NEWSFETCH – July 6, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Chilean Wine Exports Up 17% – Rabobank
• Honest wines: Kiwis least likely to understate alcohol levels
• Wine Labels Lie About Alcohol
• Penn’s Big Brother Booze Brag Blasted
• Malbec and Prosecco, the Americans’ favorite varietals
• Alcohol Regulation Roundup
• Concerns voiced on menu-labeling proposals
• Natural winemakers should beware dogma
• Napa Workers treated for difficulty breathing after trimming sprayed vines
• Wine Industry Anti-Propaganda Party
• Gary Vaynerchuk on regional wines
• Why I Am Trademarking Pi

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Foster’s & Treasury: Analysis of The Lively Debate
• Liv-ex: Top 2010s up 15% on 2009
• Fizz goes out of Foster’s chase
• Constellation brands has a history of growth, grapes and getting global
• Trade Alert – Brown-Forman at New High

HEALTH

• You’re Drunker Than That Wine Bottle Says You Should Be
• Cheers, take a wine pill

MEDIA MATTERS

• The debate on wine writer ethics
• Wine Judges and their Discontents
• Great Wine Literature…Or Not
• European Wine Bloggers Conference lines up speakers

AROUND THE STATES

• GA: Court says store can be liable for beer sale
• NJ: Court ruling could spell disaster for wineries
• OH: New winery now open in southern Ohio
• TN: Liquor Laws Liberalized

THE UK

• Tesco make wine aisle more informational
• Tesco: sub-£5 wine “increasingly difficult”

CANADA

• Canada’s wineries feel heat of strong currency
  
• Wineries expand as Canadians move from grain to grape

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Alcohol battle being won by industry
• OZ: Shire considers coal mining block

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Winemaker aims to build a Thai legacy
• India inches towards lower taxation on alcohol
• Winemakers say China deserves better

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Review your Wine Marketing Plan
• Can Personyze unlock big data for small businesses?
• Small Business and Social Media
• QR codes can be just the ticket

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• When Good Wine Goes Bad
• When a wine fails to age, who’s to blame?
• Long Island Risk Takers Reap Rewards
• Mysterious liquid believed to be wine from Warring States period
• What we want – ideally – from our American vintners
• Drinking from the Roots of the Andes in Chile’s Cachapoal Valley
• Wine without Pretense: Wineries can be a tough and dirty business

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Vineyards Work To Keep Stinkbugs Away
• Bats Battle Bugs in California Vineyards

MEANINGLESS HEADLINES

• Cellar Advisors and Socket Mobile Toast to a Perfect Pair Perfect Pair of what?
• Southern Wine & Spirits of Indiana Celebrates Milestone What sort of milestone?

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