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Can Calif Wineries Raise Prices: Ampelos Cellars Says, “YES!”

Peter Work at Ampelos Cellars and Vineyards in Santa Rita Hills, Calif sent us the following email and gave us permission to use the contents. “We have 25 acres with vines farmed organic, biodynamic and sustainable and we make about 4000 cases of wine,” wrote Peter. “We have in the first 7 months of 2012 […]

August 27, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs,Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 27, 2012

TOP NEWS Wine prices inch back up Can Wineries Increase their Bottle Prices? Yellow Tail Maker Plans Pricey Wine as Dollar Shaves Profits Turley “Jazzed” Over Karly Amador Purchase Crushpad Had Nothing Left to Spend California Grapes holds test-run of Beijing wine shop in San Francisco Threat posed by leafroll virus to the New Zealand […]

August 27, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 24, 2012

TOP NEWS Liquor Ads Win Airtime West Coast Wine Partners Still Hunting For Acquisitions Calif Bill OKs Sweepstakes, Contests for Alcohol Licensees What’s the Future of Santa Barbara Wine Country? Sweet red wine by the numbers French winemakers pop their cork at Chinese takeover HARVEST 2012 Wine grape harvest begins on Central Coast Spain predicted […]

August 24, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 23, 2012

TOP NEWS Calif bill to protect non-union warehouse workers Grape Exports to Mexico Boosted By End of tariff Survey Touts Broad Support for Current Alcohol Regulations Privatization Puts WA Wine Sales in ‘State of Flux’ Ag Groups Establish ‘Farm Bill Now’ Coalition Asian tycoon buys Burgundy’s historic Chambertin estate Chile Wine in Asia Boosts Concha […]

August 23, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 22, 2012

TOP NEWS Optimism reigns as Calif winegrape harvest starts – 3.7M Tons? Calif grape industry experts hopeful of juicy harvest – 4.1M Tons? U.S. Implications: Minimum Alcohol Pricing Data Faulty OZ: Wine is cheaper than bottled water, raise price to fight abuse Wine Group’s Kent Becomes Vice Chairman, Vos Named Pres & CEO F. Korbel […]

August 22, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Aussie Winemakers Dispute Data Behind Minimum Alcohol Pricing

“There is no clear consensus in the relevant research that a minimum price would reduce harm” from alcohol abuse, according to The Winemakers’ Federation of Australia’s (WFA) lengthy formal comment on that country’s heated discussions on the topic. The WFA’s  seven-page comment comes as a submission on the Australian National Preventive Health Agency (ANPHA) Issues Paper […]

August 22, 2012 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 21, 2012

TOP NEWS Is China threatening to take on the U.S. wine industry? Bill extends overtime pay protections to California farmworkers Calif Denies License To Central Coast Winery. Investigates Crushpad, 10 Others New Owners for Valley of the Moon Winery Pancho Campo launches broadside at critics Crop Insurers Reassure Farmers As Drought Worsens High speed, high […]

August 21, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Calif Denies License To Central Coast Winery. Investigates Crushpad, 10 Others

The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Market Enforcement Branch (MEB) has received verified complaints against eleven handlers and processors of California agricultural products during the past four months for failure to pay for winegrapes. The MEB says the cases are  under review. It also denied the license of a Central Coast Winery. Wine Executive […]

August 21, 2012 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 20, 2012

TOP NEWS 2/3 In U.S. Drink Alcohol, Beer Edges Out Wine Can You Succeed in the Wine Business Without SM & CRM? Restaurant outlook on sales, margins is clouded Chile’s Vina Concha y Toro Looks to Revive US Fetzer Wines Live with Ted Baseler, CEO of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates Marriage drives women to drink, […]

August 20, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 17, 2012

TOP NEWS Treasury Wine sees slower 2013 for wine Owsley Brown Frazier, Former Brown-Forman Vice Chair, Dies China wine imports could be 50% of UK market Crushpad – The Death of a Business Model Compliance Lessons: What Alternating Proprietors Need to Know Can Galloni rescue Calif Syrah with a $1000 tasting? Naked Wines hires team […]

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