NEWS FETCH - August 28, 2009
Lodi winemakers gaining more respect
Fire breaks out at Modesto’s Gallo Glass plant
California vintners keep pushing the envelope
French wine exports fall 25 percent amid crisis
Crushpad to Enable Thousands of Non-Profits to Profit in Difficult Economy
NZ: Record profit for Delegat’s
USDA chief, Feinstein weigh in on water problems
Britons Drink More Than Ever as Beer, Wine Becomes Stronger [...]
NEWS FETCH - August 27, 2009
Six States Raise Wine Taxes
Diageo interested in Moet stake
Whole Foods learned the hard way that opening a wine store in New York is not easy
Teetotaler Wins 100 bottles of wine
Diageo Indicates Worsening Profit on ‘Murky’ Economy
WTN Services & Winetasting Network Take Philanthropic Lead
CORNERSTONE SYSTEMS NEW DIVISION TO SERVE WINE INDUSTRY
Chicago auction contains impressive collection
New [...]
NEWS FETCH - August 26, 2009
Kuleto fined $80,000 for selling his wine in more than two of his restaurants
Bordeaux: 2009 could be the next 2005
Mendota: Dying on the Vine
BevMo! Selects JustEnough for Replenishment, Inventory Management
Alcohol Ads Air More Frequently When Kids Watch, Study Says
Boisset on verge of Rodet takeover
Australian Vintage posts a $123.6m loss
In China, taste for wine comes of [...]
Double-Digit Import Sales Outpace Domestics In July
Imports took the top three spots for dollar sales gains in the four-week period ending August 9, 2009, racking up double-digit increases that left top U.S. producers in the dust according to Information Resources Inc. (IRI)
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No Bubbles For Champagne, But U.S., Italy, Spain Sparkle
Sales of Champagne have continued to fizzle out while U.S. sparklers along with those from South Africa, Chile, Italy, and Spain continue to bubble. According to Wine Industry Insight’s analysis of data from Information Resources Inc. (IRI) overall sparkling wine sales increased 3.8 percent for the four-week period ending August 9, 2009 over the same [...]
Schizo Vino Sales Showcase Upscale/Downscale Consumer Tastes
Off-premise table wines continued their schizophrenic sales behavior last month with boxes, followed by expensive wines taking the top sales increase positions, according to Wine Industry Insight’s analysis of data from Information Resources Inc. (IRI) for the four-week period ending August 9, 2009 over the same period last year. Box wines selling for an average [...]
NEWS FETCH - August 25, 2009
Australia’s Foster’s profit up; wine market tough
Wine bears ‘full brunt’ of recession: Foster’s
Oregon wineries use Washington grapes
Bernstein sees tide turning for Diageo
BROWN-FORMAN Q1, FY 2010 EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALL SCHEDULED FOR SEPT. 2
UK: Bleak future for Wine Report as publisher pulls plug
Jess Jackson’s Filly Set to Face Males Again
Two German Wine Shows Collaborate
Diageo spent $690K lobbying [...]
Wine book to retail for more than $1Million
Extravagant British publisher Kraken Opus is currently working on a wine book wine that will retail for £640,000, (approximately US $1.12 million).
The Wine Opus, an 850-page book, will feature the 100 best wineries in the world selected by a panel of as-yet-unnamed judges.
Extravagantly thirsty purchasers will also get six bottles of wine from each winery [...]
NEWS FETCH - August 24, 2009
Argentinians offered $100,000 Naked jackpot
North Coast grape crop appears averag…
Gov Schwarzenegger Proclaims Sept. Calif Wine Month
Doctor Doubts French Paradox
South Napa ‘wine condos’ 85% reserved
UK: Sideways look
World’s lightest bottles to hit the market
Foam packaging giant opens wine distributorship in Napa
Seghesio, B.R. Cohn move forward with parts of expansions
Obama, Beer, and Health Care Reform
PA: Wine industry [...]
NEWS FETCH - August 21, 2009
Italian banks to take wine as collateral
Public to choose wines for top London restaurant using Twitter
Oversupply driving down prices of some wines
Foster’s Turns to Tempranillo as Climate Change Bakes Vineyards
Estate Crush provides space, equipment for large and small production
Fortune Brands Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q
Report Claims Less Than 1 Percent of Corks Are Noticeably Tainted
Research [...]
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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.