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Ad blocking: A self-inflicted wound by advertisers who continue to abuse web visitors

Ad blocking software has been prominent in the news recently as highlighted by a recent New York Times article: The cost of mobile ads. You may also scroll down for a list of other recent articles. Apple’s inclusion of its own ad blocking app included in the most recent release of iOS 9 has also […]

October 2, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Napa Valley Wine Train lawsuit – legal summary and complaint document

The following are selected excerpts from the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco on October 1. No court response has been made yet by the Napa Valley Wine Train which issued a brief statement via crisis-management public relations firm Singer Associates. The full, 21-page complaint is […]

October 2, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Wine.com’s patent troll lawsuit a potential problem for rest of industry

By virtue of having been around since the early days of Internet wine sales, Wine.com, Inc. has faced year after year of travails. It made huge progress back in April of this year when a Delaware chancery court approved Wine.com’s efforts to clean up all the shares, options, warrants and other financial instruments that had […]

September 20, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Duarte wins a round against the Corps of Engineers, judge OKs new charges

John Duarte and co-plaintiff Duarte Nursery won a round Thursday (Sept. 3), when U.S. District Court Judge Kimberly J. Mueller ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CoE) could be charged with violating Duarte’s First Amendment rights. Previously, Duarte had sued the Corps in October 2014 charging Fifth Amendment violations alleging the taking of […]

September 4, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Plow Field, Go To Jail? Feds Threaten John Duarte. He Slugs Back

By Lewis Perdue, Publisher & Executive Editor Copyright 2015, Wine Industry Insight   California nursery owner John Duarte planted winter wheat on 445 acres of his land in Tehama County in November 2012 with no idea that the federal government would shut his farm down three months later. He would lose that first wheat crop. […]

August 31, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Wine Mergers & Acquisitions Heat Up

Rumors and other information about the following pending acquisitions have been filling Wine Industry Insight’s email in-box for more that three weeks now. WII has been unable to formally confirm these with the principals involved, so the ultimate outcomes may differ from what is known now. However, multiple highly-placed sources say that at least two […]

August 26, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Reports That Oakland Port Labor Fiasco Is Over: “A Lie” Say Wine Country Shippers

Despite  some reports that the Port of Oakland fiasco has ended, a number of angry wine country shippers, their customers and others say that is simply not true. “It’s a lie,” said George Francis, the owner of Billet Transportation who hauls for a wide number of customers including Barrel Builders, Taransaud, and Francis Frere among […]

August 19, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Court Updates – Cameron Hughes Wine Co., Deerfield Ranch Winery, Dahl Murder/Suicide Aftermath

The updates in this edition come mainly from conversations and emails from premium Wine Executive News subscribers who have asked, “Whatever happened to [fill in the blank]?” In this edition, we will fill in those [blanks] with Cameron Hughes Wine Company, Deerfield Ranch Winery, and Robert Dahl, the vintner who killed his investor, then himself. […]

August 19, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Ultra-Premium Vintner Genius Wines In Chapt 7 Liquidation, Online Auction Set

Note: This is part 1 of a 2-part series. The bankruptcy of a high-end, yet never-profitable boutique Sonoma County vintner has left behind a trail of lawsuits, broken relationships, anger and frustration among a once-tight group of Canadian citizens, one of whom remains the owner of a prized, ultra-premium Chalk Hill AVA vineyard near Healdsburg. […]

August 6, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Wine.com facing $1 Mil class action settlement, but impact may be less than it appears

Related article: How is it that Wine.com will probably get a softer landing in its class action lawsuit settlement? The details   Wine.com may be on the hook for almost $1 million if a class action lawsuit settlement meets court approval at the end of next month. However, the settlement’s fine print could offer a […]

July 28, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More