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No Sobriety Checkpoints: ABI Serves Up Massive Dish of Stupid
Sobriety Checkpoints are the Wrong Way to Catch Drunk Drivers Over Thanksgiving Weekend American Beverage Institute Says Police Should...
Abstinence Not the Only Path to Recovery
Abstinence Not the Only Path to Recovery November 24, 2009 News Summary, From Join Together Online Most people who adhere to the tenets...
ShipCompliant Offers Free Seminar Dec. 1
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New Book, “Water, ” Flawed By Factual Errors
My review of Water; The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon appeared in the Feb. 1, 2010 issue of Barrons.
That review noted mistakes in the book, but the review ran long and the editors needed to cut a lot of the detail in order to fit the available space.
The following includes the …
IBG Funding - Investor Update From CEO Jansen
Several investors in Inertia Beverage Group sent Wine Industry Insight the following email update they received from Ted Jansen, President and CEO.
The email is being reproduced in its entirety with Jansen’s permission.
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Subject: IBG - Investor Status Update
Dear Investor –
The purpose of my note is two-fold – 1) to provide you a short …
IBG Closes $14 Million Round, Small Investors Riled At Terms
Inertia Beverage Group (IBG) has closed on the $14 million funding round announced in December and should have the money in the bank Jan. 26, CEO Ted Jansen told Wine Industry Insight today.
“It’s been a long tough series of months,” Jansen said, “so this is a good news day for us.”
Jansen said the offering still has $3 million more authorized, …
More Featured ArticlesNo Sanctuary in Sumptuary? Brown-Forman Threatens Sonoma Winery
Sanctuary implies shelter and Sumptuary applies to frugality laws.
But the vastly entirely different definitions have provided a small Sonoma winery no protection at all from Brown-Forman’s high-powered lawyers who think the names are so similar that they will confuse consumers.
Tom Meadowcroft, owner and winemaker of Meadowcroft Wines in Sonoma County says he has agreed to discontinue …
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Here’s how an article works.
I hear about something that may be news. I learn about these through public documents, emailed and phoned tips, or sometimes by putting two-and-two together and looking around the right territory.
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WII Hiatus Due To Editor’s Trip
Sorry for the interruption, but Wine Industry Insight Editor Lewis Perdue is in Western New York State where he delivered a college commencement address to the State University of New York’s Corning Community College.
Corning is a major regional two-year school and as such is part of the State University of New York.
Afterwards, Lew met wth faculty at Cornell …
IRI/WII: What Are Consumers REALLY Drinking. Much Of What You Think Is Wrong.
The wine industry’s perception that box and value brands own all the growth categories is wrong. This broad-brush conviction may have been true six months ago, but it is not justified by a detailed and current look at what consumers are really buying.
The market is in flux and opportunities exist for those willing to take a close look at the …
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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 the wine industry.
Editor Lewis Perdue reviews …
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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. These are the raw material I …
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My original, major, investigative and in-depth pieces are mostly for subscribers. It takes days and days to do most of …
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 perdue wineindustryinsight com) and I’ll …
Moramarco Leaves Constellation
VICTOR, N.Y., June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ, ASX: CBR), announced today that Jon Moramarco, chief executive officer of Constellation International, will leave the company effective June 30, 2009. “Jon has been a highly valued member of the management team since 1999 and his strategic insight, knowledge and vast wine industry experience have helped us build …
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WineWeb Releases Customer Relationship Management Software for Wineries
WineWeb.com adds CRM to its winery services suite, with integration to its e-commerce, wine club and point-of-sale services. Santa Fe, NM (PRWEB) November 20, 2009 —...
iWinemaker App Provides Enology Calculators
iWinemaker iWineMaker is a unique iPhone application, which provides winemakers and wine enthusiasts with the most useful Winemaking calculators and information about wine making on to...
An Equation for making ReTweets Drive Traffic
From Web Pro News Retweeting is an incredibly useful tool for tweet promotion, which ultimately means for content promotion. If you are producing content, you want...
Action Packed Schedule Finalized For 5th Annual Wine Industry Technology Symposium
Action Packed Schedule Finalized For 5th Annual Wine Industry Technology Symposium Early Bird Registration Discount Ends July 3 June 17, 2009. Napa, CA – The Wine Industry Technology...
Boisset’s Fog Mountain In One-liter PET Bottles [News Release]
News Release Boisset’s Fog Mountain Introduces California Wine in a One-liter PET Bottle New Larger Sized Sustainable Plastic Bottle Opens Doors to New Opportunities PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–When it comes...
California ABC Issues Advisory On Third-Party Resellers
Unlicensed Third Party Service Providers The Department has received numerous inquiries regarding the participation by licensees in programs operated by unlicensed Third Party Service Providers. These...
French collectors pawn wine in dash for cash
Paris - One fears the natural order of things has been up-ended if the French are giving up their wine. But financial woes have driven...
San Joaquin Valley Wine Competition Holds Fifth Tasting in June
June 19 is the deadline for entries in the fifth annual San Joaquin Valley Wine Competition which will be held June 26 and 27 in...
Teaching winery opens on Cornell campus
With the snip of a grapevine, Susan A. Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), opened the...
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NEWSFETCH - February 8, 2010
New Book, “Water, ” Flawed By Factual Errors Billionaire Koch Expects More Fake-Wine Lawsuits in 2010 ViewPoint: Gallo Taken for a Ride on...
NEWSFETCH - February 5, 2010
Brunello wine makers use texts to ensure authenticity Champagne and Cognac sales hit LVMH profits Jobs to go at Piper-Heidsieck Central Valley Water Pump...
NEWSFETCH - February 4, 2010
U.S. restaurant count declines Unsold US fine wine stock returns to Bordeaux Jeanjean and Michel Laroche form France’s largest quality wine group Big ...
NEWSFETCH - February 3, 2010
California exports hit by UK decline Religious fundamentalists need to drink wine again Distilled Spirits Review: Industry Proves Recession Resilient in 2009 Diageo Offered...
NEWSFETCH - February 2, 2010
OZ: Chemical trespass in Central Otago grape industry serves as a wakeup call Key Weyrich properties go to lender in auction The ...
NEWSFETCH - February 1, 2010
California is digging out of recession say top economists IHA Report: Consumer Spending Increased Slightly in 2009 eWinery expands as industry seeks more direct sales Napa...
NEWSFETCH - January 29, 2010
IBG Funding - Investor Update From CEO Jansen Major New Study: Mediterranean diet good for the heart Frugal Habits to Continue in 2010 and Beyond Grape growing, fish...
NEWSFETCH - January 28, 2010
California wine sales drop Wine Industry Searches for Good News Champagne shows signs of recovery UK: Buoyant January fuels fine wine investment optimism Vinexpo chief sees the future...
NEWSFETCH - January 27, 2010
Texas Direct Shipping Law Upheld by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals SWA Applauds Fifth Circuit Decision Upholding States’ Rights and the Three-Tier System U.S. speeds...
NEWSFETCH - January 26, 2010
Australian initiative to asses viability of its wineries Passion for wine transforms banker into vintner Calif Storms make for ‘average’ water year TTB Targets Advertising, Labeling, and Contents...
NEWSFETCH - January 22, 2010
No Sanctuary in Sumptuary? Brown-Forman Threatens Sonoma Winery Smarter Shoppers Demand Personal Engagement Labor investigators file complaint against Fresno grower Idled Central Valley ethanol plant to be restarted...
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About The Editor
WII Editor Lewis Perdue
is a former Washington, D.C. investigative reporter and has written 20 published books. He founded Wine Business Insider in 1991 followed three years later by Wine Business Monthly. Both were sold in 1997, but remain the dominant trade publications for the North American wine business. In 1997 he became a correspondent for CBS Marketwatch and a columnist for The Street.Com. Later, he worked as a columnist for the Wall Street Journal Online before founding an Internet payments company which went public. He has also been a negociant and a wine importer/distributor. Click here for more on Lew.