NEWSFETCH – December 7, 2011

TOP NEWS

• Unions sue to block Washington liquor privatization initiative from taking effect
• Napa’s Global Wine Partners Prospers As Biggest Client Loses
• U.S. Restaurant Traffic Will End the Year Flat
• Calif Farm Bureau Pres: It’s time for us to reclaim California
• Why Marketers Should Pop the Bubbly Year-Round
• With Rude Names, Wine Stops Minding Its Manners
• Alcohol Regulation Roundup
• Shanghai, Lodi meet at wine, ag summit
• Terlato Bolsters Argentina Lineup Via Link With Javier Catena’s Cuarto Dominio
• Final ruling: “Organic wine” cannot have added sulfites
• Grapevine Moth: Almost Gone, Not Forgotten
• Occupy Napa (and Sonoma and Burgundy and Bordeaux)
• Wine fight escalates: corks vs. twist caps
• Forget Corks and ScrewTops – How About Pop-Top Wine?
• Can we agree about anything with fine wine today?
• Reps&Buyers…that little white sweater top

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Liquid Investments: City Grandee Buys Into ‘Goldman Sachs Of Wine’
• Australian ‘Champions’ to Restore Balance in Foreign Deals, Barclays Says
• Russian Standard buys CEDC share for $25m

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Kosher Wine: Can You Tell the Difference?
• Making wines Americans will drink
• Geology and Terroir
• Waldin: “I still get ridiculed for being biodynamic”

MEDIA MATTERS – PARKERGATE EDITION

• What did Jay Miller really do?
• Paid to sip? Wine scandal swirls around Baltimore critic
• Pancho Campo MW in Valencia – marketing spiel
• Jay Miller’s resignation hits The Baltimore Sun – ‘hard look at Campo’
• Cha, cha, cha, changes…Spanish wine needs to learn from the Pancho affair
• “Booze Junket Payola Scandal” – Less Than Meets the Eye?

WATER & SUSTAINABILITY

• SAfrican winemakers leap over to lighter bottles
• Court considers Colorado River water agreement
• Wanger cuts legal ties to Westlands Water District
• Aussie Water scheme job hopes
• Judge who became attorney for California water district steps away from the job

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• A Good Winery is Closing, Another Gets Back to Basics
• Discovercaliforniawines.com Consumer Website Debuts New Lifestyle Content
• Co-op Winery for Downtown Napa?
• Wine industry specialist Ausburn joins BPM as senior manager

EUROPE & THE UK

• Robbers make off with rare champagne worth $31,000 from UK wine warehouse
• Accolade Wines gains new listings for South African portfolio
• Russia’s Imported Wine Market Returns To Growth Mode
• Brintex and IWC team up to link unrepresented wineries to UK buyers
• Banning alcohol adverts ‘pointless’
• Chinese film star buys St Emilion property

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: The riesling revolution
• OZ: Winery counts cost of blaze
• OZ: Woollies overly ambitious about increase in private label products: analyst
• NZ: Aaron Bilcich the new winemaker at Soljans Estate Winery
• OZ: Gov’t approves laxative agent as wine additive

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Oregon winemaker fighting elements and cancer to make gorgeous Pinot Noirs
• For Better Or For Worse, In Wine and In War
• Mondo Mondavi: On Tours, Reserve Wines, Alcohol Levels, and Looking People in the Eye
• Wine pricing: Part math, part market

SOME DAYS I FAIL TO FIND A CATEGORY TO ENCOMPASS ARTICLES LIKE THESE … THIS IS ONE OF THOSE DAYS

• Gone with the wind: study finds cows fed wine dregs emit less methane
• Hello Kitty Wine: Japan-based Enoteca expands presence in China