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Heidi M. Scheid Elected CAWG Chair

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 8, 2013 Heidi M. Scheid Elected CAWG Chair New Board Members Elected to Officer Positions Sacramento, Calif. – Heidi M. Scheid, senior vice president of Scheid Vineyards Inc., was elected chair of the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) during the board’s Nov. 7 meeting in Sonoma, CA. Her father, Al […]

November 11, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Fake Wine, Insanity, Counterfeiters and Crazy Buyers

The news that insanity may be offered as a wine counterfeiting defense (Kurniawan may plead insanity in trial) makes me think that the loony behavior may be on the other side of the bar. According to that article, “During an FBI search of his LA home, agents found a counterfeit wine laboratory filled with thousands […]

November 8, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

iAm iVery iSorry for iMy iLate iReplies – Thanks Apple (NOT!)

To each of you who has sent me one of the 113 (as of right now) emails waiting to be returned, or news that needs to be included in News Fetch: iAm iVery iSorry for iMy iLate iReplies I have had serious computer problems since I upgraded my 2012 MacBookPro to the new Mavericks operating […]

October 31, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Reality Check: Global Wine Supply & Gullible Brokerage Analysts

Here we have it again: the latest “shortage” jeremiad  among the big brokerage analysts: First it was Citi (No Winegrape Shortage: Citi Report Sloppy, Based On Bad Data) and now Morgan Stanley (Global wine production decreases, says Morgan Stanley). And derivative stuff like this: A global wine shortage could soon be upon us. It’s what […]

October 29, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Use Sharp Headlines To Hook Readers – Or Else

I just sent an email to a very talented blogger who often buries some very good stuff. This is an expansion of that email I just sent.   Dear [Blogger]: You write some great stuff. I’d like to use more of it. But many of your headlines are not descriptive. You need to grab readers […]

October 28, 2013 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More

Do You have A Mobile Web Disaster?

Some people don’t check their mobile web. And they get things like this. For more than a week, this is what it’s looked like on my iPad and iPhone. Have you checked your mobile web … Android and iOS lately?

October 24, 2013 | Filed under Online Usability,Worth A Look | Read More

Rack & Riddle Expands With Sonoma County Facility

NEWS RELEASE HOPLAND, Calif., October 22, 2013—Rack & Riddle Custom Wine Services, one of the largest custom crush and winemaking companies in the North Coast, and currently servicing more than 100 clients from its facility in Hopland, has announced it will be leasing 67,000 square feet of additional space in Sonoma County. The expansion announced […]

October 22, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Zedo: The Cockroach Of Online Advertising

The ads pop up. They pop under. They’re sneaky like cockroaches. They run Flash at such an intensity that they drag quad-core computers down to a crawl. Before I kill all the crapola that they splash on my screen, I note who the advertiser is. To make damn sure  I never, ever will buy their […]

October 15, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Vintage Wine Estates Finally Closes Viansa Purchase

As previously reported by Wine Industry Insight on August 26,  Vintage Wine Estates has purchased Viansa Winery. The closing was delayed by unexpected due diligence. The news release, below, has all the details, except for the purchase price and other related data which are included in our premium edition of Wine Executive News: (Viansa Sold […]

October 3, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

The Wine & Health Hot Button No One Wants To Touch

Add these up: Are You A Drunk? And Don’t Know it? + Smaller Wine Glass Key to Curbing Consumption + French Paradox = Too Hot To Handle! Really? The French Paradox  confuses people. In a sentence, decades of studies have continually confirmed that moderate consumers of alcohol of all types (not just wine) live longer, […]

October 2, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More