NEWS FETCH – MAY 21, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Wineshipping investing millions in Napa fulfillment facility
• Foley Family Wines Purchases Napa Valley’s Sawyer Cellars
• Foley Ramps Up New Zealand Wine Empire
• Year-over-year restaurant traffic growth slowed in 1Q
• North Coast growers, vintners look at strategies to combat shortage
• Alcohol & Colorectal Cancer: Increased Risk or Prevention?
• Piedmont producers jump on Moscato trend
• What makes a winery important?
• VinPerfect expands permeable screw cap concept
• How three families set up multicrore Indo-Italian wine venture Fratelli

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Swanson Winery gets OK for new Oakville facility
• John Salley Takes Ownership Position in Vegan Wines
• Winery events as political battleground: Why a moratorium isn’t the best answer
• North Bay wine, ag prepare for new erosion regulations
• The Rhone Revolution

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Wine investment fund sees huge returns over FTSE 100
• Chinese Collectors Will Keep Driving Sales
• Constellation creates consolidated US distribution mode
• Diageo to commit $3.5million into agriculture development in Africa

MARKETING, SALES & PROMOTION

• Insights into the Digital Lives of America’s Black Consumers
• The irrelevance of the country and region of origin of a wine (to most people)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How much does personal taste matter in judging?
• Is minerality the key to ageworthiness in wine?
• As you age does your taste in wine change?
• Round Table on Balancing Alcohol in California Wines
• Invention to make wine taste better
• Even some low-cost wines can impress with aging

MEDIA MATTERS

• Respect – just a little bit
• DecanterChina.com to launch in autumn

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• IA: Vintner’s quest for altar wine finally blessed
• TX:Voters Opt To Expand Liquor Sales
• WI: Grape growers optimistic on season

THE UK

• China to exhibit at LIWF for first time
• Wine still UK favourite as consumers tighten their belts
• Australia’s top family wineries ‘pull back’ from UK

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Survey backs tough alcohol reform
• OZ: Heady future seen for Australian wines

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Imported wine takes up 30% of China wine market
• Commerce Department activates anti-dumping investigation of imported wine
• China’s Exploding Wine Consumption

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Traveling through Africa’s Extreme Wine Territory