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• The Granbury Backer: Wine's New Heavyweight Player [Wine Executive News premium]
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• St. Helena's Guilliams Vineyards bought by Kieu Hoang Winery
• China’s Slowdown Seen Yet to Bottom Even After Central Bank Acts
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• Ex-Oddbins boss says standalone wine retailing not sustainable
• Pacific wine agreement big win for Australia
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• WA: Wine grape growers expect third consecutive record year
• Sonoma County harvest halfway done
• Cal Convicts Do Time in the Vineyard
• Iowa Winegrower Seeing Poor Grape Yields
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• Candymaker Mars commits millions to food research at UC Davis
• How California wine is going gay among the vines
• Vintage 2014, and California declares war on small wineries
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• Wine in the aftermath of the “Great Quake”
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• Cambria could run out of water before year's end, officials say
• Expect turf battles over new groundwater legislation
• In the 1960s, California had a serious plan to take water from Alaska
• Lawsuits could bog down new groundwater law
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• Prosecco out-marketing Champagne
• Veteran Wine and Marketing Execs Launch DrinkSpace
• Marketing Tactics To Make Your Wine Store Bubble
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• Restaurant industry feels the heat thanks to digital technologies
• How to sell your brand to online retail channels like Vinomofo.com and Lot18.com *Sponsored Link*

• Office bullying plague is widespread in U.S.
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• Streaming Radio Show Launches: Bottle Talk With Rick & Paul
• Speakeasy: Fred Swan, NorCal Wine
• A writer finds his voice
• Use You Words, Whether Whining or Writing on Wine
• Gerard Basset joins Decanter as Burgundy correspondent
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

• Nanoscience makes your wine better
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

• Margrit Mondavi: A Personal History of Napa Valley
• Keith Miller: From cantor to wine shop owner
• Carmen Castorina: When a legend retires
• Inside Iron Horse Vineyards founders' life
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Restaurant industry feels the heat thanks to digital technologies

Source: eMarketer

TODAY'S FEATURED WINE

Rabbit Ridge Vineyards: Red BlendRhone Blend/Red Wine: Paso Robles-California: Allure de Robles: 2013: United States

This is what I drink with dinner when an awful wine of the day goes down the drain.

At $75/case (wine club) including shipping, this is a dream for a Rhone lover on a tight budget.

Smooth as the 2012, same raspberry/black cherry fruit, soft tannins.

Can't beat this at $6.25/bottle. Bought two cases.

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For winery tasting samples, gifts from friends or family or samplings at a party or event, review it truthfully, but only if I like it. If I have paid my own very-hard-earned money on a bottle, the gloves are off and it gets what it deserves ... whether perfect or puerile.