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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

NEWSFETCH – November 9, 2011

TOP NEWS Voters kick WA out of liquor business Initiative 1183 passes: What’s next? Nielsen: Table Wines $20 And Up Continue To Drive U.S. Market Liv-ex: Parker bolsters trade ‘Super committee’ shapes the next federal farm bill OIV sets new green standards for wine trade More oversupply woes for Aussie wine industry Listen Up, Public […]

November 9, 2011 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

A Stubborn Cork. A Cheap Towel. A Bloody Mess Averted.

Wine critics who open a lot of bottles (and the rest of us ordinary plonk sippers) should seriously consider the protection a cheap kitchen towel can provide when encountering a stubborn cork. Over the years, I’ve encountered corks that were so firmly fixed to the neck of a bottle that they were nearly too tight […]

November 8, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWSFETCH – November 8, 2011

TOP NEWS Wine Shoppers: Tasting = Pricier Bottle Buys Wine Exporters Shift to Bulk Shipments Seattle’s Biggest Wine Store Opposes Privatization The elusive Chinese Consumer ‘Grand Cru’ and the Use of Quality Terms in the United States Technomic names seven leading U.S. restaurant trends for 2012 Nielsen: How Online Ad Campaign Success Varies by Site […]

November 8, 2011 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Mail WII Get: The Ride With, Work With

The following email came in today in response to “Retailers: Can’t we all just get along?” in Wine Industry Insight’s Nov. 7 issue of News Fetch: I could not let the “bad rap” about suppliers go without one our own (winery representatives) experiences and comments.  See attached!  By the way, do not use my name, […]

November 7, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWSFETCH – November 7, 2011

TOP NEWS New Zealand wine growers rely on U.S. to drink up Robert Parker admits his influence on wine world is “on the wane” Marijuana plants seeds of violence in Sonoma Wine Country That Walmart wine is the wine equivalent of cheese food Global wine community agrees system for CO2 emissions La Nina to pay […]

November 7, 2011 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Boisset/Lockwood’s Nuanced PR Release = Confusion

So what is it? A partnership? Acquisition? Both? Neither? Something else entirely? Boisset Family Estates Expands into Monterey Boisset partners with Monterey’s Lockwood The news release (below) is so wandering, vague and filled with flowery, self-congratulatory language and descriptions of grandiose plans and ambitions that there’s no way to determine what actually transpired. In a […]

November 7, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWSFETCH – November 4, 2011

TOP NEWS Glazer’s Makes Move Into Tennessee Accel Leads $30M Round In Lot18 Additional info: Lot18 Closes $30 Million Funding Ethics & The Wine Advocate: Dinero Por Nada Companies coy over Chinese gains Russian River Vineyard Frost Protection: Legal Briefs or AK-47s? Boisset Family Estates Expands into Monterey Nighttime grape harvesting Dangerous Winemaking Calif. Farmers […]

November 4, 2011 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Russian River Vineyard Frost Protection: Legal Briefs or AK-47s?

Russian River area growers suing the state over frost protection rules might wonder why illegal diversions sucking the Eel River dry are getting no attention at all. Maybe it’s because the winegrape growers have made the mistake of firing back at the state with legal papers, not AK-47s. Today’s story from the Willits News: Thirsty […]

November 3, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWSFETCH – November 3, 2011

TOP NEWS Former Eos Estates Winery & Vineyard Real Estate Sold To SoCal Real Estate Tycoon Chandler Leaves Lodi-Woodbridge Commission Senators Propose Allowing Postal Service to Ship Wine, Beer To Groupon or Not To Groupon: A Wine Country Tour Operator’s Dilemma Porsche Sells Malbec to Keep Argentine Access Future of San Joaquin River detailed Bordeaux […]

November 3, 2011 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Eos Estates Winery & Vineyard Real Estate Sold To Southern California Real Estate Tycoon

Entertainment Properties Trust (NYSE: EPR) has sold the former Eos Estate Winery facility and the accompanying 60-acre vineyard to a newly formed, secretive Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) backed by an Iranian-American immigrant born into poverty who raised himself by his bootstraps and built a sprawling, successful real-estate empire in Southern California. EOS  STRUGGLING FOR YEARS […]

November 3, 2011 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More