NEWSFETCH – November 1, 2010

Please scroll down for Harvest, Social Networking & Lighter News

• Lafite Sets Wine Record $230,000 a Bottle in Sotheby’s Hong Kong Auction
• Wine With a Double Shot of Vitamin C?
• “Biodynamics is a Hoax”
• Fortune Brands’ biggest foe: the Tax Man
• UK: Alcohol ‘more harmful than heroin or crack’
• Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) bounced back in Sept to highest level since April (Scroll down in article for full study)
  
• Winning Millennials Over to Wine
• Lafite auction redefines prices across the globe
• Frazier Winery For Sale
• Wine supply-chain manager FreeRun attracting attention
• Quebec liquor board’s expansion plan leaves sour taste in Alberta
• Is this wine investing scheme a scam?
• Champagne boss who blew open Hitler’s cellar dies
• Pioneer Foods looking to buy KWV Holdings
• The guilt free drinking guide
• Canadian winery taps Chinese market
• VA: Kluge Vineyards Hit With Foreclosure
• Lafite Another HK hit for Sotheby’s
• Malbec has its own World Day
• New Composition Regulations for Swiss and Chinese Wines
• Restaurant operators offer brighter outlook
• Prices paid for restaurant businesses slip
• Vin-Go has new general manager
• Will Lafite’s Red ‘8’ be lucky in China?
• Continuum Estate the latest Mondavi family twist
• Ukiah wine capsule maker to increase production 30 percent
• Gordon Ramsay defends £250,000 wine cellar at home
• Southern W&S of Indiana to Distribute Moet Hennessy USA Brands
• Pelican Brands & Marisco Vineyards of NZ US Partnership

NEWS FROM DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Wineries face a threat from tax hike
• OZ: Wine boosting alcohol intake
• OZ: Growers’ tractor protest tries to squeeze homes out of wine land
• Kiwi wine to display carbon emissions, by the glass
• OZ Vineyard Plague: The Dutch Disease
• Navigating the bumpy road New Zealand Wine is driving down

SOCIAL NETWORKING & MARKETING

• How Online Private Sales Work and How Businesses Can Get Involved
• Actual results from marketing to bloggers
• 4 Things Small Businesses Should Know About Facebook’s New Groups
• Study: Online Cooks Seek Utility in Online Ads
• How to Be a Twitter Ninja
• Facebook Places Driving Scant Foot Traffic to Mall Retailers

LIGHTER NEWS

• Venture capitalist pursues perfect pinot noir high atop San Mateo County
• A ‘good’ wine is all a matter of taste
• Wine behind our drinking high
• Lebanon claims world’s largest glass of wine
• Yes it’s true not all wine is appropriate for vegans
• Wine drinkers could be knocking back sawdust and charcoal

2010 HARVEST NEWS

• NY: Grape harvest done, growers say crop is fabulous
• San Mateo County winemakers expect good vintage despite cool season
• TX: Vintners look to Mediterranean varietals, great harvest in hopes of helping $1.35 Bln industry grow