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# [BND] Kane's Beverage News Daily
- URL: https://bevnews.net/bnd-kanes-beverage-news-daily-77/
- Published: 2026-10-09T05:33:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-09T05:33:23.000Z
- Author: Compiler
- Tags: Newsletter

***Good Morning and Happy Friday, October 9, 2026***

### [Spot Buying During This Year's Calif. Harvest – And a Warning on Ripping Out Vineyards](https://bevnews.net/edit-spot-buying-during-calif-harvest-and-a-warning-on-ripping-out-vineyards/)

This is different: Some California winegrape growers are beginning to warn about ripping out too many vines for fear the state's crops may not meet even reduced demand. Enough vineyard acreage has been reduced, and yields are down enough this year that Ben Kolber, KG Vineyard Management (Lodi/Clarksburg) is "extremely cautiously optimistic" that growers will be able to have some conversations with wineries and sell grapes early "so we can continue to grow high quality wine grapes are really aff

### [What Will Determine Wine's Winners and Losers](https://bevnews.net/what-will-determine-wines-winners-and-losers/)

By Angelo A. Camillo, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Management Wine Business Institute, Sonoma State University Wine’s winners and losers are increasingly separated not by vineyard acreage or case volume, but by management judgment, brand clarity, and the capacity to learn faster than the market changes. Failure is rarely caused by the market alone; it is usually caused by how management responds to the market. That was the central finding of Success and Failure in Northern California: Critical

### [Opinion: Why Southern Glazer's Will Be Untouchable Until 2284](https://bevnews.net/why-southern-glazers-is-untouchable/)

In his Fermentation Substack, Tom Wark asks just what it would take for the State of California to revoke Southern Glazer's permit to operate in the Golden Gate State. It certainly won't be the recent "miniscule $12.5 million" fine Southern Glazer's paid to the Federal Trade Commission, Wark says. So the State of California, through a new agency, is conducting its own investigation of Southern Glazer's. Wark is dubious about what California's investigation will amount to . . . . 

### [New: Meiomi Blanc White Wine](https://bevnews.net/new-meiomi-blanc-white-wine/)

Meiomi announces the launch of Meiomi Blanc White Wine, a premium white wine blend that marks the next chapter in the brand's evolution and an expansion into one of the wine industry's fastest-growing categories.

***Thanks for reading. I'll be back over the weekend. – Joel*** 

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