NEWSFETCH – December 17, 2010

• China, U.S. agreements favorable for agriculture
• Unique vineyard leasing scheme launched
  
• Napa Valley’s Krug to celebrate 150th birthday
• The World’s First Wine Investing Magazine Launches
• U.S. Weighs Curbs on Genetically Engineered Crops
• Thief steals wine bottle worth $8500
• After umami, a sixth taste is discovered: kokumi
• Guzzling wine is cheaper and more dangerous than doing drugs
• How to Drink Less During the Holidays
• The 2010 Liv-ex Fine Wine Power 100
• 1855.com fails to deliver top Bordeaux
• Remy tops the 2010 class
• Industry Execs Present Global Perspective on State of Alcohol Industry
• The Lewelling heritage of farming yields highly praised wines
• Prohibition, online
• Alcohol ads seen by more youths
• Idea to lift Md.’s corkage ban has restaurateurs split
• New winery in Southern Indiana
  
• OR: Wine man with a will
• Prius-Driving Ted Turner To Visit Sonoma Wine Country
• Boosting Resveratrol in White Wines
• TX: Wine Czar Says, ” Best Texas Wines Will Be in the Style and Tradition of Europe”
• Wines donated for Napa Valley College ‘restaurant’

CHARITABLE WORKS AND SOCIAL CAUSES

• Diageo North America Celebrates Local Charities this Holiday Season

NEWS FROM DOWN UNDER

• Aus Vintage: ‘Worst may be behind us’
• OZ: Grampians’ wine staves off cheaper imports
• OZ: Vineyards trust beats calls to disband
• OZ: Queensland’s oldest winery battles the drought, the wine glut and rainbow lorikeets
• NZ: Here’s a smashing idea
  
• NZ: Sip of wine blossoms into career
  

NEWS FROM CHINA & ASIA

• ProMendoza opens Shanghai office
• Italian winemaking in an Indian town
• Wine India Moves: Banford says ‘Bye to India

NEWS FROM THE UK

• Steve Lewis pours Majestic success out of the best vintages
• Champagne Lanson – victim of container theft

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL NETWORKING

• ChompOn Turns Display Ads Into Wine & Other Deals
• 81% of Gen Yers Use Facebook Daily [STUDY]
• Are Web Apps the Future of Websites? (A: Yes)

LIGHTER NEWS

• Seven ways to puncture a wine windbag
• The Lafite Phenomenon
• Norton: The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine
• Pondering the mystique of old red wines

WATER NEWS

• Smelt ruling makes sense
• Fed, California Propose Plans for $13B Water Conveyance Tunnels

THE FOLLOWING MIGHT BE NEWS…
Slogging through the swamp of hyperbole, self-indulgence, poor writing, over-long, wandering or ALL CAPS headlines.

• Prices Soared at Spectrum Wine Auctions’ December 5 Sale in Hong Kong…blah, blah, blah…