NEWSFETCH – November 8, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Wine Shoppers: Tasting = Pricier Bottle Buys
• Wine Exporters Shift to Bulk Shipments
• Seattle’s Biggest Wine Store Opposes Privatization
• The elusive Chinese Consumer
• ‘Grand Cru’ and the Use of Quality Terms in the United States
• Technomic names seven leading U.S. restaurant trends for 2012
• Nielsen: How Online Ad Campaign Success Varies by Site Type
• Consumer Wine Awards Competition Set For Lodi in March 2012
• A Supplier Strikes Back: The Ride With, Work With
• Allen Wine Group  Expands, Names New Senior Manager and Staff Accountant
• Vintners’ Alliance Says Customers See Increase in Oct eCommerce Sales
• VinoVisit.com Releases Q3 2011 Tasting Room Reservations Report
• Commercial brokerages focus on wine

IT’S A PARKER KIND OF DAY (PLEASE DON’T BLAME US)

• Fine wine price falls decelerate; Parker’s “Magical 20” outperform the market
• Parker fever heats up Hong Kong
• Parker: A Happy Buddha?
• Parker vindicated by Bordeaux 2009
• 2009 CA Pinots and Parker’s Unprecedented Scores
• Robert Parker holds “greatest tasting ever of young wine” at Wine Future Hong Kong

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Tontine Says May Buy 60% of Major Chinese Wine producer
• Sotheby’s Q3 misses; bets on China

HARVEST 2011

• Sonoma Valley grape harvest wraps up
• Lake County winegrape growers finish late harvest

HEALTH

• The Impact of Drinking Wine

MEDIA MATTERS

• Cheap wine, postal service, wine on TV

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Running Alcohol Argument With Dan Berger
• Are you for Champagne disgorgement dates?

EUROPE

• Fire destroys Rioja bodega
• French Winery to Bottle Wine in Ethiopia
• 2011 Spanish Crop Figures Down
• Champagne price rise expected
• Italian Prices on the Rise
• Fighting China’s Fake Bordeaux
• France Reclassifies some Geographical Indication Zones

CANADA

• Winery owner Mitchell, 66, had ‘a great passion for life’

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Hunter Valley demands protection from Coal Gas
• OZ: Winemaker considers sale
• OZ: Winemaker raises his glass to foresight

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• India: Women drive surge in wine consumption
• Chinese Start To Embrace Wine, But Remain Finicky Consumers
• India: Wine producers expect record sales in FY12
• Wine Industry in China Set to Boom
• China’s wine industry ripens as local thirst grows

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Consumers will be rewarded for their social media status says Gary Vaynerchuk
• The case for QR codes

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Guitar Aficionado Takes On Wine And Rockers
• Why wine has no class