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Gina Gallo, Dry Creek Store Charged With Polluting Russian River

Gina Gallo and her Dry Creek General Store LLC have been sued in U.S. District Court by the Northern California River Watch and charged with polluting the Russian River and surrounding ground water with sewage from a defective septic system. According to the complaint, defective leach lines from the the store and restaurant at 3495 […]

June 9, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Chalk Hill For Sale, Foley Leading Suitor

Chalk Hill Winery is for sale and the most likely buyer seems to be Foley Family Wines according to numerous sources in the wine industry. Neither Chalk Hill’s owner, famed attorney Fred Furth nor a spokesman denied that the winery was for sale unlike early 2009 when sale rumors sprang up like spring dandelions. Foley […]

June 4, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Imports Down, Domestics Edge Up, $20+ Wines Lead Way

A 6 percent decline in imported wines nudged overall U.S. consumption down half a percentage point for the four-week period ending May 1, but domestic sales increased 1.7 percent led by wines costing more than $20 per bottle, according to scanner data from The Nielsen Company. (NOTE: This article and several others in the coming […]

June 2, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

IBG: REthink Engine Out, Vin65 In

Inertia Beverage Group (IBG) has scrapped its REthink Engine and signed a deal to license the Vin65 eCommerce and marketing platform for its customers to use for direct sales efforts, according to an email sent out to IBG clients late June 2 by IBG President & CEO, Joe Waechter. British Columbia-based Vin65 is owned by […]

June 2, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

IBG Goes For Yet Another Funding Round

Inertia Beverage Group (IBG) on May 24, held the initial closing of its latest multi-million-dollar funding round intended to keep it alive until it can begin to sustain itself from operations. According to insiders associated closely with the latest deal, the new round was “necessary to the future of the company” because of expenses associated […]

May 25, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Fraud, Mismanagement Allegations Plague Ascentia

While prospects for insolvency have captured the attention of those following the W. J. Deutsch’s lawsuit against Ascentia Wine Estates (AWE), the process has unleashed a series of  corporate mismanagement allegations against  CEO Jim DeBonis. “Eight Estates [a former name for AWE] may or may not be insolvent in a purely technical sense,” said one […]

May 17, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Ascentia Issues Vague Denial of Insolvency

Ascentia Wine Estates (AWE) offered a vague email denial yesterday to Kevin McCallum’s extensive Press-Democrat article about the W.J. Deutsch’s lawsuit alleging AWE is insolvent. McCallum wrote a follow-up article in today’s Press Democrat: CEO Claims Ascentia OK While asserting that Deutsch’s litigation was “phony,” AWE’s denial was devoid of details or specifics. The statement […]

May 14, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Vin-Go Still A Go Despite Arrest of COO

Vin-Go LLC, a Napa-based wine compliance and shipping start-up is still a going concern despite the recent arrest of its Chief Operating Officer said the company’s majority shareholder James Delaney. Vin-Go COO Michael J. Steinhauer was extradited Tuesday to Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas to face embezzlement charges brought against him by […]

May 6, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

$20+ Wines Continue To Lead Off-Premise Trading Up

The off-premise “trading up” phenomenon, as first noted by Wine Industry Insight in March, is gathering steam with wines in the $20+ price segment gaining 19.2 percent, up from their 12.6 percent gain last month. Click here for spreadsheet of this custom graphic. (VIP Subscribers) The original analysis, interpretation and custom calculations performed by Wine […]

May 5, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Ascentia, W. J. Deutsch End Distribution Deal

Ascentia Wine Estates and W. J. Deutsch & Sons have ended their exclusive distribution arrangement. Jim DeBonis, CEO of Ascentia Wine Estates told Wine Industry Insight that, “We simply felt it was the best move for us to go directly to our distributors and work with them.” WJD President Peter Deutsch was less sanguine and […]

April 29, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More