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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

Vineyards = Ugly Environmental Disasters Says L.A. County

  The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is set to steamroll through a plan that would prohibit new vineyards in the Santa Monica Mountains. This comes just weeks after the federal government established the Malibu Coast American Viticultural Area (AVA). Vineyards are the only current agricultural use being banned. The vineyard prohibition is included […]

August 21, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

L.A. Vineyards: Spat, Snit, Snot (Opinion)

This is the second in a three-article series: Why Does Los Angeles Hate Grapevines? OPINION: L.A. Grape Spat: Credibility Crisis and Elitism L.A. County Lists Staggering Number of Uses Permitted in Santa Monica Mountains SNIT This controversy has all the hallmarks of a governmental snit. I’ve sensed all these foul smells both as a journalist […]

August 21, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

L.A. County Lists Staggering Number of Uses Permitted in Santa Monica Mountains

This is a sidebar in a three-article series: Why Does Los Angeles Hate Grapevines? OPINION: L.A. Grape Spat: Credibility Crisis and Elitism L.A. County Lists Staggering Number of Uses Permitted in Santa Monica Mountains People with a resistance to falling asleep and infinite patience with badly constructed public documents may access available documents in this […]

August 21, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Millennials Trust User-Generated Content 50% More Than Other Media

Source: Ipsos Millennial Social Influence Study via Mashable

August 21, 2014 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 21, 2014

TOP NEWS Treasury Wine plunges into red amid takeover battle A Breather in California’s High-Speed Harvest Water bond measure is a bad deal for North Coast Calif Economic Collision Course: Immigration and Water Border Crisis Not Helping US Farmers How to Sell Your Brand To Online Retail Channels **Sponsored Link* HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY European […]

August 21, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Coldani Olive Ranch Acquires Lodi Olive Oil Company

NEWS RELEASE August 21, 2014 LODI, CA, August 19, 2014 – Coldani Olive Ranch, an olive oil company based in Lodi California and producers of their Calivirgin line of olive oils, recently added local favorite Lodi Olive Oil Company to their portfolio. This announcement comes just months before the 2014 olive harvest. Lodi Olive Oil […]

August 21, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

99% of organic social posts create almost no engagement (But hang on, there’s an upside)

Source:  VentureBeat From: VentureBeat — ‘Businesses should not jump to the conclusion that social media marketing isn’t working, however. As with marketing to the “long tail,” businesses that do moderately well with social posts could get great results, and companies should not be put off by the findings, says SocialFlow CEO Jim Anderson.’ ‘ “The […]

August 20, 2014 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Taste Profiling – Organoleptic Breakdown

A PERSONAL NOTE: My apologies in advance to a number of good friends and colleagues who are still trying to get wine profile systems to work.   But, as you read on, my hands-on experience and further research leads me to believe that the system has inherent problems that will prevent it from reaching the […]

August 20, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

How Big Is A Dog?

In most of the classes I have taught at Cornell or UCLA, I’ve illustrated the individual perceptions of words by asking students to close their eyes (yes I look for cheaters) and hold out their hands to indicate how big the word  “dog” means to them. When they open their eyes, they see hands ranging […]

August 20, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Vino-Anxiety, Stress and Social Pressure Sabotage Wine Choice

This is part of a series on flaws in current wine recommendation systems originally published at Wine Industry Insights: The Problem: Welcome To The Vino Casino And Wine’s Shaky Core Genetics: Inherited Taste Chaos Sabotages How Wine Gets Recommended Scaling: 3/4 Of Wine In The US Has NEVER Been Rated By Critics Misinterpretation: Words: Big […]

August 20, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More