NEWSFETCH – November 10, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Wash Liquor board, retailers gear up to implement I-1183
• Mixed grape harvest for winemakers around the globe
• Who is stealing Germany’s grapes?
• Vintank, Social Candy Partner To Provide Free Facebook Marketing Tools
• Bar, Restaurant Alcohol Sales to Post Modest Gains in 2012
• Green Wine Summit Goes Global in Napa on November 30
• The Truth About Wine Prices Infographic
• France set to overtake Italy as top wine producer
• A Gathering of Garagistes in Paso
• Chinese buyers snap up Aussie wineries
• Bill Koch Sues Royal Wine Merchants
• What’s on Your Retail Wine Shelves, and What’s Not?
• Getting a Mortgage to Buy the Farm
• Meetings offer California specialty crop grant insight
• Line performance analysis means a ‘win of money’ for producers, Krones

WASHINGTON STATE PRIVATIZATION

• Washington State Says Goodbye to Prohibition-Era Liquor Controls
• Washington State’s Liquor Privatization Begin To Take Shape
• Washington State Cracks Open Three-Tier Mandates
• Privatized: Washington State Votes Yes

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Diageo : Asia-Pacific Call Notes
• Burgundy ‘sizzles’ in Hong Kong as top Bordeaux falls below estimates
• California Grapes Int’l, (OTC: GDHI”D”) Merger Approved

HEALTH

• How much do women really drink every week?
• Women boozers suffer quicker than men
• Wine and Serious Organic-Type Drugs Were Once Used Medicinally

MEDIA MATTERS

• Are wine blogs going tabloid?
• Does price matter in a wine review?
• Parker captivates audience in historic tasting (Video)
• The Rick Perry Gaffe—I’ve Got The Wine Angle

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine Expertise: Is there a development process? Or are some just born lucky?
• Why Cognac’s First Woman Cellar Master Says It’s OK to Add Coke: Interview
• Sense of balance helps with wine pairing
• Wine Wars World Tour Continues
• Daily Wine News: Almost Famous

WATER

• New lawsuit filed to stop wastewater from farms from getting into Delta
• Irrigator pooh-pooh’s selenium pollution lawsuit

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OH: Lucy Goose Wine Venture Takes Flight
• MI: Blossoming backyard vineyards
• NY: Volunteers help grow demand for New York wines
• PA: Lower Merion could be home to a winery

EUROPE

• New restrictions for Alsace Grands Crus
• Prosecco region ‘to grow fivefold’
• Rioja bodegas slow to embrace white varietals

THE UK

• Torrontés trumps as the favorite white wine
• Chablis to invest in UK market

CANADA

• France fights back for market share
• Canada’s Premium Wine Import Agency Hires Industry Leader

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine, Leave the guns outside

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Grape Wall Challenge III: Best red wines under RMB100
• Burgundy “has arrived” in Asia

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Vintank’s got a new BFF and they LOVE the wine industry!

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Oh, fair vino, whence cometh thou?
• Sniff The Cork
• Charles Krug hits full stride after replanting
• The Power of Intent in Biodynamic Wine

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Cupcake Vineyards Named ‘Wine Brand of the Year’ by Market Watch Leaders