NEWSFETCH – December 31, 2010

• Diageo Calls on TTB To Approve Alcohol Serving Facts Labels on Bottles
• A drinker’s dilemma: How many calories are in this?
• Free samples at Calif stores can now include booze
• New Test Can Identify What Grapes Are in Your Wine
• Brown Forman’s Sale Of Wine Business Could Be Prelude To Acquisitions
• Beverage Institute criticizes drunk driving checkpoints
• Champagne Lures Big Spenders Even as Low-End Discounts Abound
• The ABC’s of Liquor Privatization
• Vivando fungicide offers unique mode of action to fight powdery mildew
• Wine kiosks can’t compete with human service
• Foiling the bugs that spoil wine
• Bubbles bubbles: Some toil and trouble — but worth it
• Texas wine-grape growers invited to cluster Feb. 11 for annual field day
• Earth-friendly growing practices produce top quality wine
• Debonné Vineyards founder Tony Debevc Sr. remembered
• Sonoma: Plenty of olives, but season delayed
• Canadian Wineries opting out of icewine production
• Passing the Bar: Brooklyn Winery
• Wine columnist enlists the help of wine enthusiasts to bottle custom blend

2010 ROUNDUP & 2011 PREDICTION ARTICLES

• 10 Essential New Years Resolutions for Winery Websites
• The top Napa Valley wine stories of 2010
• Facebook by the Numbers in 2010
• Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 outperforms gold, oil and equities in 2010
• 2010 another great year for Texas wines
• OZ: 2010 in review – The Strong Dollar
• Swirling around a winemaking forecast for 2011
• PA: 2011 finally might be the year the state privatizes liquor business

NEWS FROM DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Vic butchers and florists to sell wine
• NZ: Wineries bubbling with optimism
• Strong Australian dollar affords us a genuine Champagne lifestyle

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL NETWORKING

• App Smart Extra: Wine-Shopping Apps
• Facebook’s Amazing Scale
• If an App Is Your Content Strategy, You Are Doomed