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Treasury Wine bulks up with luxury brands, inches away from plonk. And masstige (Masstige?!?)

Source: TWE FY15 Full Year Results Investor Presentation

August 27, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Handmade? Craft? Limited edition? Artisan? Buzzwords have purchasing impact. Which ones are most powerful?

Source: Harris Poll

August 26, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Wine Mergers & Acquisitions Heat Up

Rumors and other information about the following pending acquisitions have been filling Wine Industry Insight’s email in-box for more that three weeks now. WII has been unable to formally confirm these with the principals involved, so the ultimate outcomes may differ from what is known now. However, multiple highly-placed sources say that at least two […]

August 26, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Health studies on alcohol skyrocket, but very few on pot. Legal weed data scarce.

Source: Nature

August 25, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Wine & spirits go to pot in Colorado. Symposium to look at market effects of legal weed.

A preview from “Share of Buzz From a Colorado Perspective” to be presented at the 24th annual Wine Industry Financial Symposium by Jim Smith, Director, Government and Community Affairs, Republic National Distributing Company Smith: “After 12 years of Medical Cannabis in Colorado we are just now starting to understand the impact on beverage alcohol . […]

August 24, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

USA Trade Tasting Exhibitor Space 75% Sold, 3rd Day Added To Accommodate Trade

NEWS RELEASE New York, NY August 24, 2015 – Registrations to the USA Trade Tasting (USATT) are now 75% sold out. In addition, the show has added a third day. Originally scheduled for March 21-22, the Conference portion of the show will be moved to March 23, 2016 so that space previously allotted to it […]

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

CORRECTION: The massive Central Valley subsidence: is Actually a LOT Worse Than 10 Feet!

CORRECTION: The massive Central Valley subsidence: is Actually a LOT Worse Than 10 Feet! Yesterday’s Daily Data had the right number in mind but the wrong graphic. The NASA subsidence image used yesterday was only for eight months: May 2014-January 2015. Actually, the worst subsidence measured was for 1926-1977 and about 28 feet  (more than […]

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

Groundwater over-pumping has caused some parts of Calif to sink 10 FEET or more!

Source: NASA via LA Times

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

VinoPRO Makes Inc. Magazine 500|5000 in the U.S. for third straight year

This article presented by our sponsor, VinoPRO FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Santa Rosa, CA – August 18, 2015 – Inc. Magazine announced today that VinoPRO, a rapidly expanding Santa Rosa, California-based direct-to-consumer wine sales, marketing and technology company, has made the Inc.500|5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. for the third straight […]

August 19, 2015 | Filed under Presented By | Read More

Reports That Oakland Port Labor Fiasco Is Over: “A Lie” Say Wine Country Shippers

Despite  some reports that the Port of Oakland fiasco has ended, a number of angry wine country shippers, their customers and others say that is simply not true. “It’s a lie,” said George Francis, the owner of Billet Transportation who hauls for a wide number of customers including Barrel Builders, Taransaud, and Francis Frere among […]

August 19, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More