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NEWS FETCH – July 6, 2009

2nd Circuit Upholds N.Y. Statute Barring Direct Sale of Wine Mendo Wines’ smoky taste a memento of year of fires Oz: For Australian Winemakers, More Turns Out to Be Less Vinexpo CEO Clings To Last Century, Says Internet not suitable for wine sales Water officials fear groundwater pumping could sink Calif. Aqueduct Sheep As Winery’s […]

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

NEWS FETCH – June 30, 2009

New Sonoma winery on historic ‘Rhinefarm’ land moves forward Thinking Inside the Box Napa Winegrowers shed clothes and inhibitions for calendar Grape glut seen in NY NY: Grape growers sour on harvest France’s first bonded warehouse ready to open IA: A little beer with that wine?’ Thieves Nab Vineyard’s Solar Panels Truth drought: California’s real […]

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

IBG To Dispose of New Vine Assets Within Two Weeks

Inertia Beverage Group will auction off the assets of New Vine Logistics Within the next two weeks, according to an email it sent to NVL’s clients today. According to that letter (reproduced entirely, below): “As the senior debt holder in New Vine, IBG has put New Vine into a foreclosure process and has scheduled an […]

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

NEWS FETCH – June 29, 2009

Are Empty Wine Bottles on eBay Being Used for Counterfeiting? OR: A Custom Crush on wine Boxed Wine Burger Bake-off – Because We Could All Use a Million The Jacko Wine Pairing: Here’s How City Winery Sees It Secretary Salazar Discusses Water at Fresno State California winemakers give NY grapes a try ‘Comeback’ expected after […]

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

Santa Rosa-Based American AgCredit To Merge With Kansas Farm Bank

Santa Rosa, Calif.-based American AgCredit is acquiring Farm Credit of the Heartland based in Wichita, Kansas, in a merger process scheduled for completion by Dec. 1. [Redacted. VIP subscriber content] VIP Subscribers click here to read the complete, un-redacted article. MERGER SPARKED BY EFFICIENCY, NOT URGENCY Two senior executives at commercial banks who examined a […]

June 29, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Cosentino Woes Mount, Stock Trading Suspended

Unable to meet the London Stock Exchange’s deadline for filing its financial statements for 2008, Cosentino Signature Wineries (LSE: MCOZ) asked today that trading in its stock be suspended. The company’s 2006 and 2007 annual reports were filed on May 9, 2007 and May 20, 2008 respectively. The deadline for filing is June 30. VIP […]

June 29, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – June 26, 2009

Washington state, wholesalers ordered to pay $1.9 million of Costco’s legal costs Uncorked: Beware “score whores” in the wine world Secretary Salazar to Speak at Town Meeting on Drought in Fresno Santa Cruz wineries use recession tactics as economy cools Top Fifty ‘Really Goode Job’ Applicants Named by Murphy-Goode Winery When the valley met the […]

June 29, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

June Wine Sales Eke Out Gains At All Price Points

Domestic table wine sales posted a 3.8-percent gain for the four-week period ending June 14, 2009 over the same period last year, according to Wine Industry Insight’s analysis of data from Information Resources Inc. VIP Premium Subscribers: Download Excel spreadsheet file here. Also in this Issue: ALL CATEGORIES GAIN; $20+ SMALLER GROWTH THAN MAY IMPORT […]

June 29, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Researcher Decries Parental Permissiveness on Drinking

From Join Together Online A Penn State researcher says that parents who let teens drink alcohol may be setting their kids up for binge drinking in college, but the study by Caitlin Abar of the school’s Prevention Research and Methodology Center makes no distinction between parents who simply let kids drink some wine during meals […]

June 26, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – June 25, 2009

Diageo announces new regional president Is sauvignon blanc in danger of becoming like Chardonnay? Blogging: Highlights for June 25 from VINEXPO 2009 Trading cattle for grapes Diageo (DEO) PriceWatch Alert Up To 17.04% Return Wine pundits label France ‘dysfunctional’ Lil Jon Wins Wine Award, Tweets Excitedly NY: Grocery wine sales would aid upstate Spain: Surplus […]

June 26, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More