NEWSFETCH – January 6, 2011

• JanKris Vineyards Founder Mark Gendron Files Bankruptcy
• Cosentino Winery Re-Opening Planned For End of January
• Online Holiday Spending Up 12 Percent To A Record $32.6 Billion
• A Quarter a Drink Tax Could Ease California Budget Deficit
• Locavore concept violates core economic principles
• FDIC: Personal bankruptcy rates jump everywhere in California
• Wine, oil prices both driven by economy, study finds
• Pernod Ricard targets US growth
• Ag group, Wine Institute want Florez for public utilities panel
• Grahm sells Pacific Rim
• Majestic Wine Toasts Success, Other Retailers Drown Their Sorrows
• Constellation tax rate helps profit, sales miss
• The Market for Responsible Drinking
• The Constitution and Wine
• Nickel winery heir files lawsuit against boardmembers
• Trincheros donate 3600 acres to county
• German Tax Quirk Gives Prosecco Sales Edge Over Champagne
• Vintage Wine Estates buys defunct Cosentino Winery, brings back founder
• Sogrape named European wine producer of the year
• Agricultural businesses missing out on substantial tax credit
• Free The Grapes: 2010 In Review
• Bold, debossed label gets small
• WINE COUNTRY: Pace of sales continues
• BIVB tastings to highlight climats
• Texas wine-grape growers invited to cluster for annual field day
• OR: Looking back on positive year for local wine

NEWS FROM DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Armed men attack St Francis Winery
• OZ: Tim Adams buys Leasingham Winery from Constellation

NEWS FROM ASIA

• Tianjin to build world’s largest wine center
• ASC opens Wine Gallery in Beijing
• Imported wine: hot sale and high profitability

NEWS FROM THE UK

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL NETWORKING

• New WineInfoTag Guides Wine Purchase
• Will Solicited Facebook ‘Likes’ Ruin the System?
• Smartphones Still Outrank Tablets & E-Readers in Nielsen Survey

LIGHTER NEWS

• Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration
• Why isn’t more wine ‘organic’?
• Robert Parker is obsolete, wine is in vogue
• Lebanese wine: Edgy, exhilarating and drinkable
• Catalina Island Vineyard Bears Fruit
• The Lazy Abuse of Wine Scores:

DRIVEL THAT MIGHT BE NEWS ... This generally fails to pass the “Why should you care?” test thanks to a swamp of hyperbole, self-indulgence, poor writing, asinine junk demanded by clueless clients, lawyers, and others with no idea how reporters actually work.

• Extraneous Lawyer Crap
• Self-indulgent headline of the day: Pacific Rim Winemakers’ Vision and Growth Continue Unabated with New Proprietor, Mariani Family