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PARCEL DATA UPDATE: Buyers, Prices For Monterey, San Benito & Fresno County Oil/Gas/Fracking

PARCEL DATA UPDATE: Buyers, Prices For Monterey, San Benito & Fresno County Oil/Gas/Fracking

UPDATE 6:55 p.m., December 18: Wine Executive News premium subscribers can access a .xlsx spreadsheet that correlates the tracts mapped out in the last pages of the BLM’s Environmental Assessment to the parcels sold in the 12/12/12 auction. Four bidders from Bakersfield, Clovis and Colorado last week paid a total of $104,099.50 for oil and gas […]

December 18, 2012 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – DECEMBER 17, 2012

TOP NEWS Russian River Vineyards set to emerge from bankruptcy Napa Valley Replanting Rush Sparks Rootstock Shortage Price Hikes Likely For Imported Wine Amid EU Supply Squeeze Off-Premise Wine Sales Grow by 6% Kiwi Wine Glut warning Crop insurance juicy target in ‘fiscal cliff’ deal Consumer confidence to remain fragile in 2013 Foreign registrations and […]

December 17, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – DECEMBER 14, 2012

TOP NEWS Fracking Rights Auctioned Off In Monterey Wine Country Lot18, The Troubled Wine Startup, Has A New CEO Robert Parker Singapore investor named Restaurants to increase spending in 2013 Where are America’s Leading Wine Markets? Argentina – Rocky road for the wine industry Soldera: Rorschach & (probable) resolution Suspicion Surrounds Accidental Demolition in Bordeaux […]

December 14, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Fracking Rights Auctioned Off In Monterey Wine Country

Oil and gas exploration rights to 6,150 acres in 35 tracts of land in Southern Monterey County in and near the Lockwood and San Ardo vineyard areas have been auctioned off by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The Monterey tracts are part of 79 tracts, encompassing 17,847 acres of Federal mineral estate in Fresno […]

December 14, 2012 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – DECEMBER 13, 2012

TOP NEWS Want To Sell Wine In Asia? You Need To Be There Big brands to start making money from social media in 2013 Calif economy to lag, grow schizophrenically Vivino Raises $1M From Creandum, For Mobile Wine Cellar Restaurant: pros and cons of daily deals Oregon wine sales up 9% in 2011 Winemakers should […]

December 13, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – DECEMBER 12, 2012

TOP NEWS Top 10 Adult Beverage Trends for 2013 $15 Million For Wine Advocate? Suspect identified in Brunello attack ProWein 2013: Younger Asian wine drinkers drive 5 key markets Rare hiccup for Diageo as it fails to swallow Jose Cuervo Farm employers confront ‘play-or-pay’ health care rule How Feds let industry pollute the nation’s underground […]

December 12, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Internet Boasting Doesn’t Equal Quality

There are a million ways to laugh boasting off the stage. I’ve written many times about all the arrogance and sheer unsupportable hyperbole in news releases … by people who ought to know better. This recent piece from the San Francisco Chronicle says it very well. It deserves a careful read by the people who […]

December 12, 2012 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – DECEMBER 11, 2012

TOP NEWS Beam Inc. deal more likely after Diageo terminates Cuervo talks US wine/trade deal could be a lot for Europe to swallow Facebook Rolls Out Gifts (And Wine) From Beta To All US Users Gallo’s new horizon Restaurant sales to hit record $660B in 2013 Big growth in exhibitors to World Bulk Wine show […]

December 11, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – DECEMBER 10, 2012

TOP NEWS Diageo unlikely to swoop for $10bn+ Beam Inc. in short term Parker sells Wine Advocate, steps down as editor Ste. Michelle Wine Estates Sues Wirtz Beverages TTB Fights To Avoid Being Split Up Pricing, M&A to dominate wine business in 2013 Brazil is the country to watch in the winemaking world Slave wages […]

December 10, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

You’re Only As Far Away From Agriculture As Your Next Meal

You’re only as far away from agriculture as your next meal. But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is miffed that rural America voted so overwhelmingly Republican last month and continually resists federal government regulations. Because of this, he says, farmers are “becoming less and less relevant.” A full reading of what Vilsack had to say indicates that […]

December 9, 2012 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More