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Penrose Hill/Firstleaf sued, complaint alleges civil rights violations of disabled web site access. Class action requested

  New York resident Kareem Nisbett, who is legally blind, has sued the Penrose Hill wine company alleging civil rights violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL), and the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL).   A summons has been issued by the court, but Penrose […]

February 17, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Relief! California 2019 preliminary crush: 3.89 million tons., down from 4.28 million tons in 2018

Entire Report: California 2019 Preliminary Crush Report (pdf) Red wine down 12.8%, white declines 4.3% The 2019 crush (including table grapes and )totaled 4,085,772 tons, down 9.3 percent from the 2018 crush of 4,506,010 tons. Red wine varieties accounted for the largest share of all grapes crushed, at 2,135,112 tons, down 12.8 percent from 2018. […]

February 10, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

When wine grape oversupply hands you financial lemons, making lemonade comes in handy

Regardless of whether the wine market is flat, declining, or ready or a big downturn, the market situation is a sour one for wine grape growers: Are you ready for the cyclical downturn in the US wine market? U.S. wine consumption drops for first time in 25 years Oversupply of premium wine, slower sales growth […]

February 5, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Kunde, Vintage Wine Estates Continue Smoke Taint Insurance complaints as individual cases in Federal court

Kunde Winery and Vintage Wine Estates  (VWE) have renewed their battle with their insurance companies charging that valid claims for almost $20 million in smoke-tainted wines from 2017 were not covered. The two wine companies filed suit last fall in Sonoma County Superior Court against National Surety Corporation (Allianz), Certain Underwriters At Lloyd’s, London – Royal […]

January 29, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Mailchimp can be a black hole of privacy liabilities for its users

ASSOCIATED WINE INDUSTRY INSIGHT ARTICLES A top litigator takes a close look at Mailchimp and CCPA (premium article, subscribers scroll down to log in) MailChimp could cancel you for violating this “Catch 22” rule that every marketer ignores Mailchimp can be a black hole of legal and regulatory liabilities that dumps all privacy compliance on […]

January 16, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Rabobank analyst issues warning to AlcBev Industry

  In December 2019, Rabobank Food and Agribusiness Research sent its clients a major research report by Beverage Analyst Bourcard Nesin. The 15-page 2020 Alcohol E-Commerce Playbook is a deep dive into industry data, performance and  outlook.   But, unlike most analyst reports, this one contained “A Final Warning to Beverage Industry Executives.” Nesin told […]

January 8, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Breaking the doom loop: Wine desperately needs AgTech to get out of its slump.

About this article’s author: Lewis Perdue’s AgriFoodTech background   The wine industry needs AgTech — innovative products, systems, processes and other effective and efficient ideas and developments — to pull it out of its current economic stagnation. To do that, wine needs more investment.   Consider wine’s investment dilemma: the top 33 VC-funded wine companies […]

December 17, 2019 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

A Bryant Family Legal Footnote – Co-Trustee of Family Trust sues Bettina Sulser Bryant & third-co-trustee

Becky Hubert — sister of the ailing Donald L. Bryant — has sued Bettina Sulser Bryant and St. Louis attorney Thomas R. Corbett for non-payment of trustee fees. Hubert, Sulser Bryant and Corbett are all co-trustees of the Donald L. Bryant Jr. Revocable Trust and the Donald L. Bryant Jr. Family Art Trust. The suit […]

November 26, 2019 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Vineyard House Seeks Injunction To Stop Constellation Brands From Using “To Kalon” Labeled Wines

  See also: original 2019 Wine Industry Insight coverage at this link: To-Kalon lawsuit dismissed, but “iconic” still all about myth, Benjamins, and grapes at $38K/Ton   NEWS RELEASE (unedited) — Nov. 20, 2019   YESTERDAY, The Vineyard House, LLC (TVH) filed a motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to enjoin Constellation Brands U.S. Operations, […]

November 21, 2019 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Ailing Vintner, Art Collector Donald Bryant & Wife Face Mountains of Debt

Ailing Art Collector Faces a Very Modern Problem: Mountains of Debt Copyright 2019, Dow-Jones/Wall Street Journal Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. By Kelly Crow Nov. 18, 2019 St. Louis insurance executive Donald L. Bryant Jr. pumped his fist in Sotheby’s hushed New York saleroom when he won a $37 million Gerhard Richter streetscape six […]

November 19, 2019 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More