California nursery owner John Duarte planted winter wheat on 445 acres of his land in Tehama County in November 2012 with no idea that the federal government would shut his farm down three months later. He would lose that first wheat crop. To this day, he has been prevented from planting, cultivating, harvesting, recovering his […]

Rumors and other information about the following pending acquisitions have been filling Wine Industry Insight’s email in-box for more that three weeks now. WII has been unable to formally confirm these with the principals involved, so the ultimate outcomes may differ from what is known now. However, multiple highly-placed sources say that at least two […]

The updates in this edition come mainly from conversations and emails from premium Wine Executive News subscribers like you who have asked, “Whatever happened to [fill in the blank]?” In this Godot edition, we will fill in those [blanks] with Cameron Hughes Wine Company, Deerfield Ranch Winery, and Robert Dahl, the vintner who killed his […]