NEWSFETCH – September 29, 2011

TOP NEWS

• EU Wine Reform Targets The USA
• Global restaurant traffic flat or down in 2Q
• Geyser Peak Winery Facing Bankruptcy? Just Rumors Says CEO
• Combating Wine Fraud: Testing Authenticity of Without Damage
• Lake County: Tulip Hill Winery for sale, closes tasting room
• Healdsburg: Too many tasting rooms?
• Regional Wine Week 2011
• Competition Heats for NW Wine Shipping
• Wine, Beer, Spirits and God in Georgia
• Ken Burns’ Prohibition: Good television, careful politics
• Is Craft Beer the New Wine?
• Wineries’ vegan awakening

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Diageo Brushes Aside Global Growth Fears, Expects Sales To Rise
• Forget stocks, the ultra-rich turn to art & wine

HARVEST 2011

• Napa Valley Chardonnay Harvest & Flavor Profiles
• WA: Harvest Report – September 29th Edition
• Late harvest may hurt Central Coast vintners
• California Harvest Shifts into High Gear
• Nevada City/Nevada County – Grape Harvest
• Timing of harvest determines quality
• Bountiful grape harvest in central Ill.
• NY: Law change would speed grapes to market

HEALTH

• Wine doesmaybedoesdoesnot affect health
• Red wine ingredient resveratrol stops breast cancer growth
• Public Health Institute’s Alcohol Research Group Becomes a WHO Collaborating Center

MATTERS OF TASTE

• On Champagne: Keynes or Adam Smith?
• Expert Bashing: There they go again
• Why are there no “best before” dates on wine?
• Alice Feiring Wants to Convince You That Naked Wine Is Better

ACADEMIA

• Study Business of Wine, Fashion, or Gaming; Earn an M.B.A.
• WSU’s First Certified-Organic Wine Grape Vineyard Harvests First Study on Weed Control
• NC: Surry partners for national viticulture and enology initiative

EUROPE

• Spanish wine exports to UK increase
• Chateau Palmer, Domaine Leroy…Farce and Deception at Fauchon Paris

CANADA

• Cool Climate Chardonnay
• Young PEI entrepreneur opens winery
• Wine making business celebrating reopening with new owners

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Happy days are here again

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Successful cases of Argentine wineries on the web
• Groupon’s New Deal: Direct E-commerce
• Is Facebook dying? What the statistics say