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Napa Valley Growers Enlist Top Researchers To Tackle Pierce’s Disease, Powdery Mildew & Trunk Diseases

NEWS RELEASE NAPA, CA (February 18, 2016) – On Wednesday March 2, the Napa Valley Grapegrowers continues the three-part Sustainable Vineyard Practices Series (“SVP”). This session brings the top minds in research to Napa, where they’ll deliver practical tools and information, giving vineyard owners and managers what they need to protect their investment and bring […]

February 24, 2016 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Ciatti: 2015 California Winegrape Crush; A Tale of Two Harvests: Valley vs Coast

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (February 10, 2016, San Rafael, CA)   The Preliminary California Grape Crush Report released today reveals the overall California winegrape crush was down for a second year in a row. 2015 came in 5% lower than that of 2014 at 3,699,242 tons. The average winegrape price was also down, by 11%, from […]

February 10, 2016 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Enoplastic Capsule Founder Leaves €1.5 million Xmas Bonus For Employees

Wine Industry Insight received the following yesterday from Enoplastic’s Fairfield office. While the story is a bit old (Italian entrepreneur leaves fortune to workers in his will), we missed it. It’s a nice, heart-warming piece, so we’re publishing it a bit late.   FEB 8, 2016 EMAIL FROM ENOPLASTIC Enoplastic Founder, All Class Until the […]

February 9, 2016 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

The sort of wandering, vapid news release that drives journalists nuts!

What exactly the NEWS here? This is an Easter egg hunt with no egg.   Trinchero Family Estates Partners With Karen Cakebread and Ziata Wines   NOWHERE does this “news” release tell us what the “partnership” involves. Is there a joint venture?   Did they buy Ziata?   Is this a distribution deal?   Buried […]

January 29, 2016 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Mi Sueño Winery Names Vanessa Robledo as CEO

NEWS RELEASE   Rolando and Lorena Herrera Make the Move to Share Their Dream with a Wider Audience  NAPA, California (January 21, 2016)—Rolando and Lorena Herrera, owners of Mi Sueño Winery, announced that Vanessa Robledo has been named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the winery. Robledo will oversee business management, marketing, and wine sales, both […]

January 22, 2016 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

North Bay Business Journal’s Dishonest, Unethical, Unprofessional Behavior Today

If someone says they have information for you, but they will only give it to you if you promise not to publish it before a certain time, that is called an “embargo.”   If you accept the terms and violate the embargo by publishing early, you have broken your promise and violated the agreement.   […]

January 21, 2016 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Free “Wrath of Grapes” – A Happy-New-Year Bonus For Wine Executive News Premium Subscribers

Thank you for being a Wine Executive News premium subscriber. Your support has made it possible to devote time to 47 exclusive, in-depth premium articles this year. This original reporting broke the first news and continued follow-ups on major stories in the wine industry. A sample of a few of those articles are linked below. […]

December 31, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | 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

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

Distilled Spirits Council Blasts Bogus Univ. of Florida Study Claiming Alcohol Tax Hikes Decrease Gonorrhea

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Distilled Spirits Council today blasted a University of Florida study, which claimed that gonorrhea rates in Maryland decreased as a result of 2011 alcohol sales tax hike in the state, calling it “intellectually dishonest.” According to the press release for the study published yesterday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, […]

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