NEWSFETCH – October 28, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Economy Squeezes Middle Class & Mid-Priced Wines
• Diageo Aims to Stem Europe Sales Decline This Year
• Fine wine prices in retreat, says Bordeaux Index
• Joe Gallo To Keynote San Joaquin Valley Winegrowers Annual Meeting & Forum
• California Fund Ditches Vineyard Managers
• Nielsen: Low alcohol market hits 1 million mark in UK
• New winery opens in Templeton Gap
• CDFA Secretary Ross Welcomes USDA Funding for Organic Research
• Stealth Wines, and the New American Negociant
• How Wine Got Little Red Riding Hood Booted From Calif Schools
• Helicopter drying, Penn’s stores, sexy V&E – sipped & spit
• Jess Jackson’s bid to rename Black Mountain rejected
• Newest Alcohol Rules and Regs in Latest “Fact Book”

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Costco is trying to fix a liquor problem that doesn’t exist
• Costco Slammed for Booze Deregulation Blitz

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Talking innovation with Diageo’s James Thompsn
• Ste. Michelle Sales Leap 23% In Third Quarter
• Brown-Forman Names Interim Director of Investor Relations
• Diageo shakes up commercial cocktail market with Bag in Box

HARVEST 2011

• Sierra Foothills Wineries Harvest Reports – Building Recognition for the Region
• Mother Nature stomps on US wine harvest

HEALTH

• Alcohol linked to better survival after heart attack
• Healthy Mom Habits

MEDIA MATTERS

• Announcing “White’s Wines”
• Natalie MacLean’s Unquenchable Search for the Best Cheap Wines
• The Real Truth About The Wine News

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Why We Can’t Tell Good Wine From Bad

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MD: Wine connoisseurs want another pop at repealing corkage law
• NC: Grandfather Vineyard hosts grand opening
• OR: Brand new winery, brand new brand

THE UK

• Luminar collapse a sign of troubled times
• NZ’s Cloudy Bay targets “culture loving urbanites”
• No consumers allowed at London wine fair

CANADA

• Plan now for the Vancouver International Wine Festival

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine growers avoid first disease outbreak
• OZ: Scientist develops GM grape vines

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Liv-ex in Hong Kong

SOUTH AFRICA

• Government sues KZN wine estate owners

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• From Vine to Barrel: A Masterclass from a Napa Valley
• John Lasseter Opens Up About Secret Winery for First Time
• Born in the USA: America’s Norton grape
• Wineries conjure up weird labels for the creepy season
• How Do Dave Matthews, Banana Republic And More Branded Wines Stack Up?
• Crazy wine prices item
• Q&A with Cristina Mariani-May
• Napa gears for film fest