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NEWS FETCH – Special Edition – December 28, 2015

TOP NEWS Yao Family Wines Buys Bello’s Former St. Helena Tasting Room Gerawan Farms exits table grape business, affecting 2,500 workers Australia’s Accolade Wines May Go Public In 2016 Damage from sinking land costing California billions Hundreds of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti wines stolen at French port Treasury Wine Sharpens Focus in U.S. With Instagram […]

December 28, 2015 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Yao Family Wines Buys Bello’s Former St. Helena Tasting Room

A real estate LLC associated with Yao Family Wines has purchased the former Bello Family Vineyards tasting room property at 929 Main St., St. Helena — directly across the street from the now-shuttered Tra Vigne. The property had been among a vast number of assets entangled  in the bankruptcy proceedings of family patriarch Michael Ru […]

December 28, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

WII Rate Card: Frequency and Position Discount/Premium Schedule

Frequency Discounts 1-3 times no discount 4-6 times 10% 7-11 times 20% 12 or more times 30% Position Premium/Discount Schedule

December 26, 2015 | Filed under Uncategorized | Read More

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This is our last issue of News Fetch until Monday, January 4, 2016 unless something big happens. Have a wonderful winter respite!

December 23, 2015 | Filed under Uncategorized | Read More

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidaze!

This is our last issue of News Fetch until Monday, January 4, 2016 unless something big happens. Have a wonderful winter respite!

December 23, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Vineyards at risk (as well as most anything you eat): You’ll be shocked by this video on how the Feds are harassing a farmer for plowing his field

Source: American Farm Bureau Article Highlights Calif Farmer’s Struggles With Federal Regulators on Water Issues The following is from the American Farm Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 22, 2015 — A new video produced by the American Farm Bureau Federation highlights the struggles a California farm family has encountered with federal water regulations. The video also […]

December 22, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data,Featured Articles | Read More

National Retail Federation Forecasts Slightly Above Average Holiday Sales: Up 3.7%

Source: National Retail Federation

December 21, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Will Walmart Versus Texas Be Granholm II And Headed For SCOTUS?

By Jeff Siegel Wine Executive News Contributing Editor   Walmart’s bid to own package stores and sell distilled spirits just might turn into the next great U.S. Supreme Court three-tier decision. Top legal experts say they would not be surprised if the retail giant’s lawsuit against Texas’ booze cops — the TABC — wound up […]

December 21, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

When you can’t spend much on advertising, your sales depend on your label and the quality of your product.

Nielsen, Dec. 17, 2015

December 20, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

An aggressively stupid, Millennial suck-up headline from people at Inc. Magazine who don’t know seem to know jack about the wine market or what it means to be “disruptive”

This aggressively stupid headline reflects a malignant ignorance about the wine market and is the year’s best example of a “click bait” headline full of fluff Millennial suck-up: How This Millennial Entrepreneur Is Disrupting the $10 Billion Wine Market   DUMB: The California wine market alone was $24.6 billion last year. From which part of […]

December 18, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More