NEWS FETCH – APRIL 17, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Minors Not A Not Public Safety Problem in Direct Alcohol Shipping
• Calif State Water Project allocation increased to 60 percent
• The Status of Women and Wine
• Latour en primeur exit good news for wine consumers
• TTB to require label disclosure cochineal extract & carmine?
• Labeling Updates from the TTB for United States Alcohol Beverage Products
• Rainstorm from vinmotion wines debuts

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Diageo’s Marketing Under Review By FTC
• UK investment firm, Beaumont Vintners bankrupt
• Liv-ex: Lafite 2011 down 25% on 2010
• 1855: Another recommendation to hire DDG

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Moderate drinking before & after heart attack associated with lower mortality
• MADD: 1/4 of Teen Drinkers Get Alcohol from a Parent or Family Member
• Drinking On The Job? Please Do, Say These Employers
• 5 Most Fattening Alcoholic Drinks To Avoid

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Santa Clara County Wineries Struggle With Local Regulations
• Showcase for Northernmost California Wines
• Don Sebastiani & Sons appoints Jean Arnold VP

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• “LinkedIn” for the wine trade launches
• More than half chateau websites not fit for purpose
• Should the wine industry keep up with technology?
• The Most Remarkable People on Social Media Today

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine’s Future: Tight, Fat, and Uncorked
• ‘Green’ Wine on the Rise but Taste Still King

MEDIA MATTERS

• Triage For Wine bloggers

MARKETING, SALES & PROMOTION

• Riunite Cultivates Wine Fans At NASCAR

SUSTAINABILITY

• Five Ways to Make Drinking Wine More Eco-Friendly
• Appeal of organic products seeps into wine industry

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• CT: Sunday Sales Approved in Committee
• MI: Local wine grapes not as affected by frost
• OR: 2011 Harvest = 41,500 tons
• OR: Clark County woman starts winery in her backyard
• UT: Provenance Vineyards – Salt Lake City Weekly
• VA: An early spring buds hope, and uncertainty

EUROPE

• Who makes French wine law – INAO or Jean and Florent Baumard?
• The Future of Bordeaux Wines

THE UK

• Laithwaites stocks Turkish wine

AUSTRALIA

• Winemakers plea to protect Hunter vineyards
• Aussie Wine Romance: An affair to remember
• Dirt Dynasties: Through phylloxera and war
• We’re a nation full of heavy drinkers

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chinese consumer tastes mature
• China’s wine market will feature more white wines and sweeter reds
• Wine imports to China reach record high

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Tattoos = Heavier Drinking
• The Odd Combination Of Cola And Red Wine

THERE MIGHT BE SOME NEWS IN THIS EXECRABLE EXCUSE FOR A PR RELEASE

• Maybe something actually happened in some sort of business deal between Boisset & The Mark Wine Group but it’s impossible to tell given the totally UNprofessional and wandering writing, self-indulgent, and unsupportable superlatives that leave the readers looking for an airsickness bag. This is a (bad) joke, right?