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A Journalist’s View Of Those Slick Emailer Services

You know them as Vertical Response, Mail Chimp, Constant Contact and more. They may be a good way to send chatty newsletters to your wine club or other mailing list, but they hurt you in a lot of ways and they really don’t work for getting news to journalists. Put The Important Items First First […]

February 3, 2014 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More

Wineries More Optimistic Moss Adams Tells Unified Symposium

In their first full survey since 2009, accounting firm Moss Adams LLP has, over the past month, laid out the significant impacts it has found on growers and vintners. In a presentation at the Unified Symposium last week, the accounting firm said that, while 45% of respondents reported pricing pressures, they were less concerned about […]

February 3, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Hotel WiFi: Bad, Expensive & Rarely Adequate

We work in digitally connected worlds. When the “connected” part meets hotel WiFi, business frequently uffers. And more often than not, it suffers badly whether you pay for faster service or not. This is on my mind having just attended the  Unified Symposium. (Remember, also, that the vast majority of free WiFi hotspots are insecure. […]

February 2, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Good Gawd Almighty! Get To The Point

This is supposed to be a NEWS release about NEW people. Instead, it wanders all around Hell and gone with non-sequiturs and touchy-feely, sorta-visionary-like things that maybe are supposed to give some context of some sort. But all it does is bury the real news and deprive the people involved of respect and the day […]

January 30, 2014 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More

Allied Grape Growers Looks At 2014’s Supply Side

Allied Grape Growers President Nat DiBuduo presented the supply side of the Unified Symposium’s “State of the Industry” on Wednesday. You can access his full Powerpoint presentation at this link. Nat’s presentation has all the details, but briefly, here are six of his 38 slides. (You can get a larger image of by clicking on […]

January 29, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Allied Grape Growers Places Its Bets On California 2014

Among other news, Allied Grape Growers has handicapped the 2014 season in the latest issue of its newsletter. Direct excerpts from the newsletter, below: COASTAL REGION: THUMBS UP All things considered, we anticipate that coastal regions will experience a mostly stable market, based largely on an anticipated decrease in production due to water/weather challenges and […]

January 26, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

2013 Direct Wine To Consumer Shipping Hits $1.57B

News Release: January 23, 2013 (Boulder, COLORADO)—Winery-to-consumer direct shipments of wine grew to $1.57 Billion dollars in 2013 according to a report released today prepared by ShipCompliant and Wines & Vines. The new report, based on millions of transactions from calendar year 2013, also detected the first reduction in average price per bottle of wine […]

January 24, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs,Worth A Look | Read More

Argentine Peso Crash: Cheap(er) Could Flood US Shelves

If you thought that Malbec was cannibalizing your wine sales, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. The Argentine Peso went off the rails this week — 16% in the last two days — and is going to make affordable Malbec and other Argentine wines even more affordable than ever. The chart below shows this week’s plunge. […]

January 23, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Pierce’s Disease Update: Symposium Proceedings

The following comes from an email received January 21 from  the CDFA PD/GWSS Board: 2013 PD Research Symposium   Last month, some of the world’s leading pest control and viticulture experts gathered in Sacramento to discuss the latest findings in the fight against Pierce’s disease (PD) and the glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS). Attendees at the PD Research […]

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

Expanding Social Media Tops Plans Of Moss Adams Survey Respondents

Social media expansion tops the list of longer-term strategies planned for the next three years by respondents to the 2013 Wine Industry Financial Benchmarking Report from accounting firm Moss Adams LLP. “Almost 70% of participants said they plan to expand their use of social media,” said Rick Boland of Moss Adams. “This isn’t surprising given the […]

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