NEWSFETCH – July 1, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Court Ruling is sour grapes for One True Vine’s “Layer Cake” Brand
• Does the Calif ABC hold Indian Casinos to Different Standards?
• How Market Conditions Affect Wine Sales Online
• Consumers Are Being Squeezed: How Will the Markets React?
• New Zealand wine will be tax-free into China next year
• Wine tech companies, can you win $50,000? We think you can
• Climate Change: Good for Oregon Grapes – Not Napa
• Private Sale Wine Site invino Launches Import Program
• Sonic, Burger King, other fast-food chains selling alcohol
• Jerry Brown’s card-check bill veto surprises both sides
• Top 10 Things You Should Know About The Farm Bill
• Moet Hennessy Signs with Southern
• Mexico trucking, tariff issues affect California grape industry
• Warmer temperatures threaten Northern California vineyards
• E. & J. Gallo deepens its roots in SLO County
• Wine Law Seminar in Napa on July 22, 2011
• Farmland prices go wild at $11,000 per acre
• Table grape gap looms between California deals
• Thanks a whole bunch

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• China’s Bright Food Said to Consider Bid for Treasury Wine Estates
• Jim Beam Gets His Own Ticker As Fortune Splits
• Liv-ex: Haut Brion emerges
• Constellation Brands profit jumps 52%, revenue off
  
• Brown-Forman buys Finnish vodka make

HEALTH

• Wine, not Beer = Healthier Alternatives for Fourth of July Cookout
• Obesity Beats Wine Consumption For Risk To Liver Health
• Red wine may benefit sedentary people

DIRECT SHIPPING & THE THREE-TIERED SYSTEM

• Direct-to-consumer wine sales growing more than twice as fast as industry

GLOBAL WINEGRAPE SUPPLY

• OZ: Surprising increase in winegrape crush

MEDIA MATTERS

• Conflicts of interest in wine criticism
• Dan Berger Called Me … To Discuss Wine Critics
• Winery PR: What’s it about, and who to avoid helping you along the way
• Where Content and Ads Come Together

AROUND THE STATES

• MD: Wine shipping, legal today, entices 30 wineries
• NJ: Diageo Supports “Cops in Shops” to Combat Underage Drinking
• NJ: Wineries on the Brink
• OH: Wine Industry: Double the Wineries, 4K Jobs, $580M
• WA: Prosser wine center opens
• WI: New winery in Grafton

EUROPE

• Prince Albert of Monaco chooses Provencal wine for wedding
• Bordeaux 2010: Chateau Haut-Brion releases, Forts de Latour breaks ranks
• Chateau Pichon Lalande appoints new winemaker

THE UK

• English wine community split over new names for sparkling

CANADA

• BC: Winery expansion upsetting

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Foreign investors buying up South Australian ag land

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• The Judgement of Hong Kong: French Versus Portuguese Wines
• Wine-growers of Hungary’s Danube region eye China
• Sino-French Wine Chateau settles in Taigu
• Xiamen wine dealers make huge profits from imported red wine

MARKETING & PROMOTION

• Which Customer Loyalty Trends Should You Consider in 2011?

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Amazon, Taxes and the Future of E-Commerce
• Android Growth Stalls, Apple Gaining Steam With New Smartphone Buyers
• Chrome Hits 20% Marketshare (Report)
• Tumblr is Doing Better Than Believed After Faulty Count is Corrected

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine Coolers Redux: We’re heading back to the eighties
• Food tops wine as Napa Valley’s top attraction
• How sweet it is
• Natural Bordeaux Killers?

GET A CLUE!

• The Beverage Testing Institute’s Jerald O’Kennard and Tony Abou Ganim, World Renowned Modern Mixologist, Join Mediaplanet and Key Industry Leaders in Campaign for the Meaningful Appreciation of Vodka

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