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Inertia Beverage Group and Compliance Leader Compli Announce Strategic Alliance

Inertia to Provide Full Suite of Compliance Tools for Both Direct-to-Consumer and Direct-to-Trade Wine Sales NAPA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Inertia Beverage Group announced today a strategic alliance with Compli, a leader in wine industry compliance services. The new relationship will allow Inertia to implement its vision of offering a full set of integrated compliance tools that address […]

August 12, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 11, 2009

Sonoma Valley Vineyard Begins Crush With 40% Bigger Harvest Grape harvest begins at Central Coast’s Laetitia New Zealand Confronts Wine Glut Boisset buys St. Helena’s Raymond winery NY Celebrates Its Own “eBay of Wine” Central Texas heat hurts grape growers NJ: Despite bitter economy, glasses remain half full Europe’s highest vineyard spins heads Oz: Expanding […]

August 12, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Sonoma Valley Vineyard Begins Crush With 40% Bigger Harvest

Kevin McCallum of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported this morning that crush has begun in Sonoma Valley with a yield that is 40 percent higher than the same vineyard in 2008. Read the rest of the article.

August 11, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 10, 2009

Sonoma Grapes: Will there be buyers? Oregon Winery sues to sell online to Mainers Constellation’s ‘In Wine We Trust’ Ad Campaign Vineyard near Glen Ellen brings in season’s first pinot noir Relief for few from western Canada fires Chianti producers agree to hold back vintage A park of cork and bottles in Paso Robles called […]

August 11, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 7, 2009

Plastic bottles reshaping the wine trade Chef’s collection moves from Copia to Smithsonian A wet winter on tap? El Nino conditions revving up in the Pacific State issues draft EIR on LBAM Worried Winery Eyes Skies – KCRA.com Napa Valley Grapegrowers get ready for harvest – and their annual party Oz: Grape growers await liquidator […]

August 10, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 6, 2009

Apple moth quarantine moves into the San Joaquin Valley McMerlot: Fast food chains add wine to menu Panther Rock Wine Company Launched by Fourth Generation of the Franzia Family Sonoma-based Foley wines purchases New Zealand wine company UK: Historic auction house joins twitter To hell with delta smelt Foggy Bridge Winery gives up on Presidio […]

August 7, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Havens Wine Cellars For Sale After Billington Defaults on Lease

Napa Valley’s Havens Wine Cellars, is for sale after its current owner —  Billington Imports  — defaulted on its lease terms to Entertainment Properties Trust (NYSE: EPR). Billington has been in default on the winery property for more than two months. A spokesman for VinReit — a unit of EPR — said Billington is being […]

August 6, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Apple moth quarantine moves into the San Joaquin Valley

The Brown Apple Moth quarantine that has bedeviled Sonoma grapegrowers has been extended to the San Joaquin Valley. The Packer is reporting that, “For the first time since the pest was discovered in the San Francisco Bay area in February 2007, the California Department of Food and Agriculture has expanded the light brown apple moth […]

August 6, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Carneros Vintners Struggles To Get Custom Crush Facility Ready for 2009 Harvest

Carneros Vintners is struggling to get its million-gallon custom crush facility in Sonoma ready for the 2009 harvest. But spring rains and a raft of yet-to-be-approved building and regulatory permits make that less likely with each passing day. Crush started the first week of August in 2008, but cooler-than-average temperatures should make 2009 a more […]

August 5, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

IBG Begins New Vine Management Transition

Inertia Beverage Group has begun its integration of upper-level personnel by offering positions to all of New Vine’s former executives. “We offered roles to all New Vine management,” said Ted Jansen, IBG’s President & Chief Executive Officer. “Two of those that we offered roles to — Katie Hoertkorn and Josh Langford — declined our offers […]

August 5, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More