NEWSFETCH – September 16, 2010

WINE INDUSTRY DEATHS: David Ready, Jr., Kathleen Fetzer, Joseph Cambiaso — Please scroll down for more

• Troubled Eos Winery Looking At Buyouts For Survival
  
• Beringer’s Multi-Platform Hispanic Campaign Breaks New Ground
• ARTESA: An Example of How Vineyards Threaten Redwood Forests and Native American History
• Foster’s Wine Business Worth $3.3 Billion to Buyout Firms, Merrill Says
• New All-Out Attack On Wine Merchants Launched With H.R. 5034
• BBC to uncover nasty ingredients in drinks
• Fill ‘er up: self-serve tanks bring wine to French supermarkets
• Growers really ‘dig’ new smartphone app
• Per-Drink Tax= Big hangover for SF business
• Malbec plantings on the up in Bordeaux
• Lake County’s weekend wine auction a sell-out
• Washington Wineries Debate Privatization Proposal
• OR: Cities fear loss of revenue if state liquor measures pass
• National Puerto Rican Coalition Seeks Federal Investigation of Diageo Rum ‘Deal’
• Staglin event raises $2.5 million for mental health research
• New Web site showcases California farmers
• UK: WSTA market report shows consumers cautious on spending
• Sauternes and other dessert wines legal for the Chinese market
• NZ: Hawkes Bay winery gets taste for China
• Brown-Forman Q1 Profit Declines 8%
• Burgundy 09 big in style and volume
• Turning bottles into wine glasses generates profit
• Itinerant winemakers create some high-flying vintages
• Bring out the bubbly
• Vintage time: Teen owns, works vineyard
• Is Southern Oregon the next Napa Valley?
  
• Germany: Legitimacy of wine promotion contributions confirmed yet again
• BC: Sumac Ridge Estate Winery robbed
• The Aroma of Consolidation
• Urban Farming Gets a Swanky Boost from Bonterra Vineyards
  
• Processing tomatoes, wine grapes top Yolo County crop report
  
• Paterson vineyard installs ‘gorgeous’ vertical wind turbines
• NZ: Campbell creditors likely to lose $1.7m
• France Kicking Our Asses in Wine Vending Machines
• Justin Vineyards & Winery First in US to Partner with Qr4Wine
• Judge Stomps Gate-Crasher Salahi’s Bid to Dismiss Winery Bankruptcy
• Lady Gaga’s meat dress: impossible food-wine pairing?!?

WINE INDUSTRY DEATHS:

• Murphy-Goode Winery co-founder David Ready Sr. dies at 64
• Wine family matriarch Kathleen Fetzer dies
• Joseph Cambiaso, winemaker
  

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