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San Joaquin River Restoration: More Water For Fish, Less in Friant Reservoir, 15,000 Farmers Affected

The federal government will spend $400 million to restorea 63-mile section of the San Joaquin River to make it more salmon friendly. While the plan calls for greater water releases from the Friant Reservoir, the plan also calls for reconstructing irrigation canals and other measures that are supposed to make up water losses to more […]

March 26, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Activists To File Another Lawsuit Over Delta Smelt

Despite federal water restrictions that already threaten to put 40,000 Californians out of work and significantly raise fruit and vegetable prices for the entire United States, two activist groups said Tuesday that they intend to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to tighten restrictions governing the longfin and delta smelt. The Bay Institute […]

March 25, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

New Japanese Remake of “Sideways” Features Napa Valley Infomercial But No Godzilla

The International Herald Tribune reports that Sideways is being re-made as a movie for Japan’s Fuji Television,  complete with more blatant product and sponsor plugs than a Guthy-Renker infomercial for miracle ab flatteners. GOODBYE SANTA BARBARA; HELLO NAPA VALLEY “The two male characters (Michio and Daisuke instead of Miles and Jack) now head from Los […]

March 23, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

French ‘wine terrorists’ attack merchants selling foreign produce

The London Telegraph is reporting that a shadowy group of French “wine terrorists” have launched a campaign of attacks on merchants selling foreign produce in southwestern France. “French police are searching for members of the group which poured more than one million bottles worth of red, white and rosé down the drain in their third […]

March 16, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Wine’s Mammoth Water Footprint: 120 Liters To Make One Glass?

I ran across a surprising article in the Economist this week (Thirsty Work) which tells me that it takes 960 liters of water to make a single liter of wine. Or 720 liters of water for a 750 ml bottle. That Economist article was based on data obtained from the Water Footprint Network which  told […]

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

The Calistoga AVA war heats up again

Writer Steve Heimoff has some solid reporting on the Calistoga wine wars — yet another AVA controversy that has spun out of control. Steve writes, “Well, now Calistoga III: The Curse of the Compromise is playing in a theatre near you. Seems TTB worked out a tentative deal whereby the two wineries with “Calistoga” in […]

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

Purple/Sonoma Wine Company Inks Deal With Cartlidge and Brown/Greenfield

Purple/Sonoma Wine Company has signed a long term lease for the Napa County production facility owned by the Greenfield Wine Company (dba Cartlidge & Browne Winery), according to sources close to the transaction. The ownership of the building has not changed. An official announcement is expected Monday. Greenfield Wine Company will lease back a portion of […]

February 27, 2009 | Filed under Daily Data,Worth A Look | Read More

Korbel Hunting Down Craigslist Critics

The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat reported this morning that “Korbel Champagne Cellars will ask a Sonoma County judge next week to make Comcast Corp. identify Internet users who criticized the wine company in a Web forum. “It’s the latest twist in a case that could test the limits of free speech on the Internet. “Korbel sued […]

February 24, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Don’t Mess With THIS Judge!

Even if you think good law should be chiseled in stone, don’t  you dare file it that way in U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Alan Jaroslovsky’s Santa Rosa courtroom. Jaroslovsky has a reputation as a practical, no-nonsense, often compassionate but instantly-intolerant judge of those who don’t follow the rules. In the current case of Winery Disposition Group, […]

February 23, 2009 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

“Act Now: Support Alcohol Tax Increase!”

That’s the subject line of an email the Marin Institute spammed the globe with a week or so ago. It was all too predictable that California’s leading NroProhibitionist group would take advantage of hard economic times to push its “alcohol and other drugs” agenda. It’s significant that they have picked up on the PPIC survey […]

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