NEWS FETCH – MAY 4, 2012

TOP NEWS

• How The Government Screwed Taxpayers On The Napa Valley Wine Train
• Wine Wholesalers Stab Their Best Customer in the Back
• Easter Boosts Wine Sales 11%
• Napa Valley will have Latino majority within 20 years
• Central Coast winery market heating up
• Chinese investors buy old Weyrich properties
• Monterey: Ag Winery Corridor & General Plan Lawsuits To Trial
• Gallo Pays Record Price for Monterey Vineyard
• Aussie wine industry faces ongoing grape glut, job cuts
• Consumer-Focused New Wine Fundamentals Offered in Webinar Format
• Pancho Campo resigns as an MW
• US alcohol retailers find law changes hard to swallow
• Great American Group Hallucinates About COPIA Auction
• Tracy gets its first winery 10 years ago

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Constellation Brands Secures New Credit
• Liv-ex: Beychevelle released in London at £495
• Daniel Ornon: standing up to the 1855 scam
• Calif Grapes IntL Announces Beijing Sales,Operation
• Simon Thomas leaves Pernod Ricard

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Canadian LCBO unveils system to alert shoppers to sugar content in wines
• Mechanism of Red Wine’s Effect on Mitochondria Clarified
• Aussie Tipple turns to a trickle as drinkers take safe option home
• States Not Reducing Youth Exposure to Alcohol Ads

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• FTC revised guidelines for disclosure: toothless or cumbersome?
• Are Wine Apps a Dead and Dying Breed?
• Why you shouldn’t waste time developing a mobile app

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Sobering Results From A Wine Test
• Santa Cruz Mountains: high quality, low acreage
• Sashi Moorman argues for lower alcohol

CAMPO/PARKERGATE ROUND-UP

• Pancho Campo’s Charade Management
• Masters of Wine: Statement on Pancho Campo

WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Fishing fleet sues feds — says Calif Delta water exports hurt salmon
• Calif. snowpack reading less than half of normal

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Peter Mondavi, Jr. Talks Wine Business
• Vanessa Robledo sets her sights on making good & doing good, too
• Coppola releases first Inglenook since 1964
• Last chapter on Ascentia?

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• AZ: Public invited to 3-acre vine planting at Yavapai College
• CT: 49th State to Sell Alcohol on Sunday
• NJ: Wineries gear up for direct shipping
• NY: Fake ice wines criticized
• TX: Suppliers, Distributors And Retailers Tussle Over Sunday Sales

EUROPE

• Sauvignon Gris – A New Star For Bordeaux Chateaux?
• French coopers lobby government
• French vintners getting hip to wine label confusion

THE UK

• Tesco premium wine sales rocket by 50%
• Lower-alcohol wines Argentine set sights on 1m cases in UK
  
• Top UK restaurants rally behind natural wines

OH CANADA!

• Wine focus of economic development corporation

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine industry unfazed by consumption drop
• OZ: Grange “price wars” nothing new: Penfolds
• OZ: Warning on Champagne parallel imports

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China buys WA wine labels
• Chinese continue thirst for international brands

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Metro Wine Map of California
• Fawning over Amarone
• Save Retired Thoroughbreds, Drink Racehorse Wine

WHAT’S THE NEWS HERE? HARD TO TELL IF THERE IS ANY

• World-Renowned Winemaker Aaron Pott Teams Up With Napa Vintner Joseph Carr on …