NEWSFETCH – August 16, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Domestic Wine Growth Slows, $20+ Category Tanks, Imports Show Signs of Life
• More Details On Russian River Vineyards Bankruptcy
• Bisin: A magic ingredient that could keep food (and wine) fresh for years
• Standing alone: David Dearie, Treasury Wine Estates
• Seattle Winery Closing Is Sign of the Times
• Washington winemakers to promote wines in India
• Whither Women Winemakers?
• Listening sessions for new farm bill set
• Marketing Wine to India
• Supermarket wines pressuring the Aussie market
• How To Buy A Vineyard Estate
• Alcohol Makers Set Fewer Sustainability Goals
• Climate Change Offers Up a New Wine List
• Willet’s Winery overcomes obstacles, presses forward
• Sonoma in the crucible
• Ceja: From wine to beer
• Designing a Successful Wine-Storage Area in Self-Storage Facilities
• The Daily Outrage: Wine industry squeezing taxpayers for subsidies

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Beam unveils new corporate branding
• Can Mooncakes Predict the (Wine) Futures?
• Liv-ex: August price slide continues

HEALTH

• Finding BPA-free Plastic Bags in Boxed Wines
• Debate over warning labels on alcohol heats up

MEDIA MATTERS

• Did Twitter and Facebook kill (new) blogs?
• I Like Your Wine Blog, But….

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Build A Better Tasting Note
• The Prejudiced Palate
• In Defense of the 100pt Rating System
• Let your wine speak to you
• OK, so now I have tasted a Marcassin pinot noir … and liked it!

WATER

• Why Cleaned Wastewater Stays Dirty In Our Minds

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Applying Oak Extracts to Grape Vines: A Novel Approach to Producing Oak-Style Wines?
• GPS dependability vital to agriculture

HARVEST 2011

• Avoiding heat stress at harvest
• OZ: Poor quality exports predicted after wet harvest
• WA: Wine grape harvest to be down about 16 percent
• Wet summer weather may herald good French wine

AROUND THE UNITED STATES

• AR: ATU-Ozark hosts regional viticulture meeting
• AZ: State’s wine industry continues to grow
• NY: Finger Lakes region does not yet have an ‘it’ grape
• NY: Wineries Say Heavy Rains Will Have Little Impact on Long Island Grape Harvest
• PA: PLCB Knew Wine Kiosk Plan Sucked, Went Through With it Anyway

EUROPE

• Russia is focused on New World wines
• Champagne increases yields by 20% to cope with demand
• Winemakers Convert Pomerol’s Century-Old Horse Track to Vines

THE UK

• Australian and US wines under-represented in on-trade, says WDR
• Perrier-Jouët anniversary edition lands at Heathrow T5

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Concern about Chinese looking for investment opportunity in grain belt
• NZ: Amor-Bendall Winery goes into liquidation
• NZ: Reds at the ready
• NZ: Protest reflects wine industry’s web of failed payments
• AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL WINE IMMERSION PROGRAM ENTERS THIRD YEAR

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Fame wines auctioned in Yunnan
• Sogrape sets Foot in Mumbai Again

MARKETING & PROMOTION

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Internet Retailing Interview: Rowan Gormley, Naked Wines
• Welcome to the new ‘social media fatigue’
• It’s official: Facebook is the 21st century Nielsen family

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Nuance and Life

CHARITABLE & GREEN AND SOCIAL CAUSES

• Napa Winery Pioneers Solar Floatovoltaics
• What’s Red, White & Green? Wine Packaging Greens Up