NEWSFETCH – January 13, 2012

TOP NEWS

• W.J. Deutsch, Michael McGill Close To Settling Trade Secrets Lawsuit
• Alcohol Regulation Roundup: Jan 12, 2012
• Top 10 Champagne trends for 2012
• Chinese Companies on new Acquisition Spree centered on Burgundy ?
• Yannick Evenou offers Chateau Réaut shares on Facebook
• New Jersey’s Wine Drinking Residents Rejoice
• Winemaker puts Kingsburg on the map
• Bronco CFO Appointed Director at Oak Valley Bancorp & Community Bank
• Competition Results Reinforce Reputations
• Wine styles of the rich and famous: The Wiltshire ‘wine mine’
  
• Analyzing the costs of biodynamics
• Coombsville: Slow down in Napa’s newest AVA

HEALTH: WINE RESEARCH FRAUD AFTERMATH

• Fraud Gives Rush Limbaugh Issue To Pound Red Wine
• Wine Industry Snoozes While NeoDrys Beat The Drum
• Photo-editing enabled red-wine research fraud
• Red Wine Fraud: Well This is Darn Annoying!
• I’m still going to drink red wine

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• 12×75.com interviews Liv-ex Director James Miles
• Diageo’s Chief Executive Paul Walsh keen to buy Cuervo

MEDIA MATTERS

• Suit: Wine expert created blog to trash Yelp critic
• On the 100-point scale, uncertainty and types of consumer
• ‘The numbers mean nothing to me’
• Musings on Wine Scores

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Dry Comments: When will winter arrive?
• Evening Land Vineyards (ELV) Appoints Greg Ralston CEO
• Planning begins for Count’s 200th birthday bash
• California’s new wine country: Sacramento
• Wines by Women for Women
• Pacific Wine Accessories Company is a New Company Offering Wine and Alcohol …
• Viviani family member reclaims ‘Sonoma Jack’ cheese brand

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NJ: Building collapse at Cecil County winery injures
• OR: Ashland winegrowers keep Pallet Wine Co. hopping
• PA: Wineries grow their presence at Farm Show
• VA: McDonnell may abandon proposal to privatize liquor stores

WATER & SUSTAINABILITY

• State, feds proposed ‘scientific’ management of Delta water
• Delta advocates blast flaws in tainted PPIC report
  
• Editorial: An $11 billion California water bond? Dry up

AROUND THE GLOBE

• The premiers crus of Israel

EUROPE & THE UK

• Blue Nun launches low-alc range
• Croatian wine manufacturer to take on China

CANADA

• Manitoba to allow liquor in movie theatres

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine exports in decline, but price goes up

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China: A domestic wine industry starts to take root
• Life Sentence for Chinese Smuggler of Top Flight Bordeaux Wines

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• $2.97 wine … how is it possible?
• Maybe Champagne was a Bad Choice…?
• One Cheer For The Great Recession?

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• New Wine Filter Medium Is Safer

FAIL!

• Southern Wine & Spirits of California Appoints Steven Burrows and Isaac …

Southern consistently fails to send out a professional news release. This overly-long, amateurish, wandering example is no exception. Southern either lacks the acumen to send out professional work or doesn’t really care how bad it looks.