NEWSFETCH – August 31, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Yellow Tail Creates a New Theme to Help Spur Growth
• Calif grape harvest delayed
• How Does a Wine Monopoly Lose Money?
• Gilt Taste Wine v. Lot18: The Battle For Online Wine Sales
• California farm revenues reach new high
• “All wines work well in the Asian market”
• Has the BEA Already Documented A Double Dip Recession?
• Health care comes to Oregon vineyard workers through Salud mobile clinics
• United Farm Workers march through Lodi To Support Card Check
  
• New NLRB regulation requires posting of workers’ rights to unionize
• Sacramento County Drafts Winery Ordinance
• Mark Bernstein Joins Vin Divino as Western Area Manager
• Scientists discover sulphur can be good for grapes
• Israel: Rise of the phoenix
• Nielsen shares Secrets of Aussie Success (video)
• Milk is top ag product in California

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Liv-ex Claret Chip losses in context
• Lafite, Romanee-Conti to Lead $8.3 Million Christie’s Hong Kong Wine Sale
• Winery Investing Beyond Cashing-Out
• Stocks to Watch: Brown-Forman, Fresh Market and More

HEALTH

• Napa Sheriff’s Office Debuts “Stop and Think” Winery Campaign
• A shared bottle of wine could kill you
• Alcohol advertising on Facebook accused of reaching out to kids
• Alcohol adverts face being canned

DIRECT SHIPPING & THE THREE-TIERED SYSTEM

• August Updates From Free The Grapes

MEDIA MATTERS

• How Big a Problem Is ‘Review Spam’?
• Wine communication: the elephant in the room
• Young wine writer award-winners’ articles – a guide
• Besides wine, what Gary Vee has brought to the table
• Pepi: Inexcusable Website Behavior
• Virginia and the Wine Bloggers Conference

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Being Able To Describe A Wine Does NOT Make You Awesome

HARVEST 2011

• Wineries prepare events to coincide with harvest
• Freezing temps earlier this year hit Central Coast grape growers hard
• On Site for the First Day of Napa Valley’s 2011 Harvest
• Celebrating Arrival of the First Grapes Harvested in Napa Valley
• Iowa Wineries invite public to pick grapes
• Texas Vintners feeling effects of drought
• Unusual grape growing year for Livermore winemakers

AROUND THE UNITED STATES

• CO: Raising state’s wine-making profile
• MN: CLC part of grape, wine consortium
• PA: Wine on the web would help state vintners

EUROPE

• Italian winemakers consider new varieties
• Outrage as Montalcino proposes blended Rosso

THE UK

• English wine producers fear ‘British’ confusion

CANADA

• Consumers dumbfounded over fake B.C. wines

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Winegrowers warned of disease threat

LATIN AMERICA

• Chile’s Undurraga family back in wine business

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Pepi: A Winery Web Site Gone Horribly, Horribly Wrong
• 8 Ways To Use Your Blog To Improve Your Business
• Search Optimization Is Still Part of Social Media Marketing
• Older Facebook Users Click Ads, Younger Users ‘Like’
• Can HTML5 replace an iPad app? Financial Times to find out

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• In Vino, Veritas: In Wine, There is Considerable Truth
• America’s Rhine Rangers: California’s Challengers, Europe’s Saviors
• The Well-Kept Wine
• Food Network chef smackdown: Bourdain v.s Deen
• Dan Berger: Muscat comes out from the shadows
• France underground: a wine map stylized to the Metro map
• Digging Graves
• The monks knew how to make wine
• Amador Foothill Winery puts sangiovese in the pink