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Napa Quake Help Forum: Redesign, New Link

The Napa quake help forum has been re-designed to make it more user friendly.  The forum also has NEW link: http://napaearthquake.com WASTING TIME TO SAVE IT The rush to get the board up and running to help people, meant that, yesterday morning, I tried to use a third-party forum provider and that was just a […]

August 25, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Rain Offers Minuscule Improvement In Calif Drought.

Recent rains in California have had little effect on the Extreme Drought other than a tiny improvement over last week. As the table, below, indicates all drought categories remained the same except for D2-D4 which dropped about 2%.

August 22, 2014 | Filed under Daily Data,Worth A Look | 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

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

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

Rating The Rating Systems

This is part of a series on flaws in current wine recommendation systems originally published at Recommendation 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 Trouble […]

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

Winestyr, Wine Direct … Content & Serving Readers

Sorry, but I’m going to make you work a little for this one. DTC Online Wine Sales are Booming, but Consumers Need to be Cautious Why is this not a direct link in today’s News Fetch? Because there’s something in the article that shows a disregard for readers. WINESTYR QUOTES, NO LINKS The article has […]

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

Words: Big Trouble For Tasting Notes

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 19, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

3/4 Of Wine In The US Has NEVER Been Rated By Critics

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 17, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

2014 Wine Grape Crush To Drop 8% Over 2013 But Still Above Average

NEWS RELEASE From The USDA/National Agricultural Statistics Service – Pacific region “California’s wine type grape production is forecast at 3.90 million tons, down 8 percent from 2013 and represents 55 percent of California’s total grape crop. “California’s raisin type grape production is forecast at 1.95 million tons, down 13 percent from last year and represents […]

August 14, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More