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FDA Friday A.M. Update: Assessing Safety Of Agglom Corks Needs More Work

Just received at 7:55 a.m. Friday in response to Wine Industry Insight’s request for further information. This makes clear that the safety issue of TDI in agglomerated corks is still up in the air and needs more work. No conclusive proof they are not safe. Some indication that they may be. A rush to judgement […]

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

FDA, Diam Respond To WII Request For Comment On Agglom Corks

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) belatedly responded Wednesday to Wine Industry Insight’s weeklong efforts to gather information for its article regarding wine corks containing TDI. Diam also issued a statement (reproduced in its entirety below). The EPA has not responded to the status of corks in their TDI rulemaking process. Wine Industry Insight […]

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

Micro-Agglomerates: 350 Million Illegal Corks Per Year?

See: FDA, Diam Respond To WII Request For Comment On Agglom Corks for updated information.   Agglomerated cork manufacturers and importers are facing scrutiny from two major federal agencies over health concerns about the plastic used to bind bits of cork glued together. The concern is that chemicals in the binding plastic can leach into  […]

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

WineGavel Owner Gets Jail For Embezzlement

The owner of WineGavel is finally going to jail, two and a half years years after Wine Industry Insight first broke the story of disappearing wine and mis-managed auction. See WineGavel Sued By Rare, Fine Wine Collectors for that original 2012 article. The Napa Valley Register reported this morning that Joshua Krummenoehl, 41, of Brooklyn, […]

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

NY Times Uses Hill Wine Company Debacle To Take A Shot At Napa Valley

Napa Valley’s reputation took a hit from the New York Times on Sunday in an article about the Hill Wine Company implosion and Jeff Hill’s antics. The article: in “Vino Veritas. In Napa, Deceit” offered a general interest summary that hit a few of the high points of this highly complicated case. In the process, […]

January 25, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Jeff Hill Pleads Not Guilty To Grape Theft

IMPORTANT NOTE: Hill Family Estate as well as William Hill Estate Winery, are not affiliated with, nor owned by the same families as The Hill Wine Company in this and previous bankruptcy articles. As the Hill Wine  Company liquidation winds down to its last hurrahs, the various criminal and civil lawsuits against the company and […]

January 18, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Hindsight Sues Benessere, Charges Multiple Expensive Custom Crush Mistakes

Allegations of custom crush operations gone bad have turned into a lawsuit for breach of contract and negligence brought by Calistoga-based Hindsight Vineyards against Benessere Vineyards of St. Helena. Hindsight’s complaint, filed in Napa Superior Court (document for premium subscribers), alleges that Benessere’s mishandling of its wine cost more than half a million dollars and […]

January 15, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Noggle Vineyards Wine To Be Sold At Bankruptcy Auction

Approximately 600 cases of wine from Lake County’s Noggle Vineyards and Winery will be sold at bankruptcy auction next year. Wine Executive News subscribers please click here to read the complete article. Not a Wine Executive News subscriber yet? Subscribe to Wine Executive News now, and get the rest of this original article along with […]

December 17, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Lexington Street Files Court Papers Alleging Robert Dahl Felonies

Lexington Street Investments LLC has filed a document in Napa Superior Court that it says proves Robert Dahl was convicted of two felonies convictions in Minnesota. In an email received by Wine Industry Insight early this morning, Dahl said, “There are no such convictions.” Dahl is the owner or managing partner in a number of […]

December 15, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Dahl & Napa Point Winery Object To Napa Court Ruling On Wine & Tanks

Robert Dahl and his Napa Point Winery LLC were ordered last week  to turn over wine and wine tanks to Lexington Street Investments LLC, but have challenged the decision. Dahl’s attorney has objected to by Napa Superior Court, Judge Rodney Stone’s tentative ruling and that sends the matter back to the judge who said he will […]

December 11, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More