NEWS FETCH – MAY 16, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Black Box Looks To Maintain Double-Digit Growth
• Shift in grape market impacts North Coast wineries, grower
• Technomic: Fast-casual restaurants ahead of industry growth
• Wine By The Glass Is For Chumps
• $716 million judgment for selling alcohol to minors
• English wine beats Moët in blind tasting
• The new rules of wine you don’t know
• Ledson plans new Kenwood winery
• TTB Proposes Ancient Lakes of Columbia Valley AVA
• California wine: Argentina’s biggest competitor
• An Aussie winery built of straw
• Recent Court Opinion: Abandonment & Termination Of a Vineyard Lease

MARKETING, SALES & PROMOTION

• Alcoholic beverage brands seek social media connections as Millennials come of age
• Conference Gives Wineries Tools to Succeed in Direct Shipping
• The Best of Booze Memes – LOLz!
• Bachelorettes, locavores and quality wine in America
• How are you marketing on Pinterest?

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Willamette Valley Vineyards Posts a Profit for Q1 2012
• Alcohol sales back on Coca-Cola agenda
• Liv-ex: Bordeaux 2011 release recap
• 1774 vintage French wine sells for $49000

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Why Rating Wine Is Bad Science
• Bacteria, not blending, brings complexity

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Effort aims to give Lodi a better reputation
• Delta plan draft released
• Tulare County Supervisors challenge UC water study
• Celebration of Life, Rededication of Wine Library

EUROPE

• Spain: The new conquistadors of wine
• Sour Grapes For Estonian Wine Business
• Bordeaux Futures Hit the Market, But Is Anyone Buying?
• Flood of 2011 en primeur releases sparks new life into campaign
• Champagne ‘capsule thieves’ arrested
• Bordeaux 2011 – Super Tuesday: Over 40 releases overwhelm negociants, merchants

THE UK

• Top reasons to go to LIWF 2012

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• French Vintners ally to crack down on counterfeit goods
• Changing, Changing Chinese Wine Market
• Masters of wine: Institute to hold 3 Master Classes at Vinexpo Asia Pacific 2012
• Report: French Dominance Of China’s Wine Market Set To Slip

SOUTH AFRICA

• Terroir Capital Brings South Africa’s Mulderbosch In-House

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The physics of wine bottle opening
• Keep and Carry Leftover Wine
• Lotto scammers wash their cars with Champagne
• DIAL M.W. FOR MURDER