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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

The Worst News News Release Of The Year (So Far)

A few days ago, writer friend and long-time colleague Paul Franson emailed me to say that I should devote some attention in News Fetch to news releases with LONG HEADLINES IN ALL CAPS. And then yesterday, along comes the news release below that is so bad in so many ways that it gets its own […]

September 14, 2011 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More

Summer 2011 Sales Trend May Indicate Double-Dip Wine Recession

Wine sales for the summer of 2011 have been trending downward in both dollar and case volume. This is in stark contrast with the same periods over the summer of 2010 when sales — in both dollar and case volume — showed an upward trend as the economy began to improve. Wine Executive News subscribers […]

September 14, 2011 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Wine Sales Eke Out Gains, But Trouble May Be On The Horizon

Total off-premise wine sales rose 2.7%  for the four-week period ending Aug. 20,  according to The Nielsen Company. Domestic wines showed a 4.6% increase and imports dropped 1.9%. And while any growth is positive, a closer look at data shows that sales have been trending lower this summer in direct opposition to last summer’s month-to-month […]

September 14, 2011 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWSFETCH – September 13, 2011

TOP NEWS Treasury Begins Reorganization With Naming Of New Rosemount MD US poverty rate climbs to 15.1%, highest in 18 years Dr Richard Smart defends stance on organics SJValley growers benefit from Moscato’s hip hop popularity US spends more time on Facebook than any other site: Nielsen TTB Takes Position on Information to Be Included […]

September 13, 2011 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWSFETCH – September 12, 2011

TOP NEWS Consumers buying less expensive wines Legal Sea Foods Boosts Wine Sales, Bev Alcohol Takes 20% Of Business Bacchus Blindsided By Rabobank “Douche-Bag Maneuver” Calif Bill to Ban Self-Serve Alcohol Sales on Gov’s Desk Nielsen Social Media Report: Spending Time, Money and Going Mobile “The stink bug is undoing 40 years of integrated pest […]

September 12, 2011 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWSFETCH – September 9, 2011

TOP NEWS Rabobank’s “Douche-Bag Maneuver” In Olsen Chapter 11 Sonoma Valley Portworks acquired Restaurant sales expectations plummet for August OpenTable Stock Drops After Google Acquires Zagat Yelp Fires Back: We Have More Reviews Than Zagat SymphonyIRI: Brand Loyalty Remains Strong Despite Economic Upheaval China becomes Australia’s third largest export market Napa River To Get Aggressive […]

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

Bacchus Blindsided By Rabobank “Douche-Bag Maneuver”

From the moment that Willamette Valley grower Olsen Agricultural Enterprises (“Olsen Ag”) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Rabobank, its main secured lender, pressed for a quick liquidation of the company — something which would have immediately destroyed the business and left all its other creditors out in the cold. Bacchus Capital stepped in with […]

September 9, 2011 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWSFETCH – September 8, 2011

TOP NEWS Ukiah winery of accused of discrimination Caveat Emptor: Mondo Cellars to sell shares to wine club members Millennial generation’s diversity will shape foodservice Parker’s Fake Wine Follies Let’s Regulate Marijuana Like Wine? Economy in West shows some signs of life, says Federal Reserve Run! Hide! Buy Gold! Double-Dip Is Coming! No? Wait? Maybe? […]

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

Run! Hide! Buy Gold! Double-Dip Is Coming! No? Wait? Maybe?

I missed economist & professor Mike Vespeth’s piece on this subject  just hours after the  September 2 News Fetch in which I aggregated a current set of competing and mutually contradictory opinions by economists on whether or not a double-dip recession was inevitable. Mike’s piece — No Double Dip Here —  says, in part: “A […]

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

Caveat Emptor: “Mondo Cellars selling ownership shares to its club members”

Thanks to the Great Recession, wineries and everyone else for that matter have been scrambling for financing. Crushpad’s innovative crowdsourcing syndication back in June spurred imaginations of all sorts, including many who raised their concerns about crowdsourcing and securities laws. A closer look at Crushpad showed a helluva lot of lawyering and attention being paid […]

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