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WANTED: Fearless, self-driven, creative advertising sales super-heroines (or heroes)!

Wine Industry Insight and its newest publication — Craft Beverage Insights — are looking for successful, enthusiastic, digital advertising sales professionals who are creative, assertive and self-confident and ready to disrupt the old order.   Part-timers and moonlighters welcome.   Wine Industry Insight’s daily (M-F) email newsletter — has the largest trade subscribership in the wine trade: […]

October 27, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

National Grape & Wine Initiative Announces $6 Million Federal Research Grant to Transform U.S. Vineyard Management

Groundbreaking Technology Expected to Help Farmers Accurately Predict Crop Yield, Precisely Manage Resources SACRAMENTO, Calif. (October 7, 2015) – The National Grape & Wine Initiative (NGWI) announced today it helped secure $6 million over four years in federal funding for research to develop and apply new technologies to transform the way grapes are grown throughout […]

October 7, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Restauranteur/vintner Pat Kuleto sells 602-acre Sage Canyon Ranch vineyard

Restaurant entrepreneur and vintner Pat Kuleto has sold his Sage Canyon Ranch vineyard for $8.25 million, according to  realtor Lisa Sheppard who handled the sale along with Todd Sheppard and Jeff Bounsall. The 602-acre property is located between Howell Mountain and Pritchard Hill in Napa Valley, overlooking Lake Hennessey and includes a 60-acre Bordeaux style […]

September 30, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Bank says Southern Comfort a “drag” on Brown-Forman: Sale a good idea

Brown-Forman’s potential sale of Southern Comfort and Chambord is a “strategically sound” move according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Nik Modi  in a statement released late  Tuesday. His complete statement follows: “Reuters, in an unsubstantiated article, is reporting that Brown-Forman has hired bankers to seek a sale of Southern Comfort and Chambord for potentially “hundreds […]

September 30, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Naked Wines responds to angry Angels article

The following materials arrived via email following the September 28 publication of “Majestic: Angels angry over Naked Wines closing of Kenwood tasting room without warning. Naked Wines did make an effort to notify its Angels, but apparently some did not get the message as evidenced by numerous emails received by Wine Industry Insight and by […]

September 28, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Majestic: Angels angry over Naked Wines closing of Kenwood tasting room without warning

Naked Wines packed up its tasting room in Kenwood and quietly left town about three weeks ago. It failed to tell any of its “Angels” about the move, and that has not set well for those who stopped and found nothing Naked to taste. Since its opening, Naked Wines has shared a tasting room with  […]

September 28, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Handcrafted Wines buys D’Vine Wine, Brindiamo Group Advising

NEWS RELEASE Sept. 24, 2014 Brindiamo Group a leader in beverage industry mergers and acquisitions, announced that Brindiamo served as exclusive advisors in the purchase of the D’Vine Wine business by Handcrafted Wines. D’Vine Wine is a family owned importer and distributor of fine wines with operations covering the state Oregon. Handcrafted distributes wine, spirits […]

September 24, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Alcohol & How Wine-Educated is the U.S. Market? Wrong Questions!

Q: How Wine-Educated is the U.S. Market? Q. Alcohol… Is the Pendulum Swinging? A: Doesn’t really matter   Education has been touted as the answer to getting more people to drink more wine. Just educate them and they will buy more. But, consumers don’t need to be educated to know what they like. They are […]

September 10, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Official: Vintage Wine Estates Buys Swanson Vineyards (As reported on Aug 26 by WII)

Official now. First reported August 26 by the Wine Executive News premium service of Wine Industry Insight: Wine Mergers & Acquisitions Heat Up   NEWS RELEASE SANTA ROSA, Calif., Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Pat Roney, President of Vintage Wine Estates, announced their latest acquisition, Swanson Vineyards, located in the Rutherford appellation of Napa Valley, […]

September 2, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Making sense of scents and cents — Fundamental wine-by-the-glass disasters

Those of us who try to find new wines that we will like, often try to save money our vino-casino gamble by buying a glass of wine instead of an entire bottle. A lot of time it makes no sense because a lack of scents make us lose our  hard-earned cents. As I’ve written recently, […]

August 31, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More