NEWSFETCH – February 7, 2012

TOP NEWS

• 2011 California: Short But Good? Maybe, Maybe Not So Much.
• CalPERS vows to push giant Preservation Ranch vineyard project
• Wente Vineyards’ Entwine Jumps To 150,000 Cases In Half-Year
• How Global Economic Shifts Changed the Wine Industry — For Better and For Worse
• Out-of-State Wine Sales: Going Beyond Direct Shipping
• Head of Utah’s premium wine program resigns
• WSWA convention to include business forum
• Top restaurant TV ads marry price, quality
• California Wine Laws That Took Effect on January 2012
• Technomic Develops Online Service to Track Adult Beverage Metrics
• Liv-ex: Talbot ticks up

HEALTH

• Red Wine: Health Benefit Or Health Hazard?
• Does Wine Consumption Improve Your Chance of Having More Teeth in Old Age?
• UK: Government alcohol ad ‘scaremongering’
• Diageo National Pubwatch Awards launched to encourage responsible drinking
• South Africa considers law banning sale of alcohol to pregnant women

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The debate about high alcohol sometimes verges on insanity
• BERGER: The art of wine description
• 5000 Wines a Year : Was this some sort of punishment? Did someone commit a crime?
• Smell is a suave, elusive, sensual sense
• In Vino Veritas: Surprising New Zealand Wine
• Natural Wine Roundup
• Beer With Dinner, Again

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Tannat: the Perfect Grape for Paso Robles?
• Cecchetti Wine Company Celebrates Fourth Consecutive Year of Double Digit Growth

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MI: Chateau Grand Traverse Winery launches new dispensing system
• NJ:State lets In Most Wineries
• NY: Organizations Call Upon Governor to Allow Wine Sales in Food Stores
• TN: Wine in groceries now stalled
• TX: Grapevine Pruning Workshop at Homestead Winery March
• VA: Wine is but a dream, or so say the owners of Afton Mountain Vineyards
• VA allows corkage – but does anybody know that?

EUROPE & THE UK

• Wine To China Bright Spot in French trade deficit
• 1 Million Litres Of Illegal Italian Wine Seized In Hungary
• Spectrum and Vanquish: Kurniawan wines are not in sale
• English vineyard set for first ‘terroir’ designation

OH CANADA!

• BC: Vineyards 2.0: A new generation takes root
• Bosc receives honour from Queen

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Flood damage and clean up in NSW
• OZ: Signs of comeback for vineyards
• OZ: QLD Food 4 Less closes doors
• NZ: Axing of wine import duty great for Bay

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• French Wine sets a new base in Wuhan

LATIN AMERICA

• USD 60 million was invested in Argentine bottle furnace
• Chile’s other revolution

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Israel’s wines battle preconceptions
• Algeria slides into prohibition

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Randy Travis apologises for drunkenness
• Slow wine: eco-gastronomy creeps to the fermented grape

TRITE! TRITE! TRITE! TRITE! TRITE!

• The Perfect Pairing: Wine Enthusiast Uncorks eGift Card Program

Lordy, lordy, lordy … when will ANYBODY with half a clue realize that wine terms like “uncorks” for “launched” are not clever, not cute and certainly not original? Just annoying. And the “perfect pairing” analogy fits the same mold. There’s news here, but instead of a headline that gives the reader a reason to give a damn, it just parades the same old, same old. What is the benefit? What does it do?

TOO LONG! TOO LONG! TOO LONG! TOO LONG! TOO LONG!

• Founded in 2000, Languedoc organic estate Domaine Virgile Joly goes from…
• Jenny McCarthy’s Organization, Generation Rescue, Partners With Cellar Angels…

GEEZ folks! Do you have some news here? Then SAY it instead of mumbling yourself down to the very bottom.