NEWS FETCH – APRIL 26, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Wine exporters swoon at sight of Canada: Rabobank
• Lynch Bages’ Cazes family takes stake in Crushpad
• Wine Writer Ethics and Bullying: Suckling & Parker
• Moderate Alcohol: Lower Oral Cancer in Older Women
• Wash. Gov’s Remarks “Jug Vs Fine” Distorts Reality
• Napa grape growers see good wine in the forecast
• Copia liquidation fetches a ‘disappointing’ $350,000
• New wines help wounded warriors
• Marketing wine: the mainstream adoptive curve

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Chateau Ste. Michelle 2012 Q1 net revs up 11.9%
• Pernod refinances debt from Vin&Sprit purchase
• Pernod Q3 sales rise, keeps outlook
• Pernod Ricard’s sales grow 5% on emerging markets
• Diageo ends Chinese offer with little uptake

MEDIA MATTERS

• Suckling vs. Miller: The difference between scandals
• The State of Blogging in America, as seen by the French
• Natural Wine, Golfer Wines and other Gimmicks

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Drink Local Wine: Greetings from #DLW!
• NY: Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing Debuts
• OK: Protests filed against wine-in-grocery-stores ballot language

EUROPE & THE UK

• LIWF announces conference programme
• Tesco take “Dragons Den” style LIWF stand
• Suckling: Bordeaux 2011 down to the expertise of viticulturalists

AROUND THE GLOBE

• OZ: Penfolds set to launch top wines
• Argentina: In search of extreme wines
• South Africa: Vin de Constance to take on Sauternes
• OZ: Tasmanian viticulture course dropped

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Explaining the Aromas and Flavors of Wine
• I forgot this article yesterday: Eating More Berries May Delay Memory Decline

PROBABLY NEWS, BUT VERY BADLY WRITTEN

• VinPerfect Achieves Significant Business Milestones; Opens Series A Preferred…

MAKING THE KARDASHIANS LOOK GOOD

• White House ‘gate crasher’ to run for governor of Virginia