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Codorniu Mismanaging Aveniu Brands Into The Ground

Codorniu has steered Aveniu Brands toward disaster, thanks to the Spanish firm’s long-distance micromanagement and an inability to move quickly in a changing market. Insiders and sources close to the ongoing trials and tribulations say that Aveniu has lost its largest winery client, many other major brands, is on the verge of losing more and, […]

April 28, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Recycled Wastewater In The Wine Vineyard: Unknowns, Health Hazards, Brand Issues

NOTE TO READERS: This is a republication of our 2014 article. For much more on topics raised in this article, please visit The Stealth Syndromes Project. The Great California Gold Water Rush of 2014 The current drought has accelerated has accelerated pressures to expand the use of recycled municipal wastewater for irrigation.   Some thirsty […]

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

Wine Industry Connections – The Ontiveros Network

Solid, intelligent relationships underpin business success, especially in the wine industry. This is the first in a continuing series of articles based on federal, state and local documents as well as other public, open source information. The links among people and companies may be that of owner, investor, partner, executive, board member or other relationships […]

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

Silverado Premium Properties & Winegrowers Sold To TIAA-CREF

Only the best of corporate transitions can go so smoothly that no one notices. That seems to have happened with the sale of Silverado Premium Properties LLC and Silverado Winegrowers Holdings LLC: the biggest wine industry sale that almost everyone missed. Almost everyone, except for Michael Fritz of Farmland Letter who, on May 24, 2012, […]

April 4, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Chinese Investors Snap Up Another Napa Winery/Vineyard

China-based companies continue to cherry-pick Napa winery and vineyard bargains with the latest being a Pope/Chiles Valley winery and vineyard with a substantial use permit. The purchase, by a publicly traded Chinese company, was made via a newly-formed California Corporation. Wine Executive News subscribers please click here to read the complete article. Also In This […]

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

DISCUS Wades Big Time Into Oregon Grocery Liquor Sales Process

The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) has forged close relationships with American grocery chains in an effort to fight “wine only” state laws according to multiple board members who have spoken with Wine Industry Insight on a “not for attribution basis.” Those interviews have also revealed a growing alliance between DISCUS and […]

March 14, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

US Govt Asking Industry To Fund Most Of $50 Million Alcohol/Health Study

The federal government, along with scientists from Yale and Harvard, are asking wine, beer and spirits organizations to fund most of a landmark clinical study on the health effects of moderate alcohol consumption. According to documents provided to Wine Industry Insight, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (part of the National Institutes of […]

February 28, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Treasury Wine: Faint Praise, Crossed Fingers & Tough Love

Treasury Wine Estates is a lot like a brilliant, but ill-focused teenager still loved by his parents who realize an urgent need for some tough love if he’s ever going to perform up to potential. That seems to be the consistent opinion of David Errington, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch’s Australian research analyst whose Feb. 21 […]

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

Treasury Wine: Incompetent, Irrational, Disorganized

Treasury Wine Estates continues to shoot itself in both feet because management is incompetent, its sales strategy is irrational and its U.S. assets are a drag that need to be divested as soon as possible, according to an analyst report from Bank of America/Merrill-Lynch. Wine Executive News subscribers please click here to read the complete […]

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

Napa Lawsuits Snarl Chinese Tycoon’s Howell Mtn Land Buy

A Chinese tycoon with prominent global winery and vineyard holdings is still waiting to buy a substantial piece of Napa Valley’s Howell Mountain, thanks to a deal gone sour between Pacific Union College (PUC) and an Atlanta real estate developer. Court records indicate that the deal, in which the developer was to spin off part […]

January 27, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More