NEWS FETCH – MARCH 21, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Mitch Cosentino Sues Soldinger & Directors of His Former Winery Company
• CARE Act Now Off The Table?
• Fracking Calif’s Vineyards: Mostly Central Coast
• WA: Stores licensed to sell liquor could quadruple by summer
• CEDC takes Gallo’s Barefoot to Poland
• G.H. Mumm Appoints Riondo USA as Exclusive Importer
• Advanced Seminar at Sonoma State to Focus on Exit Strategy
• What’s in a wine label? Notes of bureaucracy
• Hopes of the wine industry rest on millennial shoulders

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• NZ: Grape supply ‘on a knife edge’
• OZ: Rains bring mixed results for Canberra vineyards
• OZ: Growers assess damage after the floods

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Diageo gains approval for shares in Sichuan Chengdu
• Diageo Gains Chinese Approval for Its Shuijingfang Tender
• Pernod Ricard confident on China price increases
• Double your money with 1855!! (Really?)
• Liv-ex: Bordeaux 2011 weather charts
• Barclays brings in Diageo’s Stephen Doherty to lead corp comms

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Barrel tasting drunkenness alarms Healdsburg merchants
• Aglianico joins the Italian varietals in Amador County
• Mother, daughter duo make their wine a family affair
• Calif Ag Day at the Capitol: Farmers, Animals, Tractors, Rodeo Queens
• Napa Valley and the America’s Cup
• Vintners identify new philanthropic goals

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Social Media Cage Match – And the winner has no shoes!
• Wine Rack launches online trading
• Discover Your invinotype to Explore and Enjoy Wines Perfect for You

MARKETING, SALES & PROMOTION

• Gateway wines for millennials
• If It’s Not Natural Wine, It’s Fake Wine

MEDIA MATTERS

• Decanter to launch Asia Wine Awards; Spurrier, Lee to co-chair
• Wine writer ethics, an obituary, and a segue to Tom Jones

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Amelia Ceja on Wine With Mexican Food
• Robert Parker pushes 2001 and 2003 vintages
• The 2011 Wines Have Become Superstars

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• AZ: First winery in Gila County holds open house
• CT: Sunday Alcohol Bill Clears Key Legislative Hurdle

EUROPE & THE UK

• Thousands of Medoc vines vandalised
• UK: Real Wine Fair 2012 announces line up
• UK Budget 2012: alcohol duty escalator continues

OH CANADA!

• BC: Union strikes deal with government to protect liquor workers

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine grapes damaged by herbicide spray drift
• NZ: Maori wisdom’s powerful influence on winemaking
• NZ: Matthew Jukes releases annual Pinot Noir Classification
• OZ: Coal seam gas on nose for winemakers

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China wine distributor ASC has logo knocked off
• Decanter’s Sarah Kemp talks about Asia Wine Awards
• Wine Enthusiast, YesMyWine to partner in China for digital magazine, accessories site

LATIN AMERICA

• Stroke. Sip. Swirl. Slice: Golfing Argentina’s Wine Routes
• First Costa Rica winery launched

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• In the mood for wine? A wine for every mood
• Napa Valley’s weird and wonderful wines
• The Goblet Project: A Program of Wine History