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Run! Hide! Buy Gold! Double-Dip Is Coming! No? Wait? Maybe?

I missed economist & professor Mike Vespeth’s piece on this subject  just hours after the  September 2 News Fetch in which I aggregated a current set of competing and mutually contradictory opinions by economists on whether or not a double-dip recession was inevitable. Mike’s piece — No Double Dip Here —  says, in part: “A […]

September 8, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Caveat Emptor: “Mondo Cellars selling ownership shares to its club members”

Thanks to the Great Recession, wineries and everyone else for that matter have been scrambling for financing. Crushpad’s innovative crowdsourcing syndication back in June spurred imaginations of all sorts, including many who raised their concerns about crowdsourcing and securities laws. A closer look at Crushpad showed a helluva lot of lawyering and attention being paid […]

September 7, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Direct-To-Consumer Database Start-Up Gets $1.3 Million in Funding,

“The wine industry today is similar to what I saw in the specialty retail catalog industry 30 years ago,” said Pat Connolly, Vintners’ Alliance’s co-founder. COMPANY NEWS RELEASE,  September 6, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO —  Vintners’ Alliance, a marketing technology and database provider for super-premium wineries said it has received $1.3 Million Series A round of […]

September 6, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Heading to Napa for the Sonoma Wine Auction

We’re headed to Napa to escape the Sonoma Wine auction tourist jams. For locals,  the event means more tourists than ever, stopping in the middle of the road to take a picture of every damned grapevine in sight … and drinking way more than usual which is usually way more than they should. Makes going […]

September 3, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

UC Davis Study Finds Federal Program Has Significant Effect on Wine Market

News Release August 31, 2011 Sacramento, Calif. – Today, the University of California Agricultural Issues Center released an economic study which finds that use of the federal drawback program expanded rapidly over the past decade, resulting in significant movement in bulk wine supply and prices for California winegrapes. However, determining whether the drawback program is […]

August 31, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Pepi: A Winery Web Site Gone Horribly, Horribly Wrong

Winery web sites at their very fundamental level, should provide visitors with information about the winery, the wines, people, and everything else about the operation and the product. But sometimes, somebody loses sight of all that. They let designers go wild, fail to establish goals for the site or lose sight of  every rule of […]

August 30, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Marsupial Melee Ends: Casella & Wine Group Shake Hands, Move On

Yellow Tail maker Casella Wines and The Wine Group have reached a confidential agreement in their 10-month marsupial melee. At the two parties request, New York Federal District Court Judge Richard M. Berman dismissed the case on Wednesday. Casella Wines Ltd. charged that Wine Group’s Little Roo and Kanga Reserve violated the Yellow tail trademark. […]

August 19, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Pinnacle Vineyards Buys 43% Of Donati Family Vineyards

Approximately 43% of Donati Family Vineyards — 444 acres — has been sold to Doug Circle, Principal of Pinnacle Vineyards, LLC according to a news release from Zepponi & Company which served as advisor on the deal. No brand or winery-related assets were included in the transaction and financial terms were not disclosed. The 1,024-acre […]

August 16, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

More Details On Russian River Vineyards Bankruptcy

News Fetch subscribers got the first look yesterday at the unfortunate Chapter 11 of Russian River Vineyards. And today’s readers of the Press Democrat woke up to the fine reporting of Cathy Bussewitz who conducted interviews with winery Managing Partner Chris O’Neill and investment specialist Mario Zepponi. Among their significant quotes: O’NEILL: “When we took […]

August 16, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Everything That’s Wrong in Wine Writing: In One Sentence

“The wine starts off tightly citrus in the glass and then unwinds into a floral arrangement like something by Provençal painter Louis Janse van Rensburg, as it slowly warms up.” This über-grandiose, über-snobby shard of vino-babble illustrates the nauseating depths to which wine writing all too often sinks. Strap on your little white barf bag […]

August 14, 2011 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More