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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

Could ship-to-store purchases be the future of direct wine sales?

Ship-to-Store now attracts two in five US digital buyers Source:  UPS & eMarketer

August 11, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

How by-the-glass wine sales can trash your reputation

Lately, I’ve had some really awful glasses of what might actually be decent wine. And they were all by-the-glass at places that should know better. Like ordinary consumers, by-the-glass is a great opportunity to try new wines without having to buy a whole bottle. But mishandling wines sold by the glass by a restaurant or bar […]

August 11, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Check out the incredibly small amount of land Calif needs to rank as America’s #1 ag producer

Calif is America’s #1 agricultural producing state. And is 33rd in the percentage of land devoted to cropland and 16th on overall acreage. Source: USDA: Land use ranking by state. This is an interactive map, so click on California when you land.

August 10, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Digging into the U.S. farm balance sheet: in the red or black?

 Source: USDA/ERS

August 9, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

My $100 Wine Lesson: Sometimes rogue wine calibration bites you in the … glass

Call this my $100 lesson. Those of you who have followed my mishaps in trying to buy wine like the average consumer are familiar with the Vino Casino and how the House odds are massively stacked against the consumer (THE PROBLEM: Casino Recommendations). If you followed that, you know that I believe the inability to […]

August 9, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Making sense of the massive Rocky Fire in Lake County

Rocky Fire: Way bigger than all of San Francisco, about half the size of Lake Tahoe Source: SF Chronicle

August 6, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Je Suis Hosemaster: Save your sense of humor (and money) #NoRiedel.

So, I am hoping that Tim Atkin and Ron Washam don’t sue me for copyright violation, but I am reprinting this so that the humorless law-droids for the even more humorless George Riedel will have another target to shoot at. Why? Because the maker of over-priced wine glasses has no sense of humor, no idea […]

August 6, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Rocky Fire Impacting Lake CountyReal Estate Transactions

The following is from a mass emailing from the Lake County Association of Realtors “There are three things I would like to cover regarding the Rocky Fire’s affect on the real estate community: “1) Insurance Moratorium – Several agents have reported that closings are being affected because an insurance moratorium has been put into place […]

August 6, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Ultra-Premium Vintner Genius Wines In Chapt 7 Liquidation, Online Auction Set

Note: This is part 1 of a 2-part series. The bankruptcy of a high-end, yet never-profitable boutique Sonoma County vintner has left behind a trail of lawsuits, broken relationships, anger and frustration among a once-tight group of Canadian citizens, one of whom remains the owner of a prized, ultra-premium Chalk Hill AVA vineyard near Healdsburg. […]

August 6, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

A $15 minimum wage might be $12 or $20 – It all depends on where you live.

Source: Pew Research Center

August 5, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More