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Shortage? Ot Not? Are Growers About To Over-Plant Again?
The most recent issue of the Allied Grape Growers Newsletter that landed in my email this morning raises…
The $1,000 Wine App: PA Pushes The Envelope of Cluelessness
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is marketing a $999.99 ‘Millionaire’s Wine App.’ Something this ridiculous is its own…
AMATEUR, ARROGANT, WANDERING NEWS RELEASE OF THE DAY
(This is an excerpt from today’s News Fetch … excerpted here for my colleague Chris Rauber at the…
Wilson Purchase Of Blackstone Winery Confirmed
As Wine Industry Insight reported in its April 24 premium subscriber issue of Wine Executive News, Ken Wilson’s…
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Geyser Peak Sale Pending, Ascentia’s Demise Close
Like an old Saturday Night Live sketch (“Generalissimo Francisco Franco is Still Dead“) Ascentia Wine Estates has been twisting slowly in the financial wind for more than two years. But that looks to be over in the next month if due diligence goes smoothly for…
Wine Executive News, April 24: Barrel Stop, Blackstone, American Wine Distr., WineGavel
Wine Executive News subscribers please click here to read the complete article. BARREL STOP SALE NOW IN HANDS OF BANKRUPTCY TRUSTEE CONSTELLATION SELLS BLACKSTONE WINERY AMERICAN WINE DISTRIBUTORS ASKS JUDGE FOR NEW TRIAL WINEGAVEL: NEW PRESIDENT BUT STILL NOT DELIVERING ALL PURCHASES This full 1,100-word…
Elder Abuse, Sex Offender Amp Up The Bizarre in Barrel Stop Bankruptcy
The Barrel Stop/Dominari bankruptcy has grown more bizarre with Wine Industry Insight’s discovery that the winery owners were found guilty in 2010 of elder abuse and that a registered sex offender with Rothschild and Opus aspirations is deeply involved in the already strange attempt to…
Bankruptcy Trustee Appointed For Barrel Stop Winery, Bank Opposes Sale
Barrel Stop/Dominari Winery has had a trustee appointed to oversee its insolvency. In addition, its largest senior secured creditor, Mechanics bank, has opposed the winery’s proposed sale, relying on essentially the same information reported by Wine Industry Insight on March 28 (Barrel Stop Gets Offer,…
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Final Crush Report: 2009 Tops 4 Million Tons, up 11%
From the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service cooperating with the California Department of Food and Agriculture California’s 2009 crush totaled 4,095,297 tons, up 11 percent from the 2008 crush of 3,673,858 tons.…
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…
Constellation Report 8-K, April 5, 2011
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 8-K CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) April 5,…
Smartphone App Monitors Wine Temps During Shipping
Few people would tolerate a wine cellar that allowed boiling hot or freezing cold conditions.…
Napa School of Music Aussie Rock Concert To Benefit Local Farmworkers Organization
The Napa School of Music’s Garage Band 101′s Aussie Rock Concert to be held tonight…
Kosta Browne, The Barlow To Build Winery In Downtown Sebastopol, Calif (Sonoma County)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KOSTA BROWNE WINERY Tony Lombardi Public Relations Director (707) 823-5935 tony@kostabrowne.com (May…
Sankey Brings Back Wine On Tap
By Jim Neal – President/CEO – N2 WINES & Jeff Gunn – President/CEO – IDD…
BOTTLESOFT INC. ACQUIRED BY MODULAR INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Established Bottling & Winery Management Products Added to Winery Software Product Portfolio For Immediate Release–SAN…
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…
iWinemaker App Provides Enology Calculators
iWinemaker iWineMaker is a unique iPhone application, which provides winemakers and wine enthusiasts with the…
An Equation for making ReTweets Drive Traffic
From Web Pro News Retweeting is an incredibly useful tool for tweet promotion, which ultimately…
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…
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…
NEWS FETCH – MAY 16, 2012
TOP NEWS Black Box Looks To Maintain Double-Digit Growth Shift in grape market impacts North…
NEWS FETCH – MAY 15, 2012
TOP NEWS Global Supply: Bumper wine crop predicted in Chile Import/Export: Aussie farmers welcome falling…
NEWS FETCH – MAY 14, 2012
TOP NEWS The $1,000 Wine App: PA Pushes The Envelope of Cluelessness Updating the Mendo…
NEWS FETCH – MAY 11, 2012
TOP NEWS Imported Wine Category Shows Growth After Three-Year Slump Glass named president of Mendocino…
NEWS FETCH – MAY 10, 2012
TOP NEWS Shamed Diageo illegally blackmails small competitor out of award Diageo apologises to BrewDog…
NEWS FETCH – MAY 9, 2012
TOP NEWS State OKs controversial forest-to-vineyard plan in Sonoma County Purple Wine Co. Expects To…
NEWS FETCH – MAY 8, 2012
TOP NEWS Online Wine Sales Need More Regulation To Protect Minors Ascentia & Gallo: Another…
Just Say “NO!” To WinZip
Yesterday, I was dumb enough to BUY a copy of WinZip 16.5, standard edition. Be…
NEWS FETCH – MAY 7, 2012
TOP NEWS Wine Prices Stay Low Because Of Sluggish Economy New@Vintank: Social CRM with your…
NEWS FETCH – MAY 4, 2012
TOP NEWS How The Government Screwed Taxpayers On The Napa Valley Wine Train Wine Wholesalers…
NEWS FETCH – MAY 3, 2012
TOP NEWS Diageo Third-Quarter Revenue Rises on Emerging Markets Wine prices in 2012, one more…
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About the Author
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. |