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Steve Bachmann - founder and CEO of Vinfolio has continued to provide a quality product and service to the wine collecting community.

Today they introduced

WinePrices Fine Wine Indexes

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Please - get to know your retailer -understand how the US market works.

Here is the link to the Wine Enthusiast Article - Link

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Interesting thoughts on Wine Investing - take it for what you will

http://tv.winelibrary.com/2008/07/10/investing-in-wine-with-jim-cramer-of-mad-money-and-your-host-gary-vaynerchuk-episode-499/  

This is from July 10, 2008 - 

Chateau LaTour Retail in Show - $480

Last Auction data - 

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Copia filed for bankruptcy yesterday - December 1, 2008.

 While they have always struggles to breakeven, I believe it is an institution worth striving to keep alive in some form or another.  It is a credit to Robert Mondavi that the facility was even built.  The Oxbow area of Napa is just starting to come alive, I am not sure if that helps or hurts Copia - but it is worth finding out.

To read more:  here is a link to Google News aggreagation of stories on the subject.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1276712142

To all those in the wine education department of Copia - we know you did your best.

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United Arab Emirates: land of opportunity or a bubble about to burst? By Rob Walker, of Euromonitor

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By AARON O. PATRICK

London

Wine-and-spirits giant Diageo passed on two of the world's hottest ad agencies last spring to hire a Madison Avenue stalwart, JWT, to advertise its Baileys liqueur. Starting with Thanksgiving, JWT will try to prove it was the right decision.

For three years, Diageo used the same slogan for the brand, "Serve Chilled," but Baileys sales in the fiscal year ended June 30 were sluggish, growing just 3%, down from 10% the year before, when the company introduced new flavors.

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