NEWSFETCH – October 17, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Midwest Wine & Spirits Retailer Thrives By Thinking, Acting Locally
• Australia bounces back
• Thank you SO much, PETA: Calif Says Goodbye to Foie Gras
• Are Deal Sites Pursuing a Policy of Price Manipulation?
• Mexican labourers keep B.C. wine flowing
• ‘Responsible drinking’ ads fuel binges
• Concha y Tots Tops List of World’s Most Admired Wine Brands
• Crazy new approach for Lodi wine industry
• Naked Wine and Occupy Wall Street: Similarities
• Nielsen: Stock Up or Quick Trip. How Consumers Around the World Shop
• Sea Smoke declares own vineyards “Grand Cru” on the label
• Chasing the Omni-Present Consumer
• Metz named director of Mendo Winegrape and Wine Commission
• First Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival Kicks Off
• Top 10 chefs using social media
• The 10 Worst Aspects Of America’s Food Scene
• Biodynamic winery on Clear Lake is in the swim

WASHINGTON STATE PRIVATIZATION BATTLE

• Costco refines pitch on liquor privatization
• WTruth-Squadding The Claims
• I-1183 ad exaggerates

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Whisky investment ‘as good as wine’, says FT
• Constellation Richard & Robert Sands Sell Combined $9.2M in Shares
• Colgin Cellars: Superb Wines with an Excellent Return on Investment
• Click, Click, Sold! Bidding for Bottles Online

HARVEST 2011

• Sonoma County Grape prices on the rise
• Constellation mechanizes some high-end harvest
• Napa Harvest Live…Goes Live
• BC: Late harvest adds to wine makers’ woes
• Mendo: Bringing in the grapes a challenge this year
• Cool, wet days slow a late Santa Barbara harvest
• Spanish Grape Prices Climb, Output May Fall:Ciatti Co.
  
• California’s 2011 vintage poses key dilemmas
• In Calif, wine grapes good but in short supply
• El Dorado Wine Harvest Panning Out
• April freeze took big bite out of Central Coast grape yield

HEALTH

• Does Wine Reduce Cancer Risk?

MEDIA MATTERS

• Alder Yarrow Joins JancisRobinson.com
• Why nobody writes bad things about wine

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MATTERS OF TASTE

• Making (non)sense of terroir

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• ID: State wine industry gaining ground
• OH: Owner happy with small winery
• OR: Many vineyards expect late harvest
• TX: Local winery one of several drought-affected businesses

EUROPE

• Chinese wine students are boon for Bordeaux
• Quarts de Chaume to become Loire Valley’s first Grand Cru
• Penedes to divide into ‘six sub-regions’

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Frustrated Australia seeks alternatives to Doha trade talks
• OZ: Barossa bristles at risk to tourism with flight cancellations
• OZ: Wine Australia targets 2012

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Muslim women protest in Jaipur to demand ban on wine
• Wine sale registers 41 per cent growth in Delhi

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina’s white enigma
• Los Morros Highlighted As A New Winemaking Region In Chile
• Argentinean Wines iOS App Puts Winery Info in Your Hands

SOUTH AFRICA

• Is white Pinotage the answer?

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Bekaa Valley: Lebanon’s wine country

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Nielsen: How Social Media Impacts Brand Marketing
• 5 Ways to Connect to the Local Food Movement Online
• An SEO guide for Wineries Part 6

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Old California Wines
• Price and quality and age
• Laura Spinetta, Shenandoah Valley (Calif.) Pioneer