NEWSFETCH – April 20, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Market Enforcement Branch Investigates Remy Cointreau + 4 Other Wineries
• The Hess Collection Reaches New Contract Agreement With UFCW Local 5
• $21 million for Justin Winery land
• Organic farming helps water retention
• Wine Law Seminar in Seattle to Focus on Financial and Legal Regulation
• The value of the winery experience
• Frost Protection In The Vineyards
• Top wine producers fear EU free-for-all on vine plantations
• Agriculture exports remain in limbo
• Producers abandoning South Australia wine industry
• Wine: Green with confusion
• Vineyard Property: The Not So Common Sense of Prescriptive Easements
• Observations on the Central Coast Frost & Grape Supplies

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Cost cuts, modest wine sales increase boost Altria profit
• Constellation Tops EPS, Lags Rev
• Constellation Hits New 52-Week High at $22.62
• Diageo denies mystery black mold link

WINE & HEALTH

• Does a glass of wine a day keep the doctor away?

DIRECT SHIPPING

WATER

• Water and farm groups say delta draft goes too far
• If California no longer has a drought, what does that mean?
  
• California lawmakers seek to exempt water projects from key law
• How Reliable is California’s Water Supply?

AROUND THE STATES

• CO: Liquor stores win another full-strength beer battle
• CO: Beer battle goes flat on final attempt
• NY: Honors for Winemakers, Grapegrowers
• OK: House approves task force to look at strong beer, wine sales
• OR: Pinot Gris Symposium – June 9
• TX: Collector Must Pay Up for Hawking Wine Forgeries
• WA: Prosser Teams Up With Region That Invented Wine

ACADEMIA

• In US, Education is taking business of wine to new level

EUROPE

• 70K bottles of Farinetti’s Gia impounded by Italian authorities
• Codorniu wins European Waste Reduction award
• Atkin and Robinson cast first votes for “stars of the vintage”

THE UK

• Oddbins administrators ‘close to deal’
• Naked Wines becomes Sarah Beeny’s website wine partner
• Royal Wedding wine revealed

CANADA

• Cool spring delays Okanagan vineyards
• Data on alcoholic beverage sales

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Roma floods hit oldest winery
• OZ: Hunter vignerons confident of riding out industry crisis
• OZ: SA vineyard yield up, despite disease

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China to Spend Nearly Half a Billion on Mobile Ads This Year
• Indian Wine Industry Grows Nearly 300% in the Last Decade

SOUTH AFRICA

• Minister encourages industry to promote wine tourism
• Vineyards feel the heat from rising temperature

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Great celebrations on Malbec World Day

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• The Importance of Social Media Optimization (SMO)
• Future Marketers Social Media workshop recap
• QR Codes Gaining Momentum As New Engagement Channel
• 2 Out of 3 YouTube Videos Are Ignored

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Tasteless Product of the Decade: Viagra Beer
• Santa Rosa’s radio ‘Wine Guy’ releases first wines of his own
• Cabernet’s secret: The glass doesn’t matter much
• If You Owned a Winery…What would you do differently?

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Photopurification of wine with UV Technology
• 4,000 FFA members descend on Fresno

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Last Bottle Launching Fine Wine Flash Sale Website
• Mondavi/Woodbridge partnership creates Dark Matter