NEWSFETCH – 11/11/11

TOP NEWS

• California Winery Owned and Operated by Veterans
• U.S. Online Holiday Spending To Grow 15% To Nearly $60 Billion
• High-End Table Wines Growing Fastest
• Liv-ex: Fine wine’s online revolution
• Italian Consumer Products Group Purchases US Wine Import Company
• Employer-Based Health Insurance Continues to Trend Down
• Ultraviolet wine purification lowers chemicals need
• Lodi wine the focus of new multimedia ad campaign
• Master Sommeliers Team Launches VinNobles Wine Flash Site
• Start Me Up! A profile of Wine Demon
• Hawke To Be New Michel-Schlumberger Winery Head
• Serial suitor woos Michel-Schlumberger

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Costco, Washington state and liquor regulation
• CF Answers Your Questions: Liquor Privatization

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Willamette Valley Vineyards Posts a Profit for Q3 2011
• Spectrum Announce FY-Q1-2012 Financial Results

HARVEST 2011

• OR: Longest hanging fruit
• Many Oregon vineyards expect late harvest

HEALTH

• Alcohol and Breast Cancer: The risk may not be as great as feared
• Before you blame the wine …

MEDIA MATTERS

• Nouveau: King of all wine marketing ploys
• Thanksgiving Lessons for PR Pros
• Random House Tests New Book Tour Model With Natalie MacLean
• When I Look at a Wine, I See…

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MI: State wine industry tops 1 million gallons
• NY: Victorian mansion turned into inn at winery in Naples

THE UK

• Bleak holidays forecast for UK retail trade
• WSTA launches new wine investment guide
• Oddbins payout welcome news

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: New producer grabs attention at first taste
• OZ: Winemakers focus on quality over quantity
• OZ: NSW vineyard pioneers Italian grapes
• OZ: Ex-grapegrowers needed for new project

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Georgian beverages earn success on Asian market

LATIN AMERICA

• Salentein to up Argentine on-trade presence

SOUTH AFRICA

• SA wine export decline puts industry under pressure

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Stimmell: Comparing the same grape variety, grown worlds apart
• Wine: Fast food favourites
• WholeVine finds new use for winery byproducts
• Five Creative Ways to Drink Wine
• Wine giving tips for novice vinophiles

EPIC FAIL!

• State Board of Food and Agriculture to Discuss Extreme Climate Risks on November 16 in Sacramento Event Associated with Governor Brown’s Extreme Events Conference in December

Long, dragging headline. And is this event in November or December?