NEWSFETCH – August 23, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Gallo’s Barefoot, TWG’s Cupcake Pacing Off-Premise Wine Sales In 2011
• Export funds helps U.S. agriculture enter global marketplace
• This Woman Helped Turn Spanish Wine Into A $2 Billion Export Industry
• Cold climate wine, wine trademarks, wine scandals
• Santa Barbara Vineyard Gets Fracked
• Aussie domestic wine suffers as imports take over
• Profits: Getting by on a wing, a prayer–and another breakout session
• VinTank, Beverage Media to Syndicate Wine Content to 200 Retailers
• American Express Offers Businesses Points for Buying Online Ads
• Reed’s, Inc. Expands Distribution Into Total Wine & More Stores
• New York vineyard Pioneer David Mudd, 90, Dies
• From the Bad Ideas Department: 9/11 Memorial Wine
• What Women Drink
• Gilt Launches Luxury Wine Site
• Grape Market: Don’t be taken in by romance of wine

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Foster’s to Return $520 Million to Shareholders to Thwart SABMiller Offer
• Foster’s CEO Is Open to ‘Sensible’ Takeover Talks After Spurning SABMiller
• Fortune Brands Announces Pricing of Tender Offers
• Treasury aligns its star brands
• Treasury Wine gives Asia bigger taste of Grange
• The Never Hide interview: Diageo GTME’s Jane Ewing
• Foster’s Group 2011 Full Year Results (.pdf)

HEALTH

• Why an extra glass of wine (or three) does more harm to older drinkers
• The Rise of Binge Drinking in China

DIRECT SHIPPING & THE THREE-TIERED SYSTEM

• Supporters of Anti-Wine Law Suffer Setback
• CEI Releases Paper on CARE Act
• Louisiana Increases Volume Limit for DTC Shipping

MEDIA MATTERS

• Go Read The Blogs—I Did and Was Amazed

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine pairings: Two wine gurus take our questions
• Wine Matches For Junk Food

HARVEST 2011

• California Crop Weather: table, wine grape harvests underway
• Flagging down a cab challenges North Coast vintners
• Grape harvest under way in Sonoma County
• BC: Ripe for the picking
• Harvest begins in Montalcino, heat spikes not a concern according to winemaker

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Leafroll: When Life Hands You Lemons…

AROUND THE UNITED STATES

• MI: Winery Releases state’s first Appassimento-style wine
• NY: New Owners for the Finger Lakes’ Silver Thread Winery
• NY: 2011 Summer Growers Conference
• NY: Seneca County winery opens after month’s delay
• VA: A second harvest in Fishersville

ACADEMIA

• Australia to stage University Challenge for wine
• San Diego State Rolls Out New Wine Studies Program

EUROPE

• Parker Point pinching on 2010
• Soaking & Poking: Italian Wine Tourism Fieldnotes
• Video: Michel Chapoutier over Roussillon
• New winemaker at Dom de l’Arlot
• Jacques Devauges to replace Olivier Leriche at Domaine de l’Arlot

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Farmers run out of time to apply for exit grants
• OZ: Wine sales dry up as drinkers cut back

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chinese buyers take a shine to Okanagan wines
• Fine wine galore! Hong Kong’s buried treasure
• Why wine in India gives you sticker shock
• Some chilis with your cabernet? In Asia, sure

SOUTH AFRICA

• WOSA hits back in human rights row
• HRW alleges abuses in S.African wine industry
• The ‘new’ Old World or the ‘old’ New World?

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• App Smart Extra: Another Round of Wine Apps
• Wine Road app lets oenophiles find the best wineries