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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

Mobius Painter Adversaries To Battle Over Competing Plans

Following a contentious confirmation hearing on the Mobius Painter/Winery Disposition Group (WDG) reorganization plan, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Alan Jaroslovsky has scheduled a continuation to begin at 10 a.m., March 26 in the Santa Rosa courtroom. The full text (1,282 words) of this article is available here to subscribers of the VIP Content Center. Click here […]

March 16, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Experienced Voices Address Water-To-Wine Issue

On Friday March 6, Wine Industry Insight published a sort piece asking for reader input on an Economist article about how much water it takes to produce a glass of wine (Wine’s Mammoth Water Footprint: 120 Liters To Make One Glass?). The many responses we received from so many highly experienced people shows how wonderful […]

March 16, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Data Cellar FAQ #1 – What Is It? How Does It Work?

The Data Cellar is where Wine Industry Insight source documents for articles are stored whether they are referenced directly in an article or not. If they are referenced in an article, the link goes to Data Cellar and is premium content. If your browser doesn’t remember your user name and password for you, then just […]

March 14, 2009 | Filed under Insight FAQs | Read More

Illinois Direct Shipping Could Raise Up to $3 Million/Year in Taxes – SWRA

Direct shipping advocate, Specialty Wine Retailers Association (SWRA), said that State House Bill 2462 would raise between $1 million and $3 million annually through payment of state sales tax and fees for the permit required to ship wine into the state. The SWRA sais that Illinois wine sales represented 5.5% of the $30 billion of […]

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

Peter Duff, Wife Die Together At Zurich Euthanasia Clinic

Peter Duff, Executive Vice President of the International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC), cofounder of the UK Wine Guild and founder of Alcohol in Moderation and his wife Penelope (Penny) both ended their battle against terminal cancer at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich, Switzerland. Peter Duff was 80, Penelope, 70. In an email to Wine […]

March 11, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

February Brand Wine Sales Winners And Losers

Of the largest 100 brands (by total dollar sales), box and value-priced wines remained as sales growth winners in February, 2009 according to a Wine Business Insight analysis of data from Information Resources, Inc. (IRI). Boxes from Delicato, Carlo Rossi and Vendage took first, second and sixth places with percent sales gains of 109.8, 100.5 […]

March 11, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Cruvee/Scrugy Merge Online Wine Data Services

Cruvee which monitors and analyzes social media information  for wineries, has acquired competitor,  scrugy.com, an online  aggregator of tasting notes, reviews, wineries and  wine blogs. scrugy.com founder James Jory joins Cruvee as VP Technology

March 9, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Vinography Takes Top Honors At 2009 American Wine Blog Awards

Vinography has taken ” Best Overall” honors in the 2009 American Wine Blog Awards produced by Tom Wark, publisher of FERMENTATION: The Daily Wine Blog. Vinography also took top honors in the “Best Wine Writing On a Blog” category. Other winners included: Best Graphics or Presentation: The Good Grape Best Single Subject Blog: Lenndevours Best […]

March 9, 2009 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Wine’s Mammoth Water Footprint: 120 Liters To Make One Glass?

I ran across a surprising article in the Economist this week (Thirsty Work) which tells me that it takes 960 liters of water to make a single liter of wine. Or 720 liters of water for a 750 ml bottle. That Economist article was based on data obtained from the Water Footprint Network which  told […]

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

California Bureaucrats Make Water Rights Grab

The California Water Resources Control Board  (WRCB) has notified more than 7,000 water rights owners that it may seize their water this year. This is the first time since 1988 that such notices were sent. The WRCB mailed notices last week to every city and farm with state water rights in central and northern California […]

March 6, 2009 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More