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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

Hill Wine Debacle: Napa Valley Cab: $2.93/Bottle, $5/Gal

IMPORTANT NOTE: Hill Family Estate as well as William Hill Estate Winery, are not affiliated with, nor owned by the same families as The Hill Wine Company in this and previous bankruptcy articles. The Hill Wine Company Chapter 7 bankruptcy is stumbling towards complete liquidation via auction, foreclosure, eviction, and trustee asset sale. That’s resulted […]

September 12, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Hill Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon – $25 On Monday. $2.93 Today

HISTORICAL: SOURCE: Wine-Searcher.com SEPTEMBER 11, 2014 SOURCE: West Auctions READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE: Hill Wine Debacle: Napa Valley Cab: $2.93/Bottle, $5/Gal

September 11, 2014 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

NEWS FETCH – September 11, 2014

TOP NEWS France to be world’s top wine producer despite fall in exports Emerging Hispanic Wine Market to be Examined at Financial Symposium in Napa Wine As Economic Indicator California recovery at “painfully plodding” pace Gov Brown signs bill requiring employers to give paid sick leave Expand Your US Distribution – Enter Your Brands In […]

September 11, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

U.S. Per Capita Alcohol Consumption 1977-2010

Source: U.S. National Institutes of Health, NIAAA

September 10, 2014 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

The News-less “News” Release

News releases don’t have to be nauseatingly arrogant to be worthless. All it takes is the ability to bury the news at the bottom of a textual avalanche of wandering prose. This release has the usual self-congratulatory mentions embedded in a lot of verbiage that failed to address the basic question: Why should the reader […]

September 10, 2014 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More

Silicon Valley Bank’s Earthquake Assessment Letter – Full Text

This is the full letter, unedited. Colored text has been added in some places for emphasis. This article is available to subscribers of Wine Executive News, the premium online content service of Wine Industry Insight. Wine Executive News subscribers please click here to read the complete letter and damage assessment details.

September 9, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

How do you make a sponsored content link pay off?

Sponsored content links are those paid by sponsors and, on Wine Industry Insight, clearly marked as such. (Not clearly marking paid content is misleading and dishonest.)   In the daily News Fetch email briefing, sponsored links look like this:   or HOW TO MAKE SPONSORED LINKS PAY OFF   Write an irresistible headline. Use Sharp […]

September 9, 2014 | Filed under Effective Advertising,Online Usability,Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – September 9, 2014

TOP NEWS Napa Valley wine biz took $80+ Mil hit in quake: New Study U.S. Wine Consumption Expands for 20th Straight Year Fake Montalcino Wine Latest Scandal Ontario blocking B.C. wine but nobody seems to know why How to sell your brand to online retail channels like Vinomofo.com and Lot18.com *Sponsored Link* HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE […]

September 9, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Crimson Wine’s Gratuitously Self-Congratulatory, Over-Stated News Release

Pitifully bad news releases abound. Journalists usually swap them among themselves. Usually we just privately laugh … and regret that there are so many PR people who have no concept of what actual news is, who stack unsupported superlatives one on top of the other like wedding cakes with too many tiers and way too […]

September 9, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Blogging makes marketers 13X more likely to get positive ROI

Source: Hubspot

September 9, 2014 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More