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NEWSFETCH – March 1, 2012

TOP NEWS MAJOR UPDATE: American Wine Distributors To Close After Losing Lawsuit & Biggest Client Restaurant Performance Index down, operators still optimistic McWine! McDonalds Has Wine on the Menu in South America New Zealand’s Marlborough touted as next big Pinot region Calif. delta tunnel plan would increase pumping How US farmers’ markets reach out U.S. […]

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NEWSFETCH – February 29, 2012

TOP NEWS Napa’s St. Supéry Sees Luxury Wines Coming Back In The On-Premise Progress on Calif’s European Grapevine Moth Quarantine Winery Exchange Sues 7-Eleven – $2 million Supplier Dispute What would Andrew Jackson drink? Reflections on the $20 price barrier Fine Wine Getting Back on Track (Bloomberg video) Wine Mixology: cocktails not just for liquor […]

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NEWSFETCH – February 28, 2012

TOP NEWS Restaurant chain beverage refocus on cocktails & beer, not wine Congress moves to redistribute California’s water Delta groups urge defeat of water rights revamp Alcohol Regulation Roundup Liv-ex: Fine wine merchants take stock of 2005 French Vin-Expatriates Flocking to Hong Kong Utah Liquor Law and the Immaculate Concoction Capella Pedregal Brings Top Chefs […]

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NEWSFETCH – February 27, 2012

TOP NEWS Predicting Wine Prices In 2012 Not A Simple Task New Zealand heading for winegrape shortage in 2012 Sourcing Winegrapes in a Shortage LIFO Accounting May Vanish In Obama’s corporate tax overhaul ‘Defective’ trusts may boost 2012 tax exemptions for vineyard, winery owners UK consumers willing to spend more with non-chain wine stores CropLife […]

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NEWSFETCH – February 24, 2012

TOP NEWS Washington: Cab Production Down 28% in 2011, Overall Production Down 11% California Harvest 2011: A New—and Welcome?—Direction Naked Wines: 24,000 bottles in 24 hours for Easthope Pernod to push Tempranillo as Spain’s NZ Sauvignon Blanc Wine Survey Opinions Needed By UC Davis Cooperative Extension Rodeno reflects on 4 decades in the wine industry […]

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NEWSFETCH – February 23, 2012

TOP NEWS US Wine Trade Deficit Worsens, But Americans Getting More $/Liter On Exports Calif State Water Project allocation is slashed Central Valley Project also curtails water deliveries To Buy or Not to Buy: Factors Impacting Winery Supplier Choice Naked Wines invests in NZ winemaker OZ: Riverina grape growers pressured to sell fruit at half […]

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Young Scientist Seeks to Soothe Frets about Brett

We got this in an email this morning from Washington State University’s Viticulture and Enology Program and wanted to pass it along to you. February 23, 2012 Every time you take a breath, you inhale fungi and fungal spores. In every cubic meter of air there are thousands of spores released by hundreds of species […]

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NEWSFETCH – February 22, 2012

TOP NEWS Russian River science panel created Meridian Capital, Axton Wine Group To Facilitate Foreign Investment (Item 2) E.&J. Gallo reveals ‘film club’ as part of 2012 UK activity $100,000 reward in Harris Ranch eco-arson OregonWine Symposium is a hit Bill Bertram, wine label pioneer, dies at 78 MA: Wine Direct Shipping Bill Languishes in […]

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NEWSFETCH – February 21, 2012

TOP NEWS Mendocino Wine Co. Struggles To Explain Paul Dolan’s Exit Restaurant sales trends strong in January The Daunting Task Of Sustaining The Modern Wine Business Wine Scandal Watch: The FBI Swoops In China’s Ningxia region joining OIV as observer Fused genes tackle deadly Pierce’s disease in grapevines Jin Shan Zhang buys chateau for ‘Chinese-French […]

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NEWSFETCH – February 17, 2012

TOP NEWS Mortgage Title Mogul Morphs Into Entrepreneur of Viticulture Treasury raises toast to the thirst of China (Scroll down for lots more Treasury articles) Wine Fumbles Health Issue, Spirits Industry Picks Up Ball California water bill approved by key panel Achieve Business Goals by Taking Responsibility for the Other Guy’s “Mistakes” Killer Label Design […]

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