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ZAP CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF ZINSPIRATION

Contact: Julie Ann Kodmur, 707/963-9632, corking@julieannkodmur.com Downloadable high res images: www.zinfandel.org/media The World’s Largest Zinfandel Wine Festival takes place January 27-29, 2011 Rough & Ready, CA, October 4, 2010. The 20th Annual Zinfandel Advocates & Producers Wine Festival will take place January 27-29, 2011, in San Francisco. This annual celebration of America’s Heritage Wine will […]

October 5, 2010 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Changes To Minimum Instream Flows to Russian River & Dry Creek: Public Hearings Set

News Release Public Meeting to address “Biological Opinion” on Fisheries, Current Water Supply CONTACTS: Sonoma County Water Agency, Ann DuBay, (707) 524-8378, ann.dubay@scwa.ca.gov U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District Joe Barison, (415) 503-6802, Joe.Barison@usace.army.mil FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Three public meetings have been scheduled in Monte Rio (Nov. 4), Windsor (Nov. 8) and Ukiah […]

October 4, 2010 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Cal Market Enforcement Denies License To Quaking Hills, Prosecutes 2 Other Wineries

The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Market Enforcement Branch (MEB) has denied a license to Quaking Hills Winery, initiated court action against two wineries and and begun reviewing verified grower complaints against two more vintners. It is illegal in California to buy winegrapes without a processor’s license from tye MEB. The following information comes […]

October 1, 2010 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Congressional Hearing: HR5034 – Live Video, Testimony, Witness List -Wed. Sept 29, 11:00 am Eastern, 8 am Pacific

Congressional Hearing: HR5034 – Live Video, Testimony, Witness List -Wed. Sept 29,  11:00 am Eastern, 8 am Pacific

September 28, 2010 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Wine America, Calif Wine Institute On HR5034

September 20, 2010 WINE INSTITUTE AND WINE AMERICA JOINT COMMENT Amendment to H.R. 5034 Continues to Promote Discrimination, Hurt Consumers, Wineries, Breweries and Distilleries On September 13th, Congressman Bill Delahunt (D-MA) submitted an amendment to H.R. 5034, the wholesalers’ monopoly protection legislation. The proposed language still grants unprecedented powers to allow wholesalers to pass anti-competitive, […]

September 21, 2010 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

TTB Issues Opinion on Broken and Damaged Bottle Returns

From a Sept. 17, 2010 TTB Email Breakage On occasion we have been asked whether returns of breakage (empty broken bottles which initially contained products) would be permitted under 27 CFR 11.32 – Defective products (see TTB Regulations). Specifically, the inquiries often relate to a situation where the breakage occurs after the retailer takes possession […]

September 17, 2010 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Label Pioneer Gordon Lindstrom Dies

Gordon Lindstrom July 15th, 1927 – September 5th, 2010 Beloved husband, father, grandfather and respected printing craftsman, Gordon D. Lindstrom passed away peacefully in San Rafael, CA on September 5, 2010. He died from complications of pneumonia and Alzheimer’s. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1927, Gordon grew up in a loving family before entering […]

September 14, 2010 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Lombardi Leaves Ascentia for Kosta Browne

Tony Lombardi, head of public relations at Ascentia Wine Estates for more than 10 years, has joined Kosta Browne Winery as Director of Brand Management & Public Relations. Contact info: Kosta Browne Winery 2064 HWY 116 N, Bldg #3 Ste 31 Sebastopol, CA 95472 Ph: 707-823-5935 Tony@kostabrowne.com www.kostabrowne.com

August 26, 2010 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

MEB Investigating 3 Wineries On Grower Payments

Verified complaints about payment issues were filed in June by growers against three California wineries, according to the Market Enforcement Branch (MEB) of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. The MEB said it is currently reviewing complaints against: Clos Mimi LLC,  Arroyo Grande Sunstone Vineyards and Winery, Santa Ynez Barber Cellars, Petulama The MEB […]

July 22, 2010 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

CDFA Lowers 2010 Pierce’s Disease Assessment

NEWS RELEASE CDFA Secretary Kawamura Approves Lower Pierce’s Disease Assessment for 2010 Sacramento, CA – July 15, 2010 – A.G. Kawamura, Secretary of California’s Department of Food and Agriculture, has set the wine grape assessment at $0.75 per $1,000 dollars crushed value for the 2010 wine grape harvest. During its June 29th meeting, the Pierce’s […]

July 16, 2010 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More