NEWS FETCH – MAY 18, 2012 TOP NEWS Grape Gluts, Shortages & Facebook’s IPO IPO Rerun Special: Do people actually buy wine on Facebook? Turnover At Lot18: 4 Senior Executives Gone Restaurants use Facebook Offers, ordering to boost sales Is the fog of fraud dampening fine wine prices? As the U.S. grows more diverse, the wine industry remains white Constellation Signs [...]
Fri, 18 May 2012 16:24:09 +0000 Grape Gluts, Shortages & Facebook’s IPO Almost exactly 13 years ago, I sat on the edge of my seat, giddy on hope and thankful for shares in a high-profile Internet stock about to go public. The date was May 11, 1999 and the insider stock I had was in TheStreet.Com. I acquired the shares after moving over to TSC from MarketWatch [...]
Fri, 18 May 2012 16:01:41 +0000 NEWS FETCH – MAY 17, 2012 TOP NEWS Labor firm settles federal lawsuit over local vineyard workers’ treatment Sierra Club loses vineyard parcel split case In US, Wine Consumption Stays Steady Shortage? Ot Not? Are Growers About To Over-Plant Again? Grape Growers Hear Good News Justin Vineyards Focuses On Quality With New Vineyards, Winemaker, Label U.S. Court invalidates NLRB election ‘ambush’ [...]
Thu, 17 May 2012 15:46:48 +0000 Shortage? Or Not? Are Growers About To Over-Plant Again? The most recent issue of the Allied Grape Growers Newsletter that landed in my email this morning raises some very important questions about supply, un-counted acreage and asks some really vital questions about whether to join the planting frenzy. The following is from the newsletter which you can read in its entirety by clicking here. [...]
Thu, 17 May 2012 02:05:29 +0000 NEWS FETCH – MAY 16, 2012 TOP NEWS Black Box Looks To Maintain Double-Digit Growth Shift in grape market impacts North Coast wineries, grower Technomic: Fast-casual restaurants ahead of industry growth Wine By The Glass Is For Chumps $716 million judgment for selling alcohol to minors English wine beats Moët in blind tasting The new rules of wine you don’t know [...]
Wed, 16 May 2012 15:05:29 +0000 NEWS FETCH – MAY 15, 2012 TOP NEWS Global Supply: Bumper wine crop predicted in Chile Import/Export: Aussie farmers welcome falling dollar Ascentia Spins Off Ste. Chapelle Winery To Precept Alcohol consumption increases sexual assault risk: New Study Cool wine regions to benefit from research on new pathogen Protecting Wine From Transport Heat Damage Chapoutier considers legal battle with concrete egg [...]
Tue, 15 May 2012 15:56:42 +0000 NEWS FETCH – MAY 14, 2012 TOP NEWS The $1,000 Wine App: PA Pushes The Envelope of Cluelessness Updating the Mendo Wine Co Shuffle Component in red wine may hold answers in Alzheimer’s battle The value of social media customers Are celebrity wines worth the price? Wines Targeting Women Are Long on Legs, Short on Flavor SWE Signs Chandler & Co. [...]
Mon, 14 May 2012 15:44:05 +0000 The $1,000 Wine App: PA Pushes The Envelope of Cluelessness The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is marketing a $999.99 ‘Millionaire’s Wine App.’ Something this ridiculous is its own parody that’s impossible to top. So read on. Description (from iTunes) Exclusivity, Luxury, Privilege. VIP Black, ‘The Millionaire’s App’, is the first and only premium lifestyle application for the iPhone. Members receive ‘VIP Treatment’ – personalised attention [...]
Mon, 14 May 2012 15:41:04 +0000 NEWS FETCH – MAY 11, 2012 TOP NEWS Imported Wine Category Shows Growth After Three-Year Slump Glass named president of Mendocino Wine Co. U.S. Wine Shipments to Canada Up Hustling Wine to Millennials Is Serious Business Which restaurants win with Millennials? Wine workshop’s focus: Millennials Corked Champagne “costing billions” The Reality of On-Line Sales to Minors Congressman trying to ban more [...]
Fri, 11 May 2012 15:10:28 +0000 AMATEUR, ARROGANT, WANDERING NEWS RELEASE OF THE DAY (This is an excerpt from today’s News Fetch … excerpted here for my colleague Chris Rauber at the SF Business Times who has been suffering from a big flack attack. See Twitter thread below) AMATEUR, ARROGANT, WANDERING NEWS RELEASE OF THE DAY There might actually be news here, but this transcendentally offal news release won’t [...]
