NEWSFETCH – July 20, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Consumer Continues to Get Stronger
• CDFA Commissioner Ross Details Further Pierce’s, Sharpshooter Cuts
• Chile in trouble, a chance for Argentina?
• Global Wine Market: How Europe Competes
• Why aren’t there more U.S, sparkling wine producers? Taxes.
• Aussies Begin New Service to Support Wine Exports to Asia
  
• Is wine writing a “dodge”?
• Calif Winegrape Demand and Prices Bubbling
• Kiwi Vineland value drops 60%, but no takers
• Better Barrel introduces new wine dispensing system
• Creating a Real Voice For American Wine Consumers
• Wake Up, Wine People: Boomers Won’t Be Buying Your Wine Forever
• U.S. Spirits Consumption Continues 13th Year of Growth
• What NEEDS to be said about wine

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Investors to share in Foster’s Tax win
• Fine wine trounces the FTSE100

AROUND THE STATES

• FL: Saddle Creek offers Jax warehouse services to G3
• OH: High court ruling on Myrddin Winery will have statewide effect
• MA: Lawmakers Eye Expanding Bottle Deposit
• TX: Drought beneficial for wineries
• WA: Wine Hall of Fame to induct Walla Walla’s Anderson

ACADEMIA

• Fundamentals of Wine Chemistry, Santa Rosa, July 30, 31

EUROPE

• Chateau de France fire destroys chai and part of 2010 vintage
• Medvedev Signs Law Restricting Russian Beer, Alcohol Sales
• Globalization vs Italy’s Indigeneous Wines

THE UK

• New probe into government’s alcohol guidelines
• Battling Aunty’s anti-beer bias

CANADA

• Drink to the Greening of Ontario Wineries

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Winter rain lifts winegrowers’ spirits
• OZ: Bubbly times Down Under
• NZ: Marlborough wine business on the market
• OZ: Wolf Blass lands Sky Sponsorship deal

LATIN AMERICA

• Catena Zapata…In Argentina, The floral glories of Torrontes

SOUTH AFRICA

• Stellar reconciles differences with Fairtrade Foundation

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Lebanon’s interest in wine shows marked increase

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• People Want to Connect With You, Not Be Marketed to
• Brand Campaigns on Facebook Up 104 Percent
• Google Plus is the Social Backbone (and Facebook is not)

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine additives play a part
• Buying wine in restaurants

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Charlie Tolbert Joins Patianna Organic Vineyards
• Sustainability in Practice – Eco Wine Certification