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Hill Wine Co: The Pink Bunny Of Wine Financial Disasters

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. Like the pink Eveready bunny of bankrupt wine companies, the Hill Wine Company soap opera just keeps on going and going and […]

September 26, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

The Granbury Backer: Wine’s New Heavyweight Player

The backer behind the recent acquisitions of WineWare, eWinery Solutions and WineWeb is an über-savvy, successful, no-nonsense, straight-talking M&A and corporate turn-around player with a personal bankroll big enough to go eye-to-eye with Bill Foley. He earned big-time street cred while at Cerberus and since, has rolled through one success after another with a no-frills […]

September 18, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Hill Wine Debacle: Napa Valley Cab: $2.93/Bottle, $5/Gal

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. The Hill Wine Company Chapter 7 bankruptcy is stumbling towards complete liquidation via auction, foreclosure, eviction, and trustee asset sale. That’s resulted […]

September 12, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Silicon Valley Bank’s Earthquake Assessment Letter – Full Text

This is the full letter, unedited. Colored text has been added in some places for emphasis. This article is available to subscribers of Wine Executive News, the premium online content service of Wine Industry Insight. Wine Executive News subscribers please click here to read the complete letter and damage assessment details.

September 9, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Crimson Wine Buying Sonoma Vineyard With 98-Year-Old Zinfandel Vines

Crimson Wine Group (OTC: CWGL) has agreed to pay $2.6 million for a 24-acre Sonoma County vineyard parcel containing 13 acres of Zinfandel vines planted circa 1916. Wine Executive News subscribers please click here. An 8-K filed with the by Crimson Wine on August 29, said the land — on Piner Road north of Santa […]

September 3, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Earthquake engineers and scientists headed for Napa quake zone

NOTE: The following was submitted by structural engineer and winery earthquake researcher Joshua Marrow. Marrow’s name may be familiar to many because he has written extensively for Practical Winery & Vineyard. He is requesting that wineries in the quake zone reach out to him regardless of whether they have been damaged or not. His efforts […]

August 24, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Napa Wine Industry Quake Help Forum Created

Napa quake help forum re-designed to be more user friendly. (Fired 3rd party site with ads). Forum also has NEW link: http://napaearthquake.com HEADACHES UPDATE: Aug 25 — The forum vendor I selected sucks. The registration is too long and the posting too complicated…I will be changing this as soon as I can. I apologize but […]

August 24, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Wineries Assessing Damage of Napa Area 6.1 quake

PLEASE REPORT DAMAGE IN COMMENT SECTION OF THIS ARTICLE Napa and Sonoma County wine businesses are rushing to assess the damage from a 6.1 earthquake epicentered west of the Napa County airport in the eastern part of the Carneros AVA. Wineries, vineyards, warehousers and others with photos, information and damage to report should do so […]

August 24, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Vineyards = Ugly Environmental Disasters Says L.A. County

  The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is set to steamroll through a plan that would prohibit new vineyards in the Santa Monica Mountains. This comes just weeks after the federal government established the Malibu Coast American Viticultural Area (AVA). Vineyards are the only current agricultural use being banned. The vineyard prohibition is included […]

August 21, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

L.A. Vineyards: Spat, Snit, Snot (Opinion)

This is the second in a three-article series: Why Does Los Angeles Hate Grapevines? OPINION: L.A. Grape Spat: Credibility Crisis and Elitism L.A. County Lists Staggering Number of Uses Permitted in Santa Monica Mountains SNIT This controversy has all the hallmarks of a governmental snit. I’ve sensed all these foul smells both as a journalist […]

August 21, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More