NEWS FETCH – MARCH 9, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Trends in wine, beer and spirit sales at restaurants
• Restaurant diners prefer tap water
• Celebrating Women Wine Producers and Professionals
• The secret of a great wine list? Keep it short
• It may be time to plant more vines
• The Case For Trying To Understand Wine Law
• Barefoot Business: How to Improve your Service Business
• Some Exec MBA programs Designed for Linebackers, Wine Makers
• Traditional vs Internet Marketing
• Counties, Lawmakers Oppose Tribe’s Federal Recognition for Fear of Napa Valley
• Counties: ‘Inconvenient truths’ lie in tribe’s past
• New William Hardy wine range exclusively launches in travel retail

FRAUD NEWS

• Influential L.A.-area wine collector accused of fraud
• Wine collector faces federal fraud charges in NYC
• Prominent wine collector sold $1.3 million worth of counterfeit wine
• Big Wine Collector Could Do Hard Time

HEALTH

• Glass of Wine Eases Stroke Risk in Women
• Moderate wine intake (white, not red) appears to have favorable effect on lung function
• Winemaking Helps Extreme Alcoholics

MEDIA MATTERS

• The Blogosphere Thrives: Millions More Bloggers and Blog Readers
• Wine PR and the Media in the Age of Twitter
• Spinning the Bottle — updated
• Eastern Winery Exposition Honors Journalist

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Liv-ex: Welcome to the 100-point club
• Organic and biodynamic grape growing is no longer on the fringes. But is it better?
• Sense of Place: Sense of Taste?

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa’s Stalled Ritz-Carlton project may start soon
• Atalon’s new winemaker
• My Turn: The opinionated Stu Smith
• Buena Vista winery, state’s oldest, freshened up
• New wine tasting room clears hurdle at Lodi City Council meeting

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• IA: Wants tighter rein on booze sales in convenience stores
• MD: Boordy Vineyards likes idea of blazing this new trail
• NY: FLCC hopes wine center will be ready by fall 2013 — in Canandaigua or Geneva
• WA: Retailers Greet Washington Wine Month With Mixed Expectations

EUROPE

• Why kosher wine reigns in Spain
• Bank President Shuns Bonus, Stress to Turn Winemaker in Turkey

THE UK

• Enotria to focus on sales and driving acquisitions
• Sparkling wine outshines Champagne

DOWN UNDER

• Penfolds defends ‘outrageous’ price hikes
• OZ: Greener pastures for our wine makers
• NZ: No return to LIWF for New Zealand Winegrowers

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Jiuquan inspection department finishes wine examination
• Quanzhou port increases in wine import
• Imported wine label must pay attention to according tag

LATIN AMERICA

• Toasting the success of Argentine wine

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Pinot noir offers eloquence and style but not value

VIDEO ABUSE: SLEAZY WAYS TO RUIN TWO PERFECTLY GOOD ARTICLES

These articles…

• Middle Ground On Decanting
• How to Survive the Wine Retail Business

… are interesting and useful.

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