NEWSFETCH – April 29, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Gary Farrell Winery Sold To Vincraft Group
• Chappellet Acquires Sonoma-Loeb Wines
• Boisset Family Estates Buys Buena Vista Carneros
• Treasury’s new wine group eyes US exports
• Winery buyers reveal expansion plans
• Unemployment: 57,300 workers vanish in Central Valley
• Agritourism visitors generate critical income for Calif small farms
• Don’t Count Out Williamson Act
• States Want Feds to Crack Down on Underage Drinking
• Winery throws down grape gauntlet
• Foley Sets His Sights on Australia
• Napa Valley Grapegrowers: Wildlife in the vineyards
• McDermott confident on US, Korea trade deal, wine included
• How To Rid The World of Sonoma Coast Wines

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Foster’s Shareholders Approve Spinoff of Treasury Wine Division
• Liv-ex: Spotlight on Petrus
• Foster’s Demerger Approved; 99.7 percent Vote in Favour
• Foster’s wine-beer demerger to clarify divisions’ value

HEALTH

• Printing alcohol levels: questions and answers

DIRECT SHIPPING

• H.R. 1161: Supported by the U.S. Constitution

WATER

• Managing California’s Water: From Conflict to Reconciliation
• Ducks Unlimited supports Clean Water Act restorations

AROUND THE STATES

• GA: Becomes 37th State to Allow Sunday Liquor Sales
• GA: North state’s wine country
• NY: Wine in grocery store backers change tactics
• PA: State Store Union Denounces PLCB Liquor Vending Machines
• UT: Liquor licenses running out
• WA: Winegrowers Wait for Buds

EUROPE

• 2010 Catalan wine exports increase but still below 2007-08
• 1855 announces 39% sales growth for Q1

THE UK

• NYT’s Asimov praises English wine

CANADA

• Wine Australia eyes Canadian market

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Wine glut? What wine glut?
• OZ: Penfolds raises the price of its finest drop
• OZ: Wineries urged to act on grape prices

LATIN AMERICA

• Mendoza the new Mecca for South American wine
• Biodynamics Hits Chile, Without the Controversy (At Least For Now)

SOUTH AFRICA

• Ban on booze ads ‘will cost SABC R400m’

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Here’s What Your Facebook Photo Says About You
• Restaurants: Active Facebook fans more important than total number

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Can you taste your wine’s origins? ‘Somewhereness’ says you should
• How to pack wine safely in your luggage
• Fred MacMurray’s daughter lives life of bliss on sanctuary

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Breakthrough leads to understanding how crops deal with stress

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• FLASQ Wines Inks Deal With Infineon Raceway
• Restaurant Assn Sells Out Chicago Wine, Spirits & Beer Event

MEDIA MATTERS

• The Suckling chronicles

THIS MIGHT BE NEWS ... But it’s hard to tell because it generally fails to pass the nausea test thanks to the annoying teases and self-aggrandizing hyperbole.

• Martin Wine Auctions To Sell Collection Of Some Unnamed Billionaire’s Collection … And That Of A “Southern gentleman physician” Too.