NEWSFETCH – January 27, 2011

• Outlook Improving Says Allied Grape Growers CEO
• More on those Wine Market Council stats

(Please scroll down for LOTS more articles on research, data and trends.)

• Robots Battle Over Wine: A Techie View of Snooth/WineTracker
• OZ: Winemakers urged to address wine glut
• China headed for wine greatness
• Services pending for Van Asperen
• Analysts question Fortune Brands’ breakup proceedings
• Winery Owner Calls for Creation of New York Wine Council, Millions in State Support
• Wine Communication at a Crossroads as Millennials Turn to the Grape
• Christie’s Sales Surged 53% in 2010 on Contemporary-Art Rebound
• Hyatt’s House Wine Gets Student-Designed Labels
• Starting Off Green at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium
• Rothschild,Latour – new company makes it easier. Is it worth it?
• Napa: No verdict in home vines fight in western hills
• UP AND DOWN THE WINE ROADS
• Sattui: CHANGE THE NAPA AG PRESERVE
• Napa Valley shares wine knowledge

WINE RESEARCH, DATA TRENDS

• 2011 wine price update
• Opportunities Amid Difficulties: Allied Grape Growers Industry Update – January 2011
• Wine prices level off
• Wine Market Makes A Move
• Wine industry looks forward to a fruitful 2011
• US Expert: Restaurant wine sales recover, but slowly
• California Grape Growers Bullish

AROUND THE STATES

• WA: Chateau Ste. Michelle’s Tobacco Corp Owner Altria Reports 2010 Results
• Growing NC wine industry marks opening of 100th winery
• NY: Mobile wine-bottling line gets nearly $250,000 update
• NY: Finger Lakes wineries offer skiing, tobogganing
• IL: Court tosses liquor taxes to fund state construction
• OK: Senate may allow wine in grocery stores
• WA: 160,000 tons in 2010, 700 wineries

EUROPE

• Bordeaux Winebank hails further success
• Absinthe legalised in France
• Innovating in the French Wine Industry
• Gardinier family buys Taillevent

THE UK

• Fine wine for FindWine
• Taittinger turns to stone
• UK: WSTA Comment on ONS alcohol consumption figures
• UK: Alcohol deaths fall, official figures show

CANADA

• A modest proposal for Ontario’s wine industry

DOWN UNDER

• Foster’s lifts stake in NZ winery
• OZ: Floods cost NSW crops $850 million
• OZ: Riverland vineyards fear end of drought aid

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Wine List For KFC in China as Colonel Rules Fast Food
• China Faces Possible Renewal of EU Tariffs on Tartaric Acid
• Hot sale of mid-to-high-end wines points to earlier timing of Chinese New Year
• Counterfeit wine seized in Hefei
• Why wine exporters are rushing to India
• India: Bulk wine imports are up
• Liv-Ex: 1011 Hong Kong auctions
• Diageo Strategic Partnership With Hanoi, To Buy 23.6% Stake In Halico
• VinaCapital sells Hanoi Liquor stake to Diageo for $51.6m
• Wine gala kicks off in the land of feni

SOUTH AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA

• Penaflor taken over by Argentinean family Bemberg
• South African Heavy Rains May Last Until June, Forecasters Warn
• Safrica: Farmers assured of reliable grape market
• Winemaker extols virtues of Chile

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Deutsch Hires McGill
  
• Daryl Groom Launches Colby Red Through Walgreens

LIGHTER & LESS “TRADE-ONLY”

• If you outlaw wine bottles, only criminals will have wine bottles
• Will Boxed Wine Ever Make it in America?