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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

Central Valley Water Users Sue Feds

Delta smelt protection rules issued in December 2008 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service are endangering Californians who depend on the Central Valley Project (CVP), according to a lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court in Fresno. The lawsuit, which names a number of federal agencies including the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, was brought […]

March 6, 2009 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Wine Sales Continue Upward Trajectory For Second Straight Month, Outpace Past 52-Week Growth by 30%

Wine sales have scored their second straight month of  significant sales increases, outpacing the overall revenue growth of the past 52 weeks by approximately 30 percent. Sparkling wine and Champagne more than tripled its growth rate. For the four-week period ending Feb. 22,, table wines sold through U.S. food and drug stores have increased 6.6 […]

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

Diageo Reorganization Combines Wine & Beer, Layoffs Light In Calif., Move To Save $141 Million Per Year

While Fosters saw separating wine from beer as the best economic move, Diageo North America (NYSE: DEO) has headed the other way, combining Diageo-Guinness USA and Diageo Chateau & Estate Wines. As part of a global look at restructuring, Diageo will also lay off 150 people in the United States and Canada, about 4 percent […]

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

What’s “News Fetch?”

News Fetch is a free, searchable database of articles, notices, relevant news releases and other information gathered each day by Wine Industry Insight‘s news crawler system. The process is known as “news aggregation” and is a smaller version of what Google News does. News Fetch, however, searches for topics of particular interest to those in […]

March 4, 2009 | Filed under Insight FAQs | Read More

What’s The Data Cellar?

THE DATA CELLAR The Data Cellar is a premium area for subscribers to the VIP Data Center. If you’ve been reading Wine Industry Insight, you know that I dig. I dig deep, hard, wide and far. What I get is a lot of data: court filings, PowerPoint Presentations, Excel spreadsheets, Adobe Acrobat documents and more. […]

March 4, 2009 | Filed under Insight FAQs | Read More

What’s Free? What’s Not?

Most things here are free. The email editions, which go out about twice a week, are free and will always be free. MOSTLY FREE, SOME PREMIUM CONTENT This site has two parts, Wine Industry Insight (where you’re reading this) and the VIP Content Center. My original, major, investigative and in-depth pieces are mostly for subscribers. […]

March 4, 2009 | Filed under Insight FAQs | Read More

How Is Wine Industry Insight Different?

FROM WII EDITOR & PUBLISHER, LEWIS PERDUE I’ve gotten a lot of solid, hard, pointed questions about Wine Industry Insight and what makes us different — how we complement other publications rather than compete with them. I’ll do the best I can, and if I still don’t answer your question, then please email me (lewis […]

March 4, 2009 | Filed under Insight FAQs | Read More

The Calistoga AVA war heats up again

Writer Steve Heimoff has some solid reporting on the Calistoga wine wars — yet another AVA controversy that has spun out of control. Steve writes, “Well, now Calistoga III: The Curse of the Compromise is playing in a theatre near you. Seems TTB worked out a tentative deal whereby the two wineries with “Calistoga” in […]

March 2, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

New Finance For The Wine Biz: REIT Money Steps In As Banks Beg For Bailouts – CEO Talks Strategy, Deal Size, Type, Location

The wine industry’s largest player in sale/leaseback financing for wineries, and vineyards — Entertainment Properties Trust (NYSE: EPR) — is currently looking for more high-quality wine deals. EPR has made recent headlines with its pivotal roles in a number of major fine-wine transactions including Carneros Vintners, and Ascentia, in Sonoma County; EOS Estate in Paso […]

March 2, 2009 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Judge Warns Conti/Charles B Mitchell To File Complete Documents Or Lose Chapt 11 Protection

Citing incomplete filings, Bankruptcy Judge Michael S. McManus has ordered MC2 Wines, dba Charles B. Mitchell Vineyards/Conti Estate Winery to show cause why it should not have its Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection revoked. McManus has set a hearing on the matter for March 23 at the bankruptcy court in Sacramento. As previously reported by WII, […]

March 2, 2009 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More