NEWS FETCH – MAY 23, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Foreclosure Sale Set For Diamond Oaks’ Calistoga Vineyard
• Barron’s Weekly: Time To Pluck the Grape
• Aussies say El Nino may return this year
• Maple Creek Winery Goes on Block
• Growers concerned about proposed water regulations
• New Bollinger bottle to reduce oxidation rate
• State court upholds Sonoma County’s firing of ag commissioner
• Bodegas Fariña Aims To Make Name For Spain’s Toro Region In U.S.
• TTB Won’t Be Raiding Your Business Over Home-made Infusions… Yet
• Startup Likelii lands $450G To Fix “Obsolete” Euro Wine Sales System
• Climate Change & Business: Evidence from Australia’s Margaret River Region (.pdf)

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Concha Y Toro profit falls 19%
• Liv-ex: First Growth releases fail to spark trade
• Bordeaux shines at Acker Merrall & Condit wine auction

HEALTH & THE GLOBAL ANTI-ALCOHOL RESURGENCE

• Alcohol industry “putting booze before babies”
• Myths About Red Wine “Miracle” Molecule Debunked
• Red wine in cancer trial
• Low-alcohol lovers have high-alcohol winemakers worried
• Keeping Mum: Everyone’s talking teetotal
• UK government pledges to intervene in alcoholics’ lives

MARKETING, SALES & PROMOTION

• A Study in Contrasts and Ideas About Branding
• Tame your Customer Lists with Customer Segmentation
• Turning Around Digital Wines Sales Strategies
• Young drinkers reach for sweet, fizzy moscato wines

MEDIA MATTERS

• What motivated wine bloggers to start blogging
• Wine Ratings: Bad Science or Good Guess?

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Erath Funds Oregon State-Trained Taste Testers To Evaluate Experimental Wines
• Riesling scale may help you select wine you want
• Wine Ratings: Bad Science or Good Guess?
• BERGER: What is the greatest wine?

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• 2013 Direct to Consumer Wine Symposium Expands to Larger Venue
• Placer County “community center” winery plans opposed
• Masut Hires Tincknell & Tincknell For Nat’l Sales & Marketing
• Robert Oatley, LangeTwins Sign Distro Deal
• Thinking pre-Auction thoughts of Napa Valley
• Napa Vintners Achieve Geographic Recognition in Canada

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NJ: Red Tape Impedes Direct Sales
• NY: Producers “believe” in UK market

EUROPE

• Branding key to Portuguese progress
• Champagne is no en primeur Bordeaux, warns European Fine Wines
• Champagne Jacquart lines up acquisitions
• Bordeaux 2011: Mouton release follows raft of big-name discounts

THE UK

• Co-op: English wine drinkers more educated
• Wine trade must recruit more drinkers
• New UK wine carton can win over fine wine producers – Tetra Pak

OH CANADA!

• Niagara College gets $678,510 for food and bev research

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Malaysian free trade agreement a boost for smaller wine producers
• NZ: Liquidator places River Farm vineyards on the market
• OZ: Volunteers stream to the Riverina to help with flood damage
• OZ: Vines wither after St George floods

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• BRICs to surge by 80% in red wine in next five years

LATIN AMERICA

• Torres to release Chile’s first premium País blend

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Jesus on a Wine-Flavored Popsicle
• Not all private labels are alike
• Women in Wine: The Three Graces
• Tyler wines and Chateau Your Name
• Wine from southern France worth stocking up on right now
• How to track down the wine you want
• The 12 Types of Wine Lovers: Which One are You?
• Red grapes, a matter of tannins