NEWSFETCH – November 29, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Resveratrol Improves Cardiovascular Health in Obese Adults: Clinical Trial
• Treasury Wine goes upmarket in the UK
• The Big and Hot (and Not) Wine List
• Cardboard beverage can designed to meet sustainability demands
• Are ‘daily deals’ dying a slow death?
• Music’s Effect On Our Perception Of Wine
• Chinese buyer outbids most for wines of Alain Delon
• Hopland vineyard taps law to ‘dedicate’ water to fish
• Washington makes more Pinot Gris than Oregon. Where are all the wines?
• Cork, It Ain’t Nothing But a Heartbreaker
• Global Warming No Longer A Threat To California Wine
• How an Ancient Persian Legend Gave Birth to a Petaluma Gap Winery
• Ostensibly about Santa Barbara
• Small Washington State wine shops feel shut out with passage of Initiative 1183
• Pennsylvania Gov. pushes for privatization
• Oregon’s Antica Terra was up to the challenge of 2011 harvest
• Egg-Shaped Wine Tanks Whet Appetite

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Diageo Employs Robots In Clackmannanshire Cooperage
• Pernod Ricard to distribute Yao Ming wines
• Christie’s sees tepid wine, modern art sale in HK
• Liv-ex Champagne 25 Index outshines Claret Chip

MEDIA MATTERS

• 2012 wine blogging conference set for Turkey
• Pay a blogger, moscato, wine labels
• How 7 Years of Wine Blogging Will Change You
• The Wine Ethicist

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Riverland growers vow to rebel against water plan
  
• OZ: Scientist says water plan strikes the right balance
• OZ: Wineries report damage to vines ‘minimal’ in Margaret River fires
• NZ: Italian wine from New Zealand
• NZ: More Kiwi wines on the way
• OZ: Winery concerts tipped to get green light

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China wine labels: Does ‘E-mail’ wine deserve save or delete?
• Burgundy Steals the Show at Asia Auctions

EUROPE & THE UK

• Lebanon builds momentum
• Barrel-aged Viura booming in Rioja
• Aussie wines thrill at inaugural wine school
• Scottish university to research effect of minimum pricing

CANADA

• BC aims for record ice wine harvest