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Williamson Act cuts imperil farmers and farmland

From The Los Angeles Times: Across the San Joaquin Valley, the richest agricultural region in the nation, the farmers who produce milk, grow crops and raise beef cattle are nervous about the popular Williamson Act program going belly up. “We don’t want to see it go away because it gives us the ability to just […]

September 3, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Statistics Show Wine Medals Are Meaningless

This abstract from a paper in the Journal of Wine Economics says it all. An Analysis of the Concordance Among 13 U.S. Wine Competitions Robert T. Hodgson Journal of Wine Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1-9 Abstract An analysis of over 4000 wines entered in 13 U.S. wine competitions shows little concordance among the venues […]

September 2, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Viticulture leader set to retire; celebration planned

The following is from the Fresno County Farm Bureau’s web site: Friends and colleagues are invited to attend a retirement celebration on Friday, Aug. 28 for Dr. Robert Wample, the director of the Viticulture & Enology Research Center and Chair of the Department of Viticulture & Enology at Fresno State. The event will be held […]

August 17, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

“All The Wine That’s Fit To Sip?” NY Times Launches Wine Club

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The New York Times announced today the launch of The New York Times Wine Club, providing readers and other wine enthusiasts with distinctive wines from many top regions around the world. The New York Times Wine Club offers access to quality wines sourced directly from small, family-run boutique wineries with limited production. Wine […]

August 14, 2009 | Filed under Photo Gallery,Worth A Look | Read More

Inertia Beverage Group and Compliance Leader Compli Announce Strategic Alliance

Inertia to Provide Full Suite of Compliance Tools for Both Direct-to-Consumer and Direct-to-Trade Wine Sales NAPA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Inertia Beverage Group announced today a strategic alliance with Compli, a leader in wine industry compliance services. The new relationship will allow Inertia to implement its vision of offering a full set of integrated compliance tools that address […]

August 12, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Sonoma Valley Vineyard Begins Crush With 40% Bigger Harvest

Kevin McCallum of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported this morning that crush has begun in Sonoma Valley with a yield that is 40 percent higher than the same vineyard in 2008. Read the rest of the article.

August 11, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Apple moth quarantine moves into the San Joaquin Valley

The Brown Apple Moth quarantine that has bedeviled Sonoma grapegrowers has been extended to the San Joaquin Valley. The Packer is reporting that, “For the first time since the pest was discovered in the San Francisco Bay area in February 2007, the California Department of Food and Agriculture has expanded the light brown apple moth […]

August 6, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

IBG Begins New Vine Management Transition

Inertia Beverage Group has begun its integration of upper-level personnel by offering positions to all of New Vine’s former executives. “We offered roles to all New Vine management,” said Ted Jansen, IBG’s President & Chief Executive Officer. “Two of those that we offered roles to — Katie Hoertkorn and Josh Langford — declined our offers […]

August 5, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

5,000 pot plants confiscated near Sonoma Vineyards

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat has reported that narcotics detectives uncovered a multi-garden marijuana operation just outside of Sonoma on Highway 116 early Wednesday morning, confiscating 5,000 plants and taking two people described as guards into custody. The gardens were located in rolling hills to the west of Stage Gulch Road in an area surrounded […]

July 30, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Inertia Beverage Group Secures New Vine Assets

Inertia Beverage Group Secures New Vine Assets —Statement by Inertia CEO Ted Jansen— (NEWS RELEASE – Napa, CALIF)—Inertia Beverage Group is pleased to have obtained New Vine’s assets through the public auction process. This outcome ensures that Inertia Beverage Group will be able to service New Vine’s former clients on an uninterrupted basis, resulting in even greater opportunities for […]

July 27, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More