NEWSFETCH – June 9, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Asset Sales double Brown-Forman Profit
• Strange dieback affecting Sonoma Pinot crop
• Appetite for Upscale Dining Shows Little Sign of Revival
• Technomic finds online daily restaurant deals driving positive consumer behavior
• Aussie Wine grape glut problem continues
• Top Cava Brands Tap Into US Consumer Price Sensitivity
• Arroyo Seco winery approved
• Women agree to disagree on wine
• California Senate mulls anti-Styrofoam bill
• Tastevin – Release the Cruvee API Kraken!
• How to Effectively Engage International Participants in Tech and Wine Events?
• Winery wins court appeal against Auburn prohibition
• Service Saturday for Santa Maria winemaker and teacher
• How to Build and Run a Successful Winery

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Top Alcoholic Beverage Stocks That Hedge Funds Love
• Asia cognac boosts Remy Cointreau, pays dividend
• Liv-ex: Cellar Watch Market Report released
• Castle Brands Announces $7.0 Million Private Placement
• Diageo Buys African Stake from SAB
  

HEALTH

• Canadian allergen label rule absurd
• Why are beer, wine and spirits not required to disclose nutritional info?

DIRECT SHIPPING & THE THREE-TIERED SYSTEM

• Specialty Wine Retailers Respond to Threats By Texas Alcohol Regulators

WATER

• Calif Senators Feinstein And Boxer Stand Up For Clean Water And River
• Saving Water Using Cutting Edge Technology
• Pumps’ fish slaughter alarms conservationists
• Spring fish kill put at 6 Million from pumps
• Calif Rivers to run fast with snowmelt
• Sacramento rivers too cold, fast for fun
• Fisheries have equal claim to water

AROUND THE STATES

• MO: Legislature in Stalemate Over Booze Reg Modernization Efforts
• OR: Wineries bill advances, may allow broader sales efforts
• WA: One of state’s oldest wineries being sold in pieces
• WA: Hopes for More AVAs

ACADEMIA

• FLCC programs designed to fill educational need

EUROPE

• Chateau Margaux unveils Do-Chi-Nam as Bascaules replacement

CANADA

• Ontario sets maximum bottle weight limit

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine crush up 1% despite weather, tops 1.63M tonnes
• OZ: Buffer zones under fire

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China’s Top Farmer to Invest in Patagonian Winemaking

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• How the Wine Industry Conspires to Make You Look Like an Idiot
• Pairing Wine With McDonald’s
• Wine confidential: state dinner with Angela Merkel
• Jacuzzi: a spa and a wine
• TAPAS wines defy convention
• Craven Idiot Alert: Jewish extremists drink wine in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• The good and the bad of draft spray regulations
• Napa Valley Think Tank Launches New Analyses