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Prominent Addiction Policy Groups Merge

High profile drug addiction advocacy and public policy groups Join Together and  The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University have merged, according to a joint announcment today. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA’s founder, is stepping down as President but will serve as Chairman of the Board. He will be replaced […]

May 1, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Central Valley Farmland Prices To Decline

The Stockton Record is reporting that Central Valley farmland prices are poised for a decline. California farmland has had a nice run. Even for most of 2008, after commercial real estate values slipped and housing prices tumbled, strong profits from many grain, nut and vegetable crops helped keep farm and ranch values rising or at […]

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

CSPI Lays Off Most Anti-Alcohol Advocacy Staff

Addiction advocacy web site Join Together is reporting that the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) announced earlier this month that it has cut all of its Alcohol Policies Project staff except longtime director George Hacker, effectively ending the only full-time advocacy effort on alcohol policy issues on Capitol Hill. …. “We’ve all […]

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

More Rooster Lawsuits For Gallo

NOTE: In the five years since this post was written, some of the links to external publications have broken.   The world is full of roosters, which means there will always be companies and products for E. &. J. Rooster (translated from the Spanish and Italian) to threaten. When it comes to trademarking this particular […]

April 22, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Marin Institute Publishes New Guide For Regulating Alcohol Advertising

Long-time alcohol industry adversary, The Marin Institute, has published a guide aimed at helping public policy makers restrict alcoholic beverage advertising on billboards and other “out-of-home (OOH) venues. The guide — aimed primarily at beer and spirits companies — is designed to help circumvent First Amendment protections on “commercial speech.” The guide is available here. […]

April 10, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Not Such a G’Day: How Yellow Tail Crushed the Aussies

Slate is reporting that the success of Yellow Tail has damaged the rest of the Australian wine industry: “A few years ago, Australian wines were the hottest around: Consumers couldn’t get enough of those strapping shirazes with the quirky names (the Mad Hatter, the Dead Arm, the Ball Buster) and the eye-catching labels. Across all […]

April 9, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

E&J Gallo to launch male wine brand

The U.K.’s Morning Advertiser reports that E&J Gallo is to launch a new male-oriented wine brand into the UK market. The Redwood Creek brand is to be rolled out across both the on and off-trade markets after some success in the US, where it is a 2m case brand. It is targeted at 35 to […]

April 8, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Gary Ramona New VP of Marketing and Sales At Antigal Winery

(NEWS RELEASE) Doral, FL, April 2, 2009 Veteran winery executive Gary Ramona has been named Vice-President of Marketing and Sales for Argentina’s Antigal Winery & Estates, prominent Mendoza producer with headquarters here. Antigal president Horacio Peiro said, “We’re extremely pleased to have Gary join our family winery and work with us in building our international […]

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

Spendor in the Grass? Laughter In The Dregs?

For people who ponder what wine goes with sacred cow, comes a web-based, wine-humor web site called Dregs Report (http://dregsreport.com), scheduled to go live at 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time April 1. The new site is a collaboration of 40 wine bloggers and writers coordinated by W. R. Tish (editing), Katie Pizzuto (graphics) and Dale Cruse […]

March 31, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

5th Circuit Appeals Court To Hear Texas Direct Shipping Law

The Specialty Wine Retailers Association’s (SWRA) appeal of a direct shipping case in Texas is scheduled to be heard March 31 by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, according to the SWRA. In that case — Siesta Village Market v. Perry — U.S. Federal District Judge Sidney Fitzwater found the Texas direct-shipping […]

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