NEWSFETCH – January 20, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Changes in the grape market: How did rap music make more people drink moscato? (And Other Questions)
  
• Bulk Wine Exports Growing
• French Malbec gains popularity in US restaurants
• Southern To Buy Out Odom’s Stake In Distribution Joint Venture
• Chinese tycoon buys more Aussie wine assets
• Brand-Jacking: Social disaster or the highest form of flattery?
• Water Stocks: Will Top CEOs Start Taking Water Risk Seriously?
• Italy crime groups control big food & wine business
• Restaurant wine  – a venerable New York establishment does the right thing
• When Judges Tell the Truth About the Wine Industry
• Nomacorc launches closure for aging wine
• Key Transitions in the Growth of a Wine Store Website

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Diageo could contemplate Guinness sale or spirits purchases
• Christie’s to auction art and wine together
• Pernod Ricard UK announces senior appointments
• Foster’s sales drop “must be of concern”
• Andrew Carter to leave Bacardi for key role at Treasury Wine Estates
• Treasury appoints Regional Execs

HEALTH

• UK Nanny-state fails to stop binge drinking
• The Wine Ethicist: What’s Alright For The Kids?
• It’s Never Safe to Drink During Pregnancy
• Elderly Binge Most
• Wine headaches: That glass of Cabernet at lunch may hurt
• Do Grapes or Alcohol Make Red Wine Good for the Heart?

SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE 2011 HARVEST

• NZ: Disease big threat now
• Brazil: wine grape crop to fall 20% in Rio Grande do Sul

MEDIA MATTERS

• Sommeliers Vs. Bloggers—The Battle To Replace Mr. Parker
• Wine: Natural, authentic, naked, or whatever?

WATER & SUSTAINABILITY

• California’s Central Valley Project? The Feds Bailed Us Out
• OZ: Irrigators say scrap Murray-Darling plan

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Paso Robles’ Villicana Winery now making vodka, gin

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• IN: Hoosier wine makers burst with enthusiasm
• TX: Dry weather may be helping Texas wine sales
• VA: For some Richmond wine sellers, the glass is half empty
• WA: Registration Open for Feb. 11 Women in Ag Confab

EUROPE

• Croatian wine looks to crack global market
• France is a “banana republic” says Guffens

THE UK

• Olympics won’t save tough 2012
• London Olympics to generate millions for wine trade
• Australia faces UK market share loss
• Top two quit JS wine team
• Sainsbury’s wine team shake-up

CANADA

• Permitting direct wine shipment to consumers across Canada

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Record Champagne consumption
• OZ: Bottle jobs go as beer, wine sales fall
• OZ: End of the road for well known family winery
• OZ: A future leader in Australian wine
• NZ: Up-and-coming superstars in the wine industry

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Improvement of Yantai wine industry
• Development status of wine enterprises of Penglai and its countermeasures

LATIN AMERICA

• The Wine Road to Santiago

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• 21 Crazy Facts About The Unbelievably Corrupt Olive Oil Industry
• K-J chief previews his role in ‘Undercover Boss
• Will Wine Be Used as a Weapon Against the 1 Percent?
• The cork leaked on a fine wine – what’s to blame?
• A Documentary Worth Seeing: SOMM
• To Recork Or Not To Recork an Old Port
• 5 things about wine to focus on in 2012
• Barefoot, flipflop, and the wacky, wonderful world of wine trademarks
• A grape that grows on you
• Former NFL greats serve up wine with a kick
• George Washington Wine Cooler Fetches $782,500 at Auction