NEWSFETCH – January 6, 2012

TOP NEWS

• ‘Super-star’ fine wine prices plummet as market crashes
• NZ: Bulk sauvignon blanc price down 50% in past 3 years
• Bill To Permit Direct Wine Shipping In New Jersey Advances
• Nat DiBuduo Receives CAWG Leader of the Year Award
• CAWG Honors Kautz Farms as Grower of the Year
• Hess Collection wines to be distributed by Young’s Market Co. in Arizona
• Lompoc Wine Ghetto Dispute Returns
• The Sainsbury’s solution to binge drinking? Cut the price of beer & wine
• California takes on the Rhône
  
• Coppola: ‘Apocalypse Now nearly killed Inglenook dream’
• Catching the Buzz: Mining Digital Word of Mouth

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Pernod Ricard Selling $2.5Bln Of Bonds In Three Parts -Source
• Constellation’s U.S. Shipments Slip, But Depletions Rise In Q3
• Wine Spectator Auction Index Slips in Fourth Quarter of 2011

MEDIA MATTERS

• Some good reading: en primeur risks + Parkenstein
• Beverage Media, Veteran Beverage Alcohol Publication, Looks Back at 75 Years of Progress
• Wine Industry Communications: Sonoma State University,MBA Program, Seminar Syllabus

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine Points and banal verbiage
• Points for all? Recent evidence of wine score inflation
• Another conversation about AVAs and terroir

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Organic Winegrowing Manual Will Serve All

CANADA

• BC: Vintners hail drive to cut down strict border rules on wine sales
• BC: Raise minimum price of booze

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Rain on wineries’ parade
• OZ: Summer sundowners at the wineries

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• New Trade Agreement Brings Greek Wine To China
• New Zealand wine march into Guizhou province
• OZ: Vic wine shop opens in China

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Talk about the $10 Hall of Fame on Olivia Wilder radio
• Beverage Media’s Photo Spread and Historical Essay Of The Industry’s Past 75 Years
• 7 Items, 6 Colors: How you plate food for kids matters

A VERY SPECIAL NEWS CATEGORY

• Alverna Mae: The Future Lies In The Past And The Past Lives Forever