Free “Wrath of Grapes” – A Happy-New-Year Bonus For Wine Executive News Premium Subscribers

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This original reporting broke the first news and continued follow-ups on major stories in the wine industry.

A sample of a few of those articles are linked below.

I’m writing mainly to say “Thank You!” for your support this year.

Free Wrath of Grapes

As a small token of my thanks, I’ve included links, below, to free copies of The Wrath of Grapes which was originally published in 1999 by HarperCollins and used for the basis of major reporting by Barron’s Weekly. I have since obtained the publishing rights and made it available on Amazon.

I wrote the book in the late 1990s and — among other things — predicted the massive glut that flooded the wine industry beginning (as predicted) in 2001. For those of you new to the industry, this was an astounding over-supply that the industry’s “experts” and “luminaries” said could not happen and continued to deny even as it rose over their heads.

The Wrath of Grapes is somewhat dated now, but many of the industry dysfunctions and delusions described in the book still linger.

The book links will be “live” until January 8, 2016. Please honor my request not to forward these files to others.

• The Wrath of Grapes, By Lewis Perdue (.mobi – Kindle – format)
• The Wrath of Grapes, By Lewis Perdue (.epub format)

In Case You Missed It

I published a small article in the News Fetch email on Monday, Dec. 28 — Yao Family Wines Buys Bello’s Former St. Helena Tasting Room. I’m including the link in case you missed it amid all the holiday goings on. The Napa Valley Register based an article on my on Dec. 31, but missed the details you got.

Here Are Just A Few Of The Exclusive, Original Articles Your Premium Subscription Brought You

• Calif ABC Charges 37 Wineries & Major Distributor With Bottlerock 2013 Tied-House Violations
• Inaccurate Calif ABC Records Frustrate Winery Murder/Suicide Asset Hunters
• After Losing $130 Mil, Entertainment Properties Trust Exits Wine Biz, CEO Exits Company
• Did Killer Vintner Want This To Be His Investor’s Forced Confession At Gunpoint?
• Duarte Goes On Offensive In Battle with Feds. Outcome May Affect Vineyards, Other Ag
• Gallo Glass Toxics Lawsuit: Biggest Story Involves Unanswered Questions
• Will Walmart Versus Texas Be Granholm II And Headed For SCOTUS?
• Small winery, penny stock: Truett-Hurst Winery shares pumped then dumped
• Wine Institute’s Shrinking Representation Of California
• Hindsight Sues Benessere, Charges Multiple Expensive Custom Crush Mistakes
• Prized Silverado Trail Winery Sold To Diablo Valley Winemakers
• Hambrecht Moves To Evict Truett-Hurst From Key Facility: VML Winery
• Is Crimson Wine Group (CWGL) Taking Itself Private?
• Ultra-Premium Vintner Genius Wines In Chapt 7 Liquidation, Online Auction Set
• Wine.com facing $1 Mil class action settlement,
• Micro-Agglomerates: 350 Million Illegal Corks Per Year?

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