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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

Wine advertising gets blown away by beer: Nielsen

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Why license appraisers? Who needs ’em? Who regulates ’em?

State licensing of real estate appraisers began in the 1980s as an effort to prevent recurrences of valuation improprieties resulting from that decade’s savings and loan scandal.   In that scandal — also the more recent mortgage meltdowns that contributed to the Great Recession — substandard appraisals and unethical appraisers produced inflated valuations of real […]

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These 3 US cities are the only ones that are top 10 in BOTH wine & beer: Portland, Seattle & Cincinnati

Source: Infogroup

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Calif yanks appraiser license from North Coast vineyard & wine property broker over misconduct accusations

Christopher Blakeslee, owner of Wine Property Consulting | Blakeslee Land Services in Petaluma, has lost his California appraiser’s license following scores of improper appraisal accusations lodged against him by the California Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers. Blakeslee surrendered his California license on Aug. 4, 2016. The surrender was part of a stipulated agreement to settle […]

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Pimping products produces prime promoter profits on social media

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Federal judge dismisses Ste. Michelle versus Treasury Wine complaint, controversy heads for mediation

CORRECTION: In a previous version of this article, Wine Industry Insight stated that Federal District Court Judge Richard Seeborg had combined the cases. That was incorrect. Judge Seeborg adjudged both cases as related but did not consolidate them, thus allowing the Treasury’s request for declaratory relief to remain open.  To the non-lawyer, this may seem […]

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Which cities have the highest per capita number of craft breweries? There are some surprises here.

Source: Statista via Forbes

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Nielsen: Blended blush soars; overall wine sales up 4.9% on 2.1% volume increase. Higher price points grow double digits

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Track the Post-Trump Dow and Nasdaq today with this real-time quote from Marketwatch

Real-time source: MarketWatch

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Grapevines are worthless in these Napa & Sonoma vineyards which you can buy for the same price as plain old dirt.

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