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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

81 of Largest 100 Brands Stagnant or Losing Market Share – Winners and Losers For June/July

Eighty-one of the Top 100 wine brands have either stagnated or lost market share according to Wine Industry Insight’s analysis of data from Information Resources Inc. (IRI)  for the four-week period ending June 14, 2009 over the same period last year.Stagnation is defined as a share gain of less than one-half of one percent. VIP […]

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

Disappearing Restaurants = Vanishing Fine Wine Sales?

The disappearance of thousands of restaurants could offer one possible explanation for the on-premise drop in fine wine sales, according to Susan Kleutsch, director of product development-foodservice at The NPD Group which tracks sales across a wide variety of consumer industries. VIP Subscribers click here to read complete, un-redacted article. While wines selling for more […]

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

NEWS FETCH – August 5, 2009

K-J drops $100,000 annual donation to Wells Fargo Center K-J Wines Honor Jess Jackson’s Thoroughbred Champ Rachel Alexandra K-J’s Rachel Alexandra racing at Saratoga a longshot Constellation Brands to Hold Institutional Investor Meeting Sex not prerequisite for winemaking Fresno Co. Farm Bureau honors ag journalism Democratic lawmakers introduce bills to deal with California water policy […]

August 5, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 4, 2009

Political veteran Hatfield to lobby for California wine industry ETS Laboratories & Scott Laboratories, Inc. Open Healdsburg Office Copia plan goes to a vote IntoWine.com Launches Food and Wine Pairing Tool Alcohol consumption linked to increased cancer risk NJ wine/spirits tax hike in effect UK: Wine investors benefit from Web-based trading platforms New EU wine […]

August 5, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 3, 2009

UK: Naked Chef Meets Naked Wine MA: 1945 bottle of Chateau Mouton Rothschild Stolen California steps up efforts to prevent heat-related deaths among Farmworkers Oz: Australia grower collapse causes creditor concern Don Sebastiani & Sons restructures, to spin off key wine units TTB and Alternating Proprietors Banker, Pop Music Producer Sign Up to Produce Own […]

August 4, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – July 31, 2009

Foster’s cashes up but not for spin-off U.S. may require anti-DWI locks on all vehicles for DWIs Memories of Copia, and a lesson well learned Charlie’s Guide to Speaking Wine, or, How to Bullshit Wine Drinkers Farmworkers union sues safety agency Gov’t, consumers, urged to help grape growers by buying ‘true Ontario Wine’ Fed grant […]

August 3, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs,Uncategorized | Read More

Napa’s Sutter Home Hammers Amador Wineries, Claims It Trademarked “Sutter”

Sutter Home Winery has been hammering small Amador County vintners with legal threats, claiming that it has trademarked the word “Sutter” and is vowing to enforce it against all comers. Amador County newspaper, the Ledger-Dispatch, has reporting that at least three wine-related businesses in or around the town of Sutter Creek, have been coerced by […]

July 31, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – July 30, 2009

Could the Recession Change the Taste of California Wine? The Top 10 Most Sustainable US Wineries Bordeaux: First Growths by mail Midwest: Farm Credit Hosts 10 College Students In Internship Program SC: The fine art of wine Foster’s sets up $US500mln loan facility with Asian banks Fosters Speculation on Wine Unit Sale Increases, Review Says […]

July 31, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – July 29, 2009

UK: Berberana uncorks consumer loyalty scheme LVMH announces massive wine revenue slump NY Senate Dems revisit grocery wine sale bill Goldman Sachs Added Diageo plc (DEO) To Conviction Buy List Broadbent Sues Random House for libel in U.K. Canada: Booze profits rise 4 per cent despite downturn in BC economy Financial Crisis provides France with […]

July 30, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

5,000 pot plants confiscated near Sonoma Vineyards

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat has reported that narcotics detectives uncovered a multi-garden marijuana operation just outside of Sonoma on Highway 116 early Wednesday morning, confiscating 5,000 plants and taking two people described as guards into custody. The gardens were located in rolling hills to the west of Stage Gulch Road in an area surrounded […]

July 30, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More