NEWSFETCH – August 2, 2011

TOP NEWS

• People Drink in Tough Times? Not True: Diageo CEO
• DeBonis Back As Interim CEO At Ascentia: Updated From Last Night
• Wine arson suspect at war with his ex-lawyer
• NASS amends 2010 final grape crush report
• San Joaquin Valley leading economic indicator down
• Funds available to meet ag producers’ credit needs
• Crushpad Names Peter Ekman CEO
• Asiana Wine Best Overall International First Class Wines
• Alcohol sales hit travel retail high
• Crying wolf over methyl iodide
• Stink bug invasion puts entomologist in demand
• Revisiting the Volstead Act: The Power Behind Prohibition
• Massive Fire Destroys Grape Bins
• Sacramento Valley farmers lose area-of-origin water rights lawsuit
• Reconsidering Boxed Wine
• ‘Bachelorette’ spurns Sonoma winemaker
• The e-mail one never wants to get from a winery in August
• The top 8 wine TV ads, Part One
• Wine and Providing a Glaring Glimpse of the Obvious

HEALTH

• Sulfites & Headaches

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine blogging, wine blog awards, restaurant wine
• When it comes to wine writing, more is more
• How I Fell Back In Love With Food-And-Wine Pairing

EUROPE

• Bordeaux in a can?
• Invisible Wineries: Europe’s Controversial Cooperatives
• Tough economic conditions for Swedish wine production

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Chinese interest in Hunter vineyards
• OZ: NSW wine grape growers very pessimistic
• NZ: Rising dollar hits winemakers
• OZ: 2nd top Hunter wine tourism property sold to Chinese business interests in as many weeks.
• OZ: Winemaker seeing red over competitor’s similar labels
• OZ: Coles bulks up for liquor war

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Xinjiang Yanxi: Wine Industry aims at achieving over 3 billion park
• Carlsberg and SABMiller invest further in China

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina: Boost in the UK’s £7- £10 price segments
• Los Morros, The New Winemaking Zone of the Maipo Alto Valley in Chile

SOUTH AFRICA

• South African Wine Makers Optimistic Smile

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• LinkedIn Latinos
• 5 Big Mistakes To Avoid in Your QR Code Marketing Campaign