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Vintrust Closing Collectors’ Services To Focus On Winery Fulfillment
Vintrust will close its collector cellarage and data operations permanently at the end of October and has recommended that its clients join a program that Vinfolio has created for them, according to a September 15 email to its clients. VinTrust’s collector services included physical cellaring of wines, a database system to track wines whether in […]
Standard Web Affiliate Programs Illegal For Wine in California
The web’s near-ubiquitous affiliate programs, such as those offered by Amazon Associates, are illegal in California for wineries and retailers as well as bloggers and websites, according to information issued today by the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The ABC’s opinion came as the result of a query made by Wine Industry Insight on […]
Conti Slips Closer to Foreclosure, Trustee Still In Charge
Foreclosure for Conti Estate/Charles B. Mitchell Winery has gotten closer with the Bankruptcy Court’s removal of bankruptcy protections that previously prevented the Bank of Alameda –which holds liens on the winery’s real estate and personal property — from pursuing legal action. VIP Subscribers click here to read the complete, un-redacted article. Also In This Article: […]
How Journalism Works At Wine Industry Insight
Here’s how an article works. I hear about something that may be news. I learn about these through public documents, emailed and phoned tips, or sometimes by putting two-and-two together and looking around the right territory. CONTACT MADE WITH EVERY POSSIBLE SOURCE Then I contact everyone possible. This includes the people directly in the news […]
Billington Winds Down Havens Winery
Financially troubled Billington Imports has all but pulled the plug on Napa Valley’s Havens Winery, telling employees and growers that it would not be making a 2009 vintage. Suppliers, former employees and others formerly associated with the winery said that Billington executive and winery General Manager Phil Manno informed the winery’s remaining six employees of […]
Follow-Up On CDFA Cosentino Hearing
While majority stockholder Larry Soldinger and other officials of Cosentino Winery have failed to return any of Wine Industry Insight’s requests for information about this (or any of the previous articles), more details have emerged from participants and observers at the August 31 hearing to revoke the winery’s processor license for non-payment of $1.2 million […]
Judge Lets Cosentino Dodge $1.2 Million In Grower Payment Demands
An administrative law judge has ruled that Yountville’s Cosentino Winery can buy winegrapes this year despite owing previous growers $1,197,442 for fruit from the 2007 and 2008 vintages. After a hearing in Oakland on August 31, the judge delayed until November a California Department of Food and Agriculture request that would have prevented Cosentino from […]
Wine Group Dominates Top 100 Brands, Gallo, Constellation at Bottom
Other than a subtle rearrangement of the deck chairs for the biggest losers, July proved to be mostly a holding pattern for the top 100 brands, according to Wine Industry Insight’s analysis of data from Information Resources Inc. (IRI) for the four-week period ending August 9, 2009 over the same period last year. VIP Subscribers […]
Double-Digit Import Sales Outpace Domestics In July
Imports took the top three spots for dollar sales gains in the four-week period ending August 9, 2009, racking up double-digit increases that left top U.S. producers in the dust according to Information Resources Inc. (IRI) VIP Subscribers click here to read the complete, un-redacted article. Also in this issue for VIP Subscribers: TOP IMPORT […]
No Bubbles For Champagne, But U.S., Italy, Spain Sparkle
Sales of Champagne have continued to fizzle out while U.S. sparklers along with those from South Africa, Chile, Italy, and Spain continue to bubble. According to Wine Industry Insight’s analysis of data from Information Resources Inc. (IRI) overall sparkling wine sales increased 3.8 percent for the four-week period ending August 9, 2009 over the same […]
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