NEWS FETCH – APRIL 19, 2012

TOP NEWS

• World wine consumption: the game of progresses and recessions
• Suckling paid $24,000 for reviews: La Presse
• Private equity group buys 6.1% of Treasury Wine Estates
• Wine industry’s future focus of annual Santa Rosa conference
• Sonoma Grower Donald Stiling Dies
• The hazards of doing business in Argentina
• Bill Harlan Interview: Optimism returns to Napa Valley
• Severe Weather, Crop Losses Blamed For Coming Spike In Wine Prices
• Costs Published for Napa Grapegrowers
• Vintner Group Expands To Multi-State Presence
• Upcoming CLE International Conferences on Alcohol Beverage Law
• Some Good News About Alcohol and Politics

DIRECT SHIPPING

• Alabama House committee kills wine direct shipping bill
• Michigan breweries, wineries want to change monopolistic distribution laws

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• Introducing the Liv-ex Bordeaux 500
• Fitch raises Constellation Brands issuer default rating
• Top 10 vineyard investments
• Wine investment market ‘responded favourably’ to Lafite 2011
• Diageo rewarded for gender diversity progress

MARKETING, SALES & PROMOTION

• Effective Advertising: Good News & Bad For Mayacamas
• Young, Mobile and Growing: The State of U.S. Hispanic Consumers
• Wine REPublic Solicits Trade Tech Tricks

MEDIA MATTERS

• A Writer Takes on Wine: James Conaway Interview
• The Increasing Importance of Writing A One-Page Press Release

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Salinas-area growers appeal water quality rules to state board
• COPIA Auction Starts with Gift Shop Opening to the Public
• Visionary Vintner – Santa Barbara Independent
• New life for Healdsburg landmark

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OR: Stoller Vineyards winemaker turns from naturopathic medicine to Pinot
• OR: Record $5.2 Billion In 2011 Ag Sales
• WA: The tyranny of the weather

EUROPE

• Bernard Magrez buys three Bordeaux estates

OH CANADA!

• Niagara icewine makers hail mild winter weather
• Argentina positions itself with “value” in the Canadian market

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Health expert challenges wine body on pregnancy labels
• NZ: Grapes left for maximum flavour

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China’s first traceable wine
• Korea: Premium wines available at the best prices

AROUND THE GLOBE

• From terroir to tourism: a guide to Lebanese wine
• Schooled in the art of fine wine

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Does hyperdecanting wine work?
• A Guide to Wine Faults – Herbaceousness
• A Word about Wine Flaws – Part II