NEWSFETCH – July 8, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Alcohol brands using Facebook Sponsored Stories risk sanction
• Wine prices continue to strengthen
• U.S. Retail Sector: Mixed Picture, Some Sectors Gain, Others Lose
• Argentina: Economics Will Continue To Boost Imports To America
• Two Bodies Found In Napa Pot Garden West Of Rutherford
• E-Verify Proposal Would Trample on Worker Privacy
• Successfully Navigating the New Economy: Legal & Tax Issues Facing the Wine Industry
• The US gets angry with Canada
• NY wineries want feds to speed up bottle labeling
• Wine & Silicon Valley to benefit from U.S.-South Korea trade pact
• Ceja Vineyards Unveils Plans for New Winery on 10th Anniversary Celebration
• Questioning Calif’s industrial safety program
• Worker safety to be discussed at Central Coast seminar
• Napa Winegrape Market Open
• Mike Thompson: More Than Grapes Squeezed In Lake County
• Remembering Doug Watson
• Audit of ag programs first step in farm bill process
• USDA to spend money to revitalize rural rental housing complexes
• CalPERS bribery scandal…Villalobos’ French wine collection brings $160,000

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Diageo Announces European Marketing Overhaul
• Liv-Ex: Most traded 2010s
• Major Management Moves At Pernod Ricard

HEALTH

• Is white wine better for my teeth than red wine?
• Social Cost of Alcohol claims Exaggerated: NABIC
• Drinking wine can increase your life span

WATER

• Exposed! Closed-door meetings on California’s peripheral canal

AROUND THE STATES

• PA: Turzai to order new round in state store debate
• PA: CF Applauds Initial Liquor Liberty Law Proposal
• WA: A Housing Plan for Wine Workers
• WA: Liquor privitization initiative backers optimistic

EUROPE

• Vintages “the way forward for Cognac”
• Cheval Blanc ‘got the price wrong’, say merchants

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Sell water, winegrowers told
• OZ: High dollar opens door to Europe’s wine
• OZ: Proposed waste dump could threaten grape vines

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chinese to promote Italian wine in China
• Japanese Kusuda makes NZ wine his own way
• 2011 China Wine Industry Annual Meeing held in Penglai

SOUTH AFRICA

• Wine Magazine goes all digital

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• The Key to Understanding Email Marketing in China
• Bloomspot has a solution to group purchase profitability

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Sweet Wine Drinkers Might Not Wear Panties … SAY WHAT?
• Feral Pinot Noir?
• Too Much Alcohol in Wine or Too Many Wines with Imperfect Balance ?
• Still California Dreamin’
• Alexander Valley Vineyards – Great Family Values and Wine
• Wine blends back in the mix
• Why are there ‘systematic errors’ in wine alcohol labels?
• Blood And Sweat: Wine And Olive Oil In Italy’s Deep South
• Winemaker Interview: Greg La Follette
• Final day in Napa ends up in Sonoma
• Fashionable Bordeaux Without the Fashionable Pricing
• Brief history of wine

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Summit Lake Vineyards celebrates 40 years of winemaking
• Rom Toulon leaving Meadowood
• Kress joins Vine Cliff

GOOD AWARD, NAUSEATING ADJECTIVE

• To Kalon Vineyard Receives Prestigious Vineyard of the Year Award

“Prestigious?” PUL-lease. If something really IS prestigious, you don’t need to hit people in the face with it.