NEWS FETCH – APRIL 27, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Alcohol advertising affects brand choice but not consumption
• The World’s Most Powerful Wine Merchant Is This Costco Employee
• Is Washington’s liquor-privatization law legal?
• Wine Retailer News: Wine and Post Office Finally Meet
• Obama Caves To Election Politics, Scraps Child Labor Rules
• Fight over water for Central Valley begins in Congress
• The End Of Sulphur In Wine?
• Great Recession will cripple wages for years to come
• Champagne crop badly damaged by frost
• 20+ Chinese-owned chateaux set to accelerate in coming years
• Napa: A focus on farm worker education

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex: 2011 prices dampen market confidence
• Ste. Michelle Enjoys Solid Q1 Growth On Strength Of Smaller Brands
• Could the wine investment market benefit from interest in Nigeria?
• Diageo to take control of Quanxing

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• 60% Of People Are Afraid To Drink While on A Diet
• Moderate drinking offers diverse risks and benefits

MARKETING, SALES & PROMOTION

• How to respond to negative customer reviews
• Want an Award Winning Wine list without paying $250 to the Wine Spectator?

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The danger of deconstructing wines
• Tasting note terms to ban – have your say
• Should wine scores be taken with a pinch of salt?
• Is it OK to Store Wine in a Refrigerator?
• Where Wine Lives: Cellar, Fridge—or Garage?

SPINNING, SPINNING, SPINNING

• Napa Valley Vintners issue earliest harvest report ever: 2012 is great!
• Troublesome Napa 2009 vintage turns out exceptional wines
• NZ: Vintage 2012 In Marlborough – A Stunner
• WA: Vines take the nation by storm!

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• And DrinkLocalWine.com 2012 is underway
• CT: House Approves Sunday Alcohol Sales
• PA: Wine and liquor store fight drags on
• TN: Group hopes to open winery in Blount Co.
• VA: wine industry continues to grow
• WA: Wine’s Economic Impact

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Counterfeit Bordeaux Making Chinese Buyers Sick
• Bar Neuf, Imperial Horse and eight Ningxia wineries in Nanjing
• Impacts of imported wine to Chinese market
• Chinese quaff wine, snap up chateaux
• OZ: Golden future in screwcaps

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Top Euro Group on Wine meets for the first time in Brussels
• Euro-Storm in a wine glass over organic wine
  
• Argentina: Rolling delight
• Stellenbosch Wine Country: Where Old World Pairs with New
• Nigeria wine boom could be stifled by tax, red tape
• Nova Scotia: Wine from Debert grapes to make local debut

NEWS BURIED IN HERE SOMEWHERE? MAYBE. OR NOT.

• VINEXPO Asia-Pacific 2012 Establishes New Milestone as Most International Wine …