NEWSFETCH – January 25, 2011

• Final New Vine Liquidation: $Zip For All Creditors Except For Taxes, Trustee and 1 Former Exec
• China’s wine production to overtake Australia’s in the next three years
• Blackstone Winery closure could help Constellation Brands
• Wine Industry Insight’s Premium VIP Content Is Now Wine Executive News
• Who’s Drinking Wine? A Look at the Wine Market Council’s Latest Survey
• UC Davis: Greenhouse gases could hurt companies’ stock values
• Wine Store Finds Opening business tough in California
• U.S. restaurant count declines
• Distilled Spirits Industry Beginning to Rebound From Recession
• Lawsuit Roils Nickel & Nickel and Far Niente
• Wine, Grape Pros Gather In Sacramento
• CDFA Budget and Delta Watermaster Report to be the Focus of California State Board of Food and Agriculture Meeting
• Live look at World Ag Expo construction available online
• Bureau releases updated rules on wine bottle labels
• Wine Institute to spend $10M on “global branding” campaign
• U.S. Wineries Continue to Increase Their Use of Cork

THE SNOOTH & CELLARTRACKER CONTROVERSY

• Snooth & Cellar Key – Legal & Ethical Ain’t Always The Same
• Snooth’s Reply: Digging Into The Details
• Is Snooth scraping data from CellarTracker?
• Is Snooth Taking data from CellarTracker?

DIRECT SHIPPING

• Shipcompliant + WSWA – say it ain’t so!

AROUND THE STATES

• CP: Local winemaker finds great success with Malbec grape
• Southern Oregon Wine institute wins award
• OH: Lonz Winery plans move ahead
• New Life for Wine Bottles in Michigan
• MD: Dime-a-drink booze tax hits House chamber
• KS: Grocers look to sell full-strength booze
• GA: Sunday alcohol sales legislation given good odds
• PA: Wine Kiosks Re-Start Trial Run
• NY: New winery to open along Lake Ontario
• Turzai says he’ll push for private sale of wine, liquor

EUROPE

• Austrian wine enjoys export high

THE UK

• Bibendum launches Market Insights division

CANADA

• Icewine harvest makes for a hearty initiation at Niagara College’s teaching winery
• In Canada, Wine trade : Stuck in another century

DOWN UNDER

• NZ Grape Harvest May Increase to 300,000 Tons, Rabobank Says
• OZ: More bad news expected for flood-hit farmers
• NZ: Wine exporters wait and hope
• Foster’s shares jump amid report SABMiller has cleared bid
• Winery faces grapes of wrath

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Entering a Barrel Market
• #1 Greek wine brand exploits China market
• Chengdu: imported wine excites the masses
• Indians Ready for Wine-at Lower Prices
• Romanee Conti, Chateau Latour, Lafite Rothschild…Asia’s Thirst for Fine Wine Continues

WATER

• Water demands clash with antitax push in California
• The California Bay-Delta and the Rime of the Ancient Salmon

LIGHTER & LESS “TRADE-ONLY”

• Lack of Sex Among Grapes Tangles a Family Vine
• Want rare wine? Buy the winery
• Soles4Souls Announces Partnership with flipflop wines
• Three Thieves wine trio takes to the screen
• RFID solution introduced to manage wine cellars
• Wine Myths (and Reality)
• You Smell Flowers, I Smell Stale Urine