NEWSFETCH – October 20, 2010

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• Bankruptcy Trustee Sues Renwood Winery For $1 Million
• Antonette Marie Franzia Dies
• FDIC chair warns of possible US farmland ‘bubble’
• Calif sees no link between recession and heavier drinking
• UK: Good times as wine buffs trade up
• Wine Survey Reveals A Shift In Some Wine Spending Habits
• NYTimes Discovers HR5034
• Wine drinkers prefer PET to Bag-in-Box and Tetrapak
• Wine & Tobacco: Altria Reports Quarterly results
• Ag classes gain students but lose teachers
• Fuel not wine runs dry in France
• Wholesale worry for Va. beer and wine suppliers
• Wine Politics and the Emperor’s New Clothes
• World’s best-loved wines at risk from climate change
• Liquor privatization on tap in Pennsylvania, too?
• Why I Almost Quit The Wine Industry
• Costco Battles For Cheaper Booze In Wash. State
• NY: Cheers to a new winery in Yates County
• A Frenchman in Napa Valley
• Bonterra’s Campaign for Urban Farming Raises More Than $60K

SOCIAL NETWORKING & MARKETING

• 3 Things Any Video Needs to Go Viral
• Social media monitoring software and PR agencies – expensive meets expenses
• Sonoma wine tastings go online, turn to Twitter

LIGHTER, WEIRDER,AMUSING NEWS

• Auctioneers identify 19th Century ‘Faberge’ wine taster
• Hail to recorking king
• Forget about wine scores. They’re not the problem
• How corporate executives taste wine
• What’s the deal with steakhouse wine pricing?
• The art of making high-end wine (photos)
• Cuvee’ Chernobyl? Champagne loses radioactive battle
• Man tries to obtain “Jesus-powers” through bread and wine diet

2010 HARVEST NEWS

• WA: Harvest – Oct 20 Edition
• Grape growers among those facing late harvest
• Napa Valley predicts exceptional vintage
• CT: Wine 2010, A California Summer
• Harvest time in Napa Valley: Low tech, high art