NEWSFETCH – December 13, 2010

• Credit and debit card spending up at restaurants
• Americans’ Online Holiday Shopping Spend Already at $22B
• Southern W&S Hires To Focus on Calif Fine Wine Market
• NY: Inmates in charge of the asylum outlaw wine & cheese baskets
• Farmers must prepare for cuts in next farm bill
• VA: At auction, Kluge wine goes for as low as $2 a case
• Forgotten vines help wine makers fight climate change
• Top Expert Declares Wines Should Be Cheap, Homogenized, Lifeless Commodities!
• Grapegrowers Focus on Prices, Labor and Water
• EU: Wine and Whine
• Alexander Valley Cellars centralizes
• Tainted Love: A Look at the Role of Natural Cork in Wine
• Safrica: Pioneer makes firm intention of $120 mln KWV bid
• SAfrica’s Clover considers bidding for KWV
• More than Malbec? Can Argentina Ward Off the Ghost of Public Perception before the Haunting?
• Wine aficionados throng Pune wine tasting festival
• OR: Wine Institute Receives $100000 More
• TX: Attorney asks court to stop Dallas from issuing beer and wine permits
• SC: Fighting to have wine, beer for sell on Sundays
• Diageo, Moet Hennessy USA Continue Agreements With Glazer’s
• Future of Napa Mustard Festival in doubt
• Wine lovers try again to legalize corkage in Md.

NEWS FROM DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Growers, winemakers in dispute over pricing
• OZ: It’s raining and the prices are rising
• OZ: Reports on impact of rain to 2011 vintage

NEWS FROM CHINA & ASIA

• Peconic Bay Winery Exports to Canada, China
• Wine aficionados throng Pune wine tasting festival
• India’s chief wine evangelist
• Vin De France getting into China market

NEWS FROM THE UK

• Tesco toasts international success

SOCIAL NETWORKING & MARKETING

• 9 Ways a Wine Retailer can use Mobiles to Sell More Wine In-Store
• The dawn of Scvngr in Napa
• The Long Tail of Latinos on Twitter
• Makro unveils Twitter price promotion
• The Existential Trouble With Social Gaming [COMIC]
• Mapping Facebook’s Global Takeover [GRAPHIC]
• Market Now Awash in Free Local Data

LIGHTER NEWS

• How wine changed the course of history
• How Does Whole Foods’ $3 Wine Actually Taste?
• Photo-Op: What’s on Your Bottle?
• Is It Time To Invest In Fine Wine?
• Billionaires Plot to Snare $5000 Bottles of Investment-Grade Haut-Brion

WATER NEWS

• Editorial: Shared sacrifice in the Delta takes a holiday

THE FOLLOWING MIGHT BE NEWS…
But it’s hard to tell due to hyperbole, self-indulgence, poor writing, overly long, wandering or ALL CAPS headlines.

• Wine Management Systems Delivers the Wine Industry’s First ERP Solution in a …