NEWSFETCH – February 17, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Mortgage Title Mogul Morphs Into Entrepreneur of Viticulture
• Treasury raises toast to the thirst of China (Scroll down for lots more Treasury articles)
• Wine Fumbles Health Issue, Spirits Industry Picks Up Ball
• California water bill approved by key panel
• Achieve Business Goals by Taking Responsibility for the Other Guy’s “Mistakes”
• Killer Label Design Sells Out Wine In Record Time
• SLO Wine exporting seminar set for next week
• China’s wine romance with Napa Valley
• Lodi vintners already cultivating Chinese customers
• Calistoga council to consider wine regulations…Again
• US wine exports up in 2011 as Asian demand grows
• Controversy Hits Beverly Hills Wine Festival Honoring Whitney Houston

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Former AMA Chair: Nature Alcohol/Health Article Lacks Common Sense
• How Much Alcohol Do You Really Drink?
• Stop-Smoking Drug Makes Booze a Turnoff
• MA: Bill to Ban Alcohol Ads on State Property Heads to Ways and Means
• Social media ‘push youth to alcohol’

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Beam’s Skinnygirl Brand Enters Wine Market
• Impact Databank’s Analysis Of Pernod Ricard’s U.S. Progress
• Pernod posts 11% sales and 20% net profit increases
• Pernod Ricard Posts Solid Results, but Shares Appear Slightly Overvalued
• Diageo Gave to Climate-Denier Think Tank
• Fine wine market shows signs of improvement
• Legendary Henri Jayer Burgundy Collection Nets Record For Christie’s
• Diageo seeks to evade grocery price wars

TREASURY FROM EVERY ANGLE

• Treasury Wine Estates reports A$58m profits
• TWE wine sales lower, but earnings up
• Treasury Wine Estates toasts solid first half profit
• TWE says China wine market a bottler
• Beringer, Chateau St. Jean boost Treasury Wine’s year-end domestic sales
• Four out of five ain’t bad: Treasury Wine
• UK decline hits Treasury Wine Estates

MARKETING & PROMOTION

• Wine Institute UK Contest: Golden ticket to the Golden State
• Wine sellers must understand the winemaking process
• Wine labels tell a marketing story
• Report: Content and the New Marketing Equation
• Google, Apple target the TV – what does this mean for marketers?

MEDIA MATTERS

• Why I don’t do celebrity wine stories
• Digital Wine Communications Conference Ewbc 2012 Announces Keynote Speakers

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Consumers across three continents prefer lower alcohol wines: Prowein
• The Bitter Battle Over Sweet Wine
• Sweet red wine, part I
• Age Worthy? WSJ Readers Weigh In
• You Say Older Wines Are Trouble—I Say “Poppycock”
• Revisiting Zinfandel, with a side of wine writing
• IMW Seminar to Focus on Wines of Eastern Spain
• Lebanese sommelier takes on training others in wine culture

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• PA: PLCB Modernization Makes Sense
• PA: State Liquor Stores’ Soviet-style Socialism Fails

EUROPE & THE UK

• Grand Cru Champagne House makes English sparkling wine
• Wine bar opens in historic London pub
• En primeur credibility ‘damaged’: survey
• Bordeaux 2010: Did the Bordelais know something we didn’t?

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: La Nina holds back grape harvest
• OZ: Bless this Barossa fruit

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Indian wine in China: CWS to import two reds, one white from Grover
• Far East Diplomacy with a Chinese Cuvée

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Does Nitrogen Cause Pinot Leaf Curl?

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• In the Bag: Insuring Fine Wine
• Wine’s Hidden Beauty by Sondra Barrett, PhD.
• There’s Something About Pinot
• How to Be Sure the Wine Matches the Label
• Why the Old World is fascinated with the New World
• A master in the world of wine
• Entertainment Legend Antonio Banderas Introduces the Anta Banderas Winery

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• DSWE Appoints Stephen Kelley as French Portfolio Manager & Southeast Regional Manager