NEWSFETCH – January 26, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Make way for the ‘incredible bulk’, fuelling wine sales explosion
• Cool climate wines could grow Aussie volumes
• NZ bulk wine exports up
• 2011 a vintage year for sales of California wine
• Short California 2011 winegrape crop spurs grower prices
• Experts predict rebound in wine prices, plantings
• Selling an Aussia fine-wine story to US
• Fredrikson Names DFV Wines Tops For Growth
• Animal Liberation Terrorists Bomb Central Valley Beef Ranch
• Central Valley farm family gives $12.5 Million to Fresno State
• On-Premise Operators Focus On Cost Efficiencies To Boost Margins
• Old Bridge Cellars and Joe Dobbes Wines Sign Long-term Agreement
• Ceja, other Latina entrepreneurs share wealth, knowledge
• The world’s best wine educators
• USDA ‘Plant Hardiness’ Map Shifts Temperature Zones North

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• O-I posts $510M loss for 2011
• Pernod Ricard UK to launch Sauvignon Blanc in small bottles
• Market breadth boosts trading activity on Liv-ex
• Equity Research on Central European Distribution Corp. and Constellation
• Pernod Ricard suffers $99m hit on asset sales
• Vintage Capital – Financial Advisor Magazine

HEALTH

• Heart Healthy wine tasting in honor of National Wear Red Day, Feb. 3

MEDIA MATTERS

• Hey Joe, lighten up on the social media thing
• Wine Social Media and the End of Average

WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Sinking the Calif Water Bond
• Peter Gleick: Mining Calif Groundwater – The Cadiz Project

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Where’s Napa Valley’s next Great Leap Forward in the 21st century?
• A Winemaker to Watch goes his own way
• New Digs, New Home for Gallo in Healdsburg

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• CO: Wine Industry Enters a Higher State
• OR: Lawmakers Provide More Funds to Monitor Water, Soil
• NJ: Local business owners concerned about direct wine shipping
• UT: Many hope DABC audit brings reform

ACADEMIA

• Doing Science in a Phenolic Paradise

EUROPE & THE UK

• M&S first to market Hospices de Beaune purchase
• Interloire ‘bureaucratic’ and misuses funds
• Angry and frustrated François Chidaine resigns from InterLoire’s executive committee
• Call for collaboration in duty fraud fight
• Burgundy climats edge closer to UNESCO listing
• Court rejects Barsac traveller camp plans

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: WorkSafe probes Treasury wine spill
• Kiwis take on Grüner Veltliner

LATIN AMERICA

• Behind a US expat’s Argentine wine startup success
• Chilean Wine Industry Certifies First 14 Wineries Under Wines of Chile’s New
• Argentina’s grape harvest on social networks

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Syrah: The Rodney Dangerfield of Wine
• Is this what they teach about “rare vintage claret” in business school?
• Dr. Strangewine, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sommelier