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Lewis Perdue is an entrepreneur, technologist, scientist, professor, author, publisher, journalist, and outdoorsman. Click here for more on Lew. Email Lew at: lewis[dot]perdue[at]wineindustryinsight[dot]com

California Final Grape Crush Report – Down 3%

NEWS RELEASE United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service Cooperating with the California Department of Food and Agriculture SACRAMENTO – California’s 2011 crush totaled 3,874,146 tons, down 3 percent from the 2010 crush of 3,986,314 tons. Red wine varieties accounted for the largest share of all grapes crushed, at 1,920,036 tons, down 6 […]

March 12, 2012 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – MARCH 9, 2012

TOP NEWS Trends in wine, beer and spirit sales at restaurants Restaurant diners prefer tap water Celebrating Women Wine Producers and Professionals The secret of a great wine list? Keep it short It may be time to plant more vines The Case For Trying To Understand Wine Law Barefoot Business: How to Improve your Service […]

March 9, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – MARCH 8, 2012

TOP NEWS Barrel Stop Proposes To Sell Winery, Says Expects Imminent Offer Stop Measuring Social Media Vanity Metrics, Measure What Matters Instead Is California Facing A Grape Shortage? U.S. Bulk Inventories Remain Scarce Bud break begins in parts of Sonoma County Washington state set to auction off liquor sales rights as it gets out of […]

March 8, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Barrel Stop Proposes To Sell Winery, Says Expects Imminent Offer

Faced with a hearing Friday, March 9, to discuss the appointment of a  trustee, Barrel Stop Winery has asked the bankruptcy court to allow the sale of the winery assets. In a document filed with the court on Monday, the winery said it expects an offer “within a day or two” but only if Mechanics […]

March 8, 2012 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – MARCH 7, 2012

TOP NEWS Final Hammer Dropping On WineGavel? Australia’s Peter Lehmann Launches Major Portfolio Overhaul Federal Subsidies: Wine With a Chaser of Taxes on the Side What Winemakers Want: Moscato, China UPDATED: The Dark Side of Lovely Wine Country Wine Veteran Michael Kinney Reinvents Himself in another useful way Liquor Bureaucrats to Convene in D.C. NeoDry […]

March 7, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Final Hammer Dropping On WineGavel?

Final Hammer Dropping On WineGavel?

San Francisco-based WineGavel, a three-year-old live and online wine auction company,  has had its warehouse operation — Cellar 29 — evicted by the landlord last week, according to witnesses who said they observed papers being served by Napa County Sheriffs. The development has left auction winners confused about where to pick up their purchases and […]

March 6, 2012 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Spinning the Bottle Again … Posert & Franson … Again!

Franson and Posert introduce Spinning the Bottle Again, an updated and revised version of seminal how-to book on wine public relations  Napa Valley, Calif. — Paul Franson and Harvey Posert have introduced Spinning the Bottle Again:  More strategies, tactics and case studies of wine public relations, a heavily updated and revised version of the seminal […]

March 6, 2012 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – MARCH 6, 2012

TOP NEWS Ending California’s man-made drought Jackson Family Wines Strives for top-shelf Aussie drop Aussie wine in China needs rethink-Lessons For Calif. C. Mondavi & Sons Rolling New Super-Premium Label The Dark Side of Lovely Wine Country – Is there any excuse for this? The Importance of Brand in an Era of Digital Darwinism Peter […]

March 6, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – MARCH 5, 2012

TOP NEWS In Test Run, Friendly’s Looks To Put Wine On The Menu Beringer mass-market, high-end wines enjoy growth Russian River water conditions now declared critical’ Foley plans ambitious projects for NZ winery The Lo$t Decade: U.S. Economy Living In 2002 California water bill now flows to uncertain future in Senate Wine and marijuana. Are […]

March 5, 2012 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

The Lo$t Decade: U.S. Economy Living In 2002

The U.S. is living in the past. 2002 to be exact, this according to an analysis from The Economist based on data from the International Monetary Fund and the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). “The Economist has constructed a measure of lost time for hard-hit countries. It shows that Greece’s economic clock has […]

March 4, 2012 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More