NEWSFETCH – November 7, 2011

TOP NEWS

• New Zealand wine growers rely on U.S. to drink up
• Robert Parker admits his influence on wine world is “on the wane”
• Marijuana plants seeds of violence in Sonoma Wine Country
• That Walmart wine is the wine equivalent of cheese food
• Global wine community agrees system for CO2 emissions
• La Nina to pay California another visit
• Retailers: Can’t we all just get along?
• Winegrowers poised to market Calistoga AVA
• Bordeaux Tries To Fight Price Fear With Buff Tastings, Labels Under $50
• New owners expand Lodi winery
• Liv-ex: Fine wine must crack supply chain issues to achieve full potential
• CDFA To Hold 2012 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Workshops
• Randall Grahm predicts a future with nutritional wines
• Shortage of chemical to fight downy mildew in Aussie vineyards
• Kalama wine bottle factory in Washington to reopen next summer
• Globally, How much money to farmers in 2010?
• Speaker Line Up for Eastern Winery Exposition
• Stuart Cellars winery renamed Bel Vino, gets new owner
• Profile: Former Geyser Peak Owner Henry Trione

REGULATION, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Privatizing Hard Liquor Sales Creates More Questions Than Answers
• Prohibition May Be Ending in 18 States in Boon for Jim Beam
• TTB Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Allow Vintage Dating on Country of Origin Wines
• Is Pennsylvania Getting Out of the Booze Business?
• Costco in spirited bid to privatize liquor sales
• Costco pours money into Washington state liquor vote

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Tejon Ranch (NYSE: TRC) Revenues Up, Winegrape Production Increases
• Oppenheimers to invest in SA wine?
• People with a nose for profits look to red wine
• Liv-Ex: The Fine Wine Investment Market – An Inside View

HARVEST 2011

• French Wine Harvest Ends, Production to Rise to Five-Year High
• OR: Wine Industry Predicting ‘Miracle’ Harvest
• Challenging Year for Petite Sirah, Calaveras Harvest Report
• Night Harvesting at Shafer Vineyards
• OR: Harvesting at Benton-Lane
• Grape harvest yields great results

HEALTH

• Wine lovers take breast cancer study in stride
• Wine May Please the Palate but Not the Immune System
• Moderate alcohol consumption could create gastrointestinal risk
• Alcohol, Asthma and Allergies Don’t Mix
• Wines without alcohol?

MEDIA MATTERS

• If critics are going to pronounce on regions, they should at least know them in depth
• Pay For Play Wine Criticism: Everybody On Board
• Boisset/Lockwood’s Nuanced PR Release = Confusion

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Parker speaks out against rising alcohol
• Wine and food, food and wine, what’s the big deal?
• A Critique of Comparative Blind Tasting
• Which wine is better?

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Reducing sulphites is a scientific matter. Eliminating them is impossible
• Pesticide Storage Tips Offered as Winter Moves In
• Spy in the sky can eye a good drop
• Raptor Saves Vineyards Big Bucks

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY:  Can the wine industry help boost state economy?
• UT: DABC commission incompetent.
• VA: The Hague Winery is recovering

ACADEMIA

• OR: Vineyard course registration open
• WI: Winemaking courses growing at NWTC
• UC Davis Pushes Green Winery Envelope
• Southern W&S of FL Donates $10 Million for Scholarships

EUROPE

• Champagne Demand Increases Worldwide, Prices In U.S. To Move Up
• Burgundy seeks to create lasting links in China by connecting wine and tea culture
• New decree on Italian wine labels
• Fladgate buys up Real Companhia Velha
• Krug to show disgorgement date
• Russians to enjoy Moldovan wine again

CANADA

• New Brunswick Wines By Way of Minnesota Grapes

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Disease threatens grapes
• NZ: Late frost plays havoc with Wakatipu vineyards
• OZ: Peter Lehmann rebrands Aussie wines
  
• OZ: Wine maker opposes coal-seam gas mining
• OZ: Shiraz yield expected to be down in the Riverina
• OZ: Is the sun setting on vineyards?
• NZ: Wine Industry Acknowledges Stalwart with Lifetime Award
• NZ: Giesen to open cellar door

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China has just surpassed Japan as the biggest market for German wine
• Hong Kong toast of wine world amid global woes
• China on course for 100 million case market in 10 years
• Cheers to India
• Chinese consumers need time to understand wines they like
• Answering the old world versus new conundrum
• Burgundy Records Drive $14.5 Million H.K. Sale, Year’s Biggest

SOUTH AFRICA

• A black, female winemaker — breaking down barriers in South Africa
• South African government contests Western Cape mining veto

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Contemplating the Hermeunutics Of Wine As Art
• Some long awaited answers about Petite Sirah
• More than wine from these vines
• A day in the life in Washington wine country (w/galleries)
• Merlot falls from grace