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NEWS FETCH – April 14, 2009

Delta farmers sue to block Delta canal plan Lawsuits flow like water Yarra winery bounces back from heat, fires Cornell grape system adopted on West coast Wine shipping bill advances in Tennessee Senate Temecula: Encouraging sips; Discouraging Drunks Napa winery cultivates hope Spanish-language dirt workshop Brazilian wineries focus on quality, not quantity Big Apple wine […]

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NEWS FETCH – April 13, 2009

BYOB on rise at restaurants hit hard by recession Central Coast Winery Project Snared in Mortgage Fraud Claims NVV’S KORNELL SCOLDS LOUER Under new ownership, Mondavi wines aren’t what they used to be New Trend? Wine Direct From Tank To Consumer Napa Crops drop in value, but not in price Emerging Market, India – Domestic […]

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Wine Brand Winners and Losers For March

Data from Information Resources Inc. (IRI) shows that the four-week period ending March 22 brutalized a host of well-known names, leaving such formerly hot brands as Robert Mondavi, Turning Leaf, Smoking Loon, Gallo Family Vineyards and Pepperwood Grove with dollar sales declines of 20 to 40 percent. On the positive side, Wine Industry Insight’s custom […]

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NEWS FETCH FOR April 10, 2009

States Serving Up Alcohol Taxes to Patch Budgets, Pay for Treatment Got Sheep? King Estate Winery wants 200 more Willamette Valley Vineyards annual net income drops 58% Constellation Brands’ Andy Berk to retire NY Sustainable Program Moves To Washington State Cosentino Signature Wines slides on debt woe – South Livermore Session to Discuss Definition of […]

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Marin Institute Publishes New Guide For Regulating Alcohol Advertising

Long-time alcohol industry adversary, The Marin Institute, has published a guide aimed at helping public policy makers restrict alcoholic beverage advertising on billboards and other “out-of-home (OOH) venues. The guide — aimed primarily at beer and spirits companies — is designed to help circumvent First Amendment protections on “commercial speech.” The guide is available here. […]

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GoBYO Helps Diners Find Corkage-Friendly Dining

A new website, GoBYO.com says that more than 15,000 restaurants in ten major regions permit customers to bring their own wine. The site surveyed dining establishments in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Southeast Florida and Washington/Baltimore and now offers an online database where consumers can search for BYO-friendly spots. […]

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Cosentino Defaults On Loan Interest, Says Current Banks Won’t ReFi

Napa Valley’s Cosentino Signature Wines said it is in talks with third parties over a refinancing of its $18 million debt facility after the company’s main lenders indicated that they were unlikely to be able to restructure the finance facilities. (Continued in VIP subscriber center.) Subscribe now, get this article and everything else on the […]

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On Wine: Price is just one reason for Costco’s booming wine biz

According to the  Seattle P-I, “Costco Wholesale, the Seattle-area-based discount shopping club, is now the largest retailer of wine in the country. With 290 stores in the United States, 400 worldwide, Costco has become the $600 million wine gorilla loved by consumers and suppliers and feared by other retailers. “To put that figure into perspective, […]

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Not Such a G’Day: How Yellow Tail Crushed the Aussies

Slate is reporting that the success of Yellow Tail has damaged the rest of the Australian wine industry: “A few years ago, Australian wines were the hottest around: Consumers couldn’t get enough of those strapping shirazes with the quirky names (the Mad Hatter, the Dead Arm, the Ball Buster) and the eye-catching labels. Across all […]

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Feds Push California To Ban Russian River Water For Frost Protection

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)  has called for an immediate ban on the use of Russian River water for frost protection. In a recent letter to the California Water Resources Control Board (WRCB), NMFS official Steven A. Edmondson cited two 2008 fish kills as examples of why he feels emergency action is required. “Last […]

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