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Vine Smuggler No Hero To Growers & Nurseries

A recent article on John Caldwell: “The Smuggler of Napa Valley,” didn’t set very well with many who make their living where the vine meets with the dirt. We heard from university researchers who were outraged because casually moving rootstock around can spread all sorts of vine diseases. We heard similar complaints from growers and […]

March 7, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

A Seismic Shift In French Paradox Research

The new effort by NIAAA and researchers from Yale and Harvard to raise $36 to $54 million for the first clinical trials of moderate alcohol consumption changes everything. (US Govt Asking Industry To Fund Most Of $50 Million Alcohol/Health Study) For a long while after the CBS 60 Minutes broadcast on “The French Paradox,” the […]

February 28, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Contact Forms Mean You DON’T Really Want Contact

If you use a contact form, you are communicating that don’t you really want contact. Fill in the blanks. No one has the time in a busy world. I found what might have been a good article this morning, but it was missing a headline. I tried to email the site about that. But  instead […]

February 19, 2014 | Filed under Online Usability,Worth A Look | Read More

Just Like Quality Wine, Quality News Is Not Free

I occasionally get emails from News Fetch subscribers wondering why there are so many advertisements. Or why there are some articles that they must pay extra for. The one, true answer is that without advertisers, the result in wine news would be the same as in the larger world of journalism as a whole as […]

February 15, 2014 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More

Volatile Organics: Preserving Wine Is NOT Just About The Oxygen

This blog post — Volatilizing esters brings you so much more enjoyment — reminded me this morning of a key way that the Coravin gets things right. It’s not just that it has a cool serpent’s tooth needle to pierce the cork or that it uses argon to shield the wine from oxidation. A huge […]

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

The Thrillist … Wine Missing Another Marketing Boat?

The Thrillist is a predominantly Millennial site, but still  one of my favorite sites to surf for fun, but as this typical page (below) indicates, it rarely features wine. Wine sellers may not care much for me as a customer, but writing off this market could bode badly for the future.  

February 7, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs,Worth A Look | Read More

Comcast Internet Ads: False & Deceptive?

C’mon folks! iPhone/Verizon personal hotspot to the rescue again this morning. Comcast this week is mired in speeds that are positively Third World. See Comcast Sandbags News Fetch Again: iPhone/Verizon Save The Day for earlier this week. This constant failure makes their advertising look false and deceptive. If you promise, then you must deliver. UPDATE: […]

February 7, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Boston Wine Expo Bans Direct-To-Consumer Exhibitors

While much of the American wine industry sees their future on the Internet, and with mobile transactions, social media and Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) sales, one of the largest consumer wine festivals in America, the Boston Wine Expo, is holding tight to its brick-and-mortar, wholesaler/distributor roots and has banned DTC companies from exhibiting alongside an estimated 440 […]

February 6, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Comcast Sandbags News Fetch Again: iPhone/Verizon Save The Day

Comcast crapped out this morning … again! The benchmark screen captures below tell the sad, chronic story. I needed to do today’s entire News Fetch issue using my iPhone/Verizon Personal Hotspot. Scroll down to the next screen caps to see that the bandwidth from the iPhone blows Comcast out of the water despite the fact […]

February 4, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Nor Any Drop To Drink …Looking Outside Our Bubble

You’ll notice that starting today, News Fetch features a number of books (and one DVD just for fun) on water. You will disagree with many of them. Or parts. But, as with the news articles I find and curate, I don’t select them to be pleasing. I select them because they convey useful information AND/OR […]

February 4, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More