NEWSFETCH – November 9, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Voters kick WA out of liquor business
• Initiative 1183 passes: What’s next?
• Nielsen: Table Wines $20 And Up Continue To Drive U.S. Market
• Liv-ex: Parker bolsters trade
• ‘Super committee’ shapes the next federal farm bill
• OIV sets new green standards for wine trade
• More oversupply woes for Aussie wine industry
• Listen Up, Public Nannies: Negative press boosts energy drink sales
• Terlato Adds Bordeaux’s Chateau Timberlay To Portfolio

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Washington State Sends A Harsh Message on Alcohol Regulation
• Washington state liquor sales headed for privatization
• GA: Sunday alcohol sales prove popular
  
• MD: Alcohol tax maneuverings were sordid
• PA: Should Liquor Sales Be Privatized?

HARVEST 2011

• Cool weather took toll on Calif harvest
• 2011 Harvest Report from Amador Foothill Winery
• Barclay brothers bring in first Sark harvest
• Mixed grape harvest for winemakers around the globe
• Austrians thrilled with 2011 vintage
• Wet harvest? Try flash detente

MATTERS OF TASTE

• A Stubborn Cork. A Cheap Towel. A Bloody Mess Averted.
• To serve and protect (wine): Use Gas? A Pump? Or …?
• Are Wine Critics “Wasting” Points On A Wine’s Color?
• Mineral Wines: Are You Actually Tasting the Dirt?
• When Facebook Wine Recommendations Go Bad.
• Behind the scenes at Jancis Robinson MW Wine Future tasting

MEDIA MATTERS

• I Smell a #Slatepitch
• Grape Transformations: Oregon Origins
• As Magazines and Retail Converge, Where Will the Editorial Line Be Drawn?
• Bottoms up to defying ‘real editor’

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Former president to speak at World Ag Expo
• Litigation and Legislation– Pesticides and Clean Water – H.R. 872

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OK: Wineries OK After Quake
• TN: Georgia Winery Branches Into Chattanoga
• WA: Winery makes an impression and statement about tourism

CANADA

• Levelling the playing field for Canadian wines

AUSTRALIA

• Phylloxera surveys to boost Victoria viticulture
• Cassegrain Winery on the market
• Rose’ Revolution gets underway
• Bower joins Casella Wines
• Winemaker threatens to leave industry over Coal Gas

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• India: Wine sale registers 41% growth in Delhi
• Bordeaux pressures China to recognise appellation
• Missing wine baffles Hong Kong cops

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Lack of esteem for Israeli  sommeliers damages professionalism.

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Groupon Allows Businesses to Recycle Daily Deals
• Ten DOs and DON’Ts for An Effective Hispanic-Targeted Social Media Campaign
• Restaurant Daily Deals: Customers’ Responses to Social Couponing

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The Astounding  Complexity of Wine
• Don’t pass up the Paso Robles wine region
• Penfolds helps collectors preserve valuable old wines

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Profit Coach: Performance Strategies for Wine and Spirits Firms

MEH!

• Simi Winery Celebrates its 135th Year Producing Exceptional Wines Through its …

Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back! “Exceptional Wines” indeed! No credible, third-party proof that the wines have been exceptional every year for 135 years. AND … get to the point: By failing to write a short headline that puts the most important news first, this wandering headline tells the reader there is nothing worth clicking on. AND …  this head would not have dragged on so far on if the unsupported  self-congratulations had been deleted.