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Lombardi Leaves Ascentia for Kosta Browne
Tony Lombardi, head of public relations at Ascentia Wine Estates for more than 10 years, has joined Kosta...
MEB Investigating 3 Wineries On Grower Payments
Verified complaints about payment issues were filed in June by growers against three California wineries, according to the...
CDFA Lowers 2010 Pierce’s Disease Assessment
NEWS RELEASE CDFA Secretary Kawamura Approves Lower Pierce’s Disease Assessment for 2010 Sacramento, CA – July 15, 2010 – A.G....
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Wine Group Sues Diageo Over Wine-Based Tea
The Wine Group (TWG) of Ripon, Calif., has sued Diageo PLC in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging trademark infringement over Savannah Tea, a sweet, alcohol-spiked, iced-tea drink.
Diageo has until September 22 to respond to TWG’s complaint.
Clos Mimi Loses License To Buy Wine Grapes
Clos Mimi LLC, parent company of Clos Mimi Winery in Santa Maria, has lost its producers license following action by the Market Enforcement Branch of The California Department of Food and Agriculture.
The action was part of the MEB’s July, 2010 enforcement actions.
The action means that Clos Mimi Winery cannot legally buy winegrapes from growers.
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Cosentino Financing Fails, Will Cease Custom Crush
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Off-Premise Sales Continue Modest Gains, But $20+ Soars 18.5%
Wines selling for more than $20 per 750ml bottle soared 18.5 percent for the four-week period ending July 24 according to scanner data from The Nielsen Company. Overall sales were up 2.8 percent with U.S. wines gaining 4.1 percent and imports off slightly, down 0.6 percent.
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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. This is only the second time that California’s crush has exceeded 4 million tons.
Red wine varieties accounted for the largest share of all grapes crushed, …
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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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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
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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 - September 2, 2010
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NEWSFETCH - September 1, 2010
Whopper, Whopper - Diageo Selling Burger King? California Crop Weather: Harvests continue Zombie Mags: Gourmet Returns To Print Brown-Forman Q1 Profit Declines 8%, Yet Confirms FY11 View Sonoma...
NEWSFETCH - August 31, 2010
Restaurant Outlook Remained Uncertain in July Bordeaux harvest starts with Carbonnieux after ‘roller-coaster’ growing season Tax beers and wine more heavily whisky giant Diageo tells UK...
NEWSFETCH - August 30, 2010
Napa: settlers found a Shangri-La, then drained & boxed it Backyard fruit removal set for Mendo EGVM Alcoholic beverage tasting to come to Calif grocery stores? Greenest...
NEWSFETCH - August 27, 2010
Bill in Calif. would help farmworkers form unions Kirin to buyout wine unit Mercian in $127 mln deal Lombardi Leaves Ascentia for Kosta Browne Vineyard Worker Crash Death...
NEWSFETCH - August 26, 2010
FDA seeks comments on menu labeling, wine calories included Wine still held hostage as Mexico ratchets up its retaliation in truck dispute Sonoma: 2 Hot 2 Fast...
NEWSFETCH - August 25, 2010
U.S. Restaurant Traffic Will Grow Less than Population Growth over Next Decade Aubert Wines buys ‘mystery’ Calistoga winery Small Winery, Far Reach The Story Behind Trader Joe’s ‘Two-Buck...
NEWSFETCH - August 24, 2010
Pot growers cut Korbel’s redwoods Sonoma Co. Deputies Destroy Pot Crop At Winery Brighter farm economy unfolding Do Sustainable Practices Make Better Wine? Republicans Should Favor Privatization of Liquor...
NEWSFETCH - August 23, 2010
Cosentino Financing Fails, Will Cease Custom Crush Clos Mimi Loses License To Buy Wine Grapes Grape Moth quarantine near 2,000 square miles Special Raisin Advisory Comm meeting Aug....
NEWSFETCH - August 20, 2010
Napa growers anticipate a late - but great - 2010 harvest Kiwi suggest selling skills to China wine industry Ag industry fires back at ‘Dirty Dozen’ “Artificial”...
NEWSFETCH - August 19, 2010
Bring-your-own-wine promos brings in restaurant customers Calistoga’s Briggs winery, brand sold Monsoon hits Arizona vineyards hard Standing Up Against Private Label Brands Granholm v. Heald and the Wine...
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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.