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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 Industry Insight launches major series on dire consequences of Clean Water Act enforcement confronting every U.S. property owner with special implications for ag

Introduction This preview introduces a special series of articles that will begin Monday, August 29.   The articles examine the often unclear issues, vague enforcement standards and their frequently expensive and dire consequences for farmers, other land owners and the environment.   The articles — with extensive documentation and links to regulations, laws, court casees […]

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Total Wine Sues Connecticut, Charges State-Sponsored Price Fixing on Wine & Spirits (Bonuses: State-by-State Map, Court Complaint)

Total Wine & More has sued the State of Connecticut in U.S. District Court charging that the law which sets minimum prices on wine and spirits violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.   Total Wines’s complaint alleges that consumers in Connecticut pay as must as 24% higher prices for the identical products sold in neighboring states. […]

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U.S. Alcohol sales are a crazy quilt! Here’s the latest state-by-state on what you can buy what you can buy in a grocery store.

Source: National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA)

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Canned wine is less than 1% of the market but growing exponentially. Ignore it at your peril.

Source (and interactive chart at): Nielsen

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Help your customers help themselves: They prefer their digital gear to your salesfolk.

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The Clean Water ACT versus the Clean Water RULE

By Lewis Perdue In the Beginning Was The Act When Congress passed the Clean Water Act (CWA) in 1972, it did so in the early days of the environmental movement when chemical companies discharged waste and sludge into rivers and streams. Also common was navigable waterway channel dredging that resulted in massive dumping of toxic […]

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The Percentage of Americans who drink any alcohol edges up (Still below historic highs of mid-1970s)

Source: Gallup

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Alcohol, by far, is still the favorite high for college students

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration via Washington Post

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Wine Club pioneer Global Wine Company “decommissions” itself, sources say it has been acquired by a competitor.

Wine Club pioneer Global Wine Company “decommissions” itself, sources say it has been acquired by a competitor. High-profile, wine expert-driven wine shipper,  Global Wine Club (GWC) of San Rafael has “decommissioned “itself and may have been acquired by a competitor.   The sale and “decommissioning” may have been hastened by increased competition in the direct-to-consumer […]

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Wine, spirits & beer increasingly funded with gov’t-regulated crowdsources. Here are the top 11

Source: Crowdfund Capital Advisors

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