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NEWS FETCH — February 17, 2016

TOP NEWS Restaurants are booming despite financial market turmoil Chrysalis Vineyards wins Virginia Supreme Court fight to upgrade its facilities Southern Creates New Transatlantic Division To Handle Bacardi Business Pests And Pesticides In The Gironde’s €4 Million Wine Business Farming industry balks at Obamacare costs This former winery GM shows you how you can easily […]

February 17, 2016 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

That Comcast outage? It’s not just you. This time it’s nationwide. Comcast says it’s fixed. These graphics say otherwise.

Comcast outage hits cable and internet service across the U.S. A comparison of outage maps from Feb . 15 (above) to Feb. 16 (below) shows the outage seems only to have gotten worse despite Comcast issuing a statement that they had fixed the problem.  Comcast Provided Few Details About Cause Behind Its Feb. 15 Outage […]

February 16, 2016 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

NEWS FETCH — February 16, 2016

TOP NEWS How Supermarkets Sway Wine Spending Leo Van Munching Jr., Heineken’s Empire Builder Dies Treasury Wine Estates in plan to supercharge smaller wine brands Why are the Feds wasting water from the recent rains? The stupidity of its obsolete rules is why! Champagne fraudster to pay back £2.7m This former winery GM shows you […]

February 16, 2016 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

What drought? We have plenty of water — 6 quintillion gallons — problem is we can’t get to it.

Much more at the source: Nature Geoscience via Los AngelesTimes

February 15, 2016 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

NEWS FETCH — February 15, 2016

TOP NEWS Sparkling To Lead World Wine Consumption Growth DISCUS, Wine Institute formally oppose Kroger/Southern axis of evil Wine Market Council Defines the Industry’s Latest Trends Despite falling Chinese sales, experts raise a glass to celebrate wine USDA releases new budget proposal This former winery GM shows you how you can easily get meaningful reporting […]

February 15, 2016 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH — February 12, 2016

TOP NEWS TTB muddles Kroger/Southern initiative & makes Category Management in general more confusing Negative Interest rates are spreading: Here’s what your business needs to know. Chinese market moving past Bordeaux This former winery GM shows you how you can easily get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link* WINE SUPPLY […]

February 12, 2016 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Bad news and good: Household income is still below pre-recession levels, but people are spending more on beer, wine and spirits than other consumer products

Source: Nielsen, presentation by Danny Brager – SVP, Beverage Alcohol Practice

February 12, 2016 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

If you’re trying to sell wine to women, you’ll do better avoiding boxes, cans & synthetic corks

Source: Nielsen + Wine Market Council. Get more data in March at the: California Consumer Research Conference

February 12, 2016 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

NEWS FETCH — February 11, 2016

TOP NEWS Calif. Preliminary 2015 Wine Grape Crush Report Down 5% from 2015 – 3.7 Million Tons Mendocino Wine Co. sues Truett-Hurst winery over work with Paul Dolan Federal Ponzi Scheme Investigation Follows Bankruptcy for Beleaguered Wine Retailer No Escape? Big Wine Grows Ever Bigger Farm worker education promotes government trespassing, land rights group says […]

February 11, 2016 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

2015 California Grape prices down overall, but up in Napa and Sonoma

Source: US Dept of Agriculture & National Agricultural Statistics Service via Wine Industry Insight

February 10, 2016 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More