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Lewis Perdue is an entrepreneur, technologist, scientist, professor, author, publisher, journalist, and outdoorsman. Click here for more on Lew. Email Lew at: lewis[dot]perdue[at]wineindustryinsight[dot]com

26-acre family vineyard with quality Petite Sirah and Zinfandel grapes listed at $775K. Home site possible.

See related article.   Dorothy Vassar spent 53 years growing wine grapes in the Redwood Valley area of Mendocino County, and loved working with some of the state’s well-known brands.   In 1965, she started a two-acre vineyard with her husband (who died in 2008), and gradually grew it to 18 acres of Zinfandel and 6 […]

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Women are a lot more interested than men in purchasing products via social media

Source: eMarketer

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Suisun growers move to adjust state’s crush district lines to accurately reflect wine grape values

For more than  two years,  the the Suisun Valley Vintners and Growers Association (SVVGA)  has been working to put some distance between its wine grapes and those of the eastern Solano County.   They have now begun to put their words into action with a formal request to the California Department of Food and Agriculture […]

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Martin Ray 2017 Green Valley Chardonnay, Mill Station Vineyard – Dutton Ranch

Soft, buttery. Medium body. Nice dinner wine. John Ash &Co. $60. – MM

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Black market pot sellers are killing tax revenues in states where cannabis is fully legal

Source:  State of California via Wall Street Journal.

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Federal court judge denies Bryant Family Vineyard gag order for former financial consultant

Bryant Family Vineyard’s effort to open a West Coast legal front against its New York-based former financial consultant was denied by a San Francisco federal district court judge on Friday. The case stems from a lawsuit filed in June in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in which the consultant, Lauren […]

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Burgundy price/ratings ratio blows the doors off the world of elite wine. (Hint: California also ran.)

Source: Economist Full article and astounding chart showing how Burgundy outperforms all but one measure. (paywall)

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This smelly vendor survey lacked data integrity, so USA Today flushed their stinky article down the drain.

Wine Industry Insight has previously written about slipshod vendor-conducted “surveys” that have obvious conflicts of interest and are concocted for marketing reasons.   We often get angry emails from the creators of smelly surveys on why our News Fetch daily briefing does not run links to them.   Well, USA Today’s recent retraction is a […]

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Almost nobody buys meal-prep kits or orders groceries online

Source: Gallup

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Trouble looms for the 78% of businesses who are clueless about Calif’s Consumer Privacy Act

Source: Morning Consult

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