NEWSFETCH – June 7, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Delaware House committee stops bill to legalize wine shipments
• Illegal Immigration Focus Switches To Employers
• Wine & Spirits Education Trust Adopts Hanni Principles
• Sonoma Growers Hear New Water, Labor Policies
• Winery serves as veterans’ sanctuary
• Restaurants expect strong summer employment
• Sonoma Winemaker Lewis Douglas Davis Dies
• Crush Lunch in honor of a Mike Lee
• What’s in a Name? Wine, Economics, and Terroir
• Get your noise out of my glass
• Gas prices can put brakes on restaurant sales
• Heat Illness Compliance Sheet

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Diageo and the brands that make the global drinks giant
• Liv-ex Claret Chip Index springs to life
• Molson Reaching for Foster’s
• Things bitter for Foster’s workers
• Diageo’s option to buy Ketel One vodka approaches

AROUND THE STATES

• PA: Wine Drinkers Begin to Escape the Borg
• OR: Mid-Valley vineyards hoping for warmer temperatures
• WA: Classy keg: Wine’s on tap at Sheraton Seattle
• WA: Richland Wants New Wine Science Center

EUROPE

• Champagne under attack from Italy
• Vinexpo ‘will return’ to America
• Chateau Latour, Petrus…Underdog in the vines
• Bordeaux 2010: Gruaud Larose release to open floodgates?

THE UK

• Jamie Oliver Blames Boozers For UK’s Foul Food

CANADA

• BC wineries look beyond provincial borders for new customers

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Price of cheap wine could quadruple
• OZ: More than one way to skin a grape
• OZ: Mixed response to land proposal

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Wine site Lot18 flexes its muscle – in the name of customers
• Lot18 & Pinot Noir
• WineGavel: World’s First Weekly Collector’s Wine Flash Site

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Back to the future with wine pouches
• Wolfgang Puck Launches His Own Wine Label
• New female targeted wine is packaged like perfume
• Death To Wine Snobs

CHARITABLE & GREEN AND SOCIAL CAUSES

• Diageo Provides Humanitarian Aid to Storm Ravaged States

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Don Sebastiani & Sons Hires New Winemaker Michelle McClendon
• Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition Announces Winners for 2011
• Manzoni Vineyards Announces New Wine and New Winemaker

LONG, WANDERING HEADLINE DEPARTMENT

• Wine.com Announces 25 Percent Growth, First-Ever Profits and Seventh Straight Year as Top Internet Wine Retailer
• Ferrari-Carano Vineyards & Winery, Along with the Vintners Inn, Launch Custom iPhone App, Android App and Mobile Website