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Calif 2020 grape harvest CRUSHED by smoke, warm weather

  Complete link coverage from other media outlets can be found at this link. Click this link for the Full Crush report (PDF)   Ciatti Company: Mother Nature & Smoke Taint “Total tons were down but that was due to both Mother Nature’s lighter yields and issues of smoke exposure that plagued most of the […]

February 11, 2021 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Complete coverage of 2020 California Preliminary Crush Report

Value of North Coast’s 2020 grape harvest cut in half by wildfires, pandemic Prices and Tonnage Drop like a Rock Wildfires clobbered CA wine grape crop in 2020, feds say California North Coast wine grape crop value drops by nearly half from fires, weather, pandemic California Crushed 3.4 Million Tons of Wine Grapes in 2020 […]

February 11, 2021 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Bespoke Capital to take Vintage Wine Estates Public in SPAC offering

ADDITIONAL LINKS Bespoke Capital SEC  Form 6-K Agreement to Acquire Vintage Wine Estates, Inc. What is a SPAC? Explaining one of Wall Street’s hottest trends   NEWS RELEASE, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 Vintage Wine Estates, One of the Fastest Growing U.S. Wine Producers, to Become a Public Company February 04, 2021 07:00 ET | Source: Bespoke […]

February 4, 2021 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Reviews and 5-Star ratings are so useless for recommendations that Netflix tossed its prized $1-million algorithm. They’re even worse for wine

Articles in this series include: Article #1: How A Netflix-Style Recommender Is Vital to Reversing Wine’s Market Marginalization Article #2: Why solving the “Paradox of Choice” is a major reason Netflix’s recommender is worth $1 Bil/yr. And why wine fails at that. Article #3: Reviews and 5-Star ratings are so useless for recommendations that Netflix […]

February 4, 2021 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Why solving the “Paradox of Choice” is a major reason Netflix’s recommender is worth $1 Bil/yr. And why wine fails at that.

  “[H]umans are surprisingly bad at choosing between many options, quickly getting overwhelmed and choosing ‘none of the above’ or making poor choices”— Carlos Gomez-Uribe, Netflix VP of product innovation & Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt. The “Paradox of Choice” is one of the two main reasons that Netflix values its recommender system at $1 […]

January 29, 2021 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Constellation Brands Wins Trademark Dispute Over ‘To Kalon’ Wine; Judge excoriates Nickel

  A federal court judge has granted Constellation Brands U.S. Operations Inc.  a permanent injunction after ruling that Vineyard House LLC violated trademarks and intellectual property relating to the “To Kalon” name.   District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District Court for the Northern California district said in her order that: “As trial […]

January 28, 2021 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

How A Netflix-Style Recommender Is Vital to Reversing Wine’s Market Marginalization

Articles in this series include: Article #1: How A Netflix-Style Recommender Is Vital to Reversing Wine’s Market Marginalization Article #2: Why solving the “Paradox of Choice” is a major reason Netflix’s recommender is worth $1 Bil/yr. And why wine fails at that. Article #3: Reviews and 5-Star ratings are so useless for recommendations that Netflix […]

January 18, 2021 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Ohio State Attorney General Has Commanding Lead In Direct Shipping Litigation Tournament 4-2-1

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December 15, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

To Kalon Federal Court Case continues

Previous coverage: Vineyard House, Constellation To Kalon battle may be over soon.

December 9, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Vineyard House, Constellation To Kalon battle may be over soon.

After a string of delays, the long-running dispute between Constellation Brands (Robert Mondavi Winery) and The Vineyard House over To Kalon vineyard designation rights is finally nearing a decision. Most recently, the trial had been scheduled for trial beginning August 31 in San Francisco U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District Of California, but […]

December 4, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More