NEWSFETCH – September 21, 2011

TOP NEWS

• SABMiller Completes Deal to Buy Foster’s After Raising Bid to A$9.9 Billion
• Drinks brands ban children from their Facebook pages
• Distilled Spirits Council Issues New Social Media Marketing Guidelines
• In California, Wine executives bullish on future
• Calif Budget cuts have ‘profound effect’ at ag universities
• Daniel Rogov Helped Shape More Than Israeli Wines
• WA tourism, wine areas stagnate
• Can Wine TV Succeed?
• Strange fruit on Oregon vine yields tasty wine
• Delta advocates say Salazar is ‘badly mistaken’ about estuary situation
• The New Prohibitionists
• Patz & Hall Names Hinchman Sales Mgr, Eastern U.S.
• VinPerfect Makes First Sale

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Moody’s lifts Brown-Forman credit rating
• Facebook deal with Diageo fuels under-age drinking fears
• Foster’s says beer decline is easing
• Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 Index down 0.1 per cent year to date

HARVEST 2011

• Heat kicks North Coast harvest into high gear
• Bordeaux 2011: ‘Back to reality,’ say vintners

AROUND THE UNITED STATES

• MD: Annapolis vineyard launches its own winery
• PA: PLCB pulls the plug on wine kiosks in grocery stores
• PA: No love lost on closed wine kiosks

EUROPE

• Grape Transformations: Piemonte’s Twin Tornados
• Germany: Thieves Bag Premium Wine Grapes Overnight

CANADA

• 40 Knots and UnConventional Wisdom new to BC wine scene

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: A Riesling Scrum

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Tesco withdraws from the Japanese market
• Acker Merrall’s Hong Kong Auction Sets Records As Chinese Bidders Take To Burgundy
• 2011 Shanghai International Wine and Spirit Expo

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Do I Have to Endure the Wine Opening Rigamarole?
• Winemaker Q&A: Charles Back, Fairview