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Good morning and happy Wednesday, March 25, 2026 Willamette Loss Widens as Sales Ease Willamette Valley Vineyards reports 2025 sales of $37.2 miilion, down 6.5% from a year-earlier. It attributed the wider loss to a decrease in revenue from direct sales, net of excise taxes, of $1,

Good Morning and Happy Saturday, March 21, 2026. New Study: Wine Drinkers Less Likely to Die for All Causes than Beer, Spirits Fans Compared with never or occasional drinkers, those with high alcohol consumption were 24% more likely to die from any cause, 36% more likely to die from cancer

Good Morning and Happy Friday, It's March 20, 2025. Why Fawn Weaver Believes She Can Save Uncle Nearest At the heart of the present battle over Uncle Nearest is the question of whether the company's financial condition has deteriorated to the point that the only viable

Good Morning and Happy Thursday. It's March 19, 2026. Using AI to Make Beer At NVIDIA GTC 2026, Jensen Huang devoted a significant portion of his keynote to OpenClaw – the open-source AI agent he called the operating system of the agentic era, as foundational as Linux. One

Good Morning, and Happy Wednesday. It's March 18, 2026. Uncle Nearest Files for Chapter 11 Reorganization; Founders Sue Farm Credit Over Alleged Smear Campaign Uncle Nearest Inc. filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Act protection, bringing the court-appointed receivership of the Nearest Green Distillery to an end. The

Good Morning and Happy Wednesday. It's December 17, 2025. Trinchero Family Wine & Spirits Acquires Mumm Napa Trinchero Family Wine & Spirits agreed to acquire Mumm Napa from Pernod Ricard. Terms weren't disclosed.  Seneca Lake Winery Sold Glenora Wine Cellars, a pioneering small Finger Lakes winery,