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NEWS FETCH – February 12, 2014

TOP NEWS Calif Hits 2013 export record US Senate Finally Plans Drought Help Drought: A flood of business for irrigation firms Net Farm Income to Decline in 2014 Americans Drinking More Italian Wines Than Italians Canadian Passport = Free Beer At Sochi Olympics Going national? Consider this in your distribution strategy – Control States [Sponsored […]

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NEWS FETCH – February 11, 2014

TOP NEWS Treasury Wine: Incompetent, Irrational, Disorganized WHO’s World Cancer Report 2014 Biased & Inaccurate Environmentalists dread Obama’s California drought trip Farm Bill: A trillion in the trough A Stellar Sales Pitch Starts With Only One Thing? [Sponsored Link] CALIFORNIA 2013 CRUSH REPORT Tidal Wave of Moscato Rises in California North Coast winegrape crop in […]

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NEWS FETCH – February 10, 2014

TOP NEWS Charles Banks Invests In New Zealand Winery Polar Vortex Chills Jan Restaurant Sales Foley Family Wines Expands in New Zealand Gunfire and grapes in taxis: How civil war threatened Syria’s only harvest French wine thieves caught red-handed Going national? Consider this in your distribution strategy – Control States [Sponsored Link] CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Obama […]

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NEWS FETCH – February 7, 2014

TOP NEWS Feds’ shutdown of Duarte winter wheat farm threatens all farmers Boston Wine Expo Bans Direct-To-Consumer Exhibitors CDFA: Sharpshooter Shot Dead Affordability, health benefits = wine sales increase How winter weather impacts restaurants Rabobank Report: Global Wine Industry Q4 2013 Predictions for the Chinese market in 2014 A Stellar Sales Pitch Starts With Only […]

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The Thrillist … Wine Missing Another Marketing Boat?

The Thrillist is a predominantly Millennial site, but still  one of my favorite sites to surf for fun, but as this typical page (below) indicates, it rarely features wine. Wine sellers may not care much for me as a customer, but writing off this market could bode badly for the future.  

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NEWS FETCH – February 6, 2014

TOP NEWS Mendo Winemaking Giant John Parducci Dies Making Sense of the 2014 Farm Bill Grapevine Gene Bank Under Threat Drought’s impact on farmers worries equipment vendors USDA Invests in ‘Climate Hubs’ New VA Gov Nixes State Wine Mansion Exclusive: “there’s some finer options” Power Grab By NY Liquor Middlemen Condemned by Wine Consumer Group […]

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NEWS FETCH – February 5, 2014

TOP NEWS Calif drought: More foreign wine imports, higher bulk wine prices Farm Bill: What’s In It For Wine? Russian Vodka Billionaire Aims to Beat Diageo Destructive cork tax could cost NY wine growth UN Says Alcohol & sugar laws needed to stem cancer tidal wave A Stellar Sales Pitch Starts With Only One Thing? […]

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NEWS FETCH – February 4, 2014

TOP NEWS Restaurant sales, traffic dip in December Satellites show ‘total’ California water storage at near-decade low Ag Groups Put Pressure On Immigration Issue A Stellar Sales Pitch Starts With Only One Thing? [Sponsored Link] CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Southern Wine & Spirits opens Calif Supply Center San Joaquin River restoration flow stopped early to save water […]

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NEWS FETCH – February 3, 2014

TOP NEWS Cal State Water Project Cuts Allocation To Zero Wineries More Optimistic Moss Adams Tells Unified Symposium Treasury Wine, Asian Stocks Continue Decline Mendoza And Tuscany Are Top Spots In Vineyard Prices A Stellar Sales Pitch Starts With Only One Thing? [Sponsored Link] DROUGHT/WATER Up to 2 feet of snow expected to fall atop […]

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NEWS FETCH – January 31, 2014

TOP NEWS Punch-drunk Treasury a prime takeover target Hispanics Top Believers In The American Dream Feds Say They Won’t Steal San Luis Ag Water, Millerton Still Threatened Unified Wine & Grape Symposium Hits New Attendance Record California’s economy should see faster growth Craft Distilleries Grow From Embryonic Stage [Sponsored Link] CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Beer helps drought-stricken […]

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