NEWS FETCH – MAY 24, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Pernod Ricard ‘expects’ to retain consumer confidence despite fake Jacob’s Creek seizures
• Marketing wine to minorities: Part 2
• Napa County orders Sattui’s ‘Castle’ to stop church services
• Farm Loans From USDA Get Easier (.pdf)
• Life’s tough for 5th Column Wine E-tailers
• Coppola’s Revamped Sonoma Winery In High Gear
• Lessons From Brands That Are Great by Choice
• Aussie Growers shocked by repayment demands over bankrupt winery
• Oregon wants to double UK sales within three years
• New York State Wine Outlet to Open in Shanghai, China
• Sichel: Bordeaux 2011 “messy and bloody
• Americans look to beverages’ healthful attributes (No mention of wine)

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Concha y Toro disembarks in LIWF 2012
• Brown-Forman Fourth Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call
• Petrus, Diamonds Test Chinese Demand at $258 Million Sale
• 1855 claims return to profit in 2011

MARKETING, SALES & PROMOTION

• Social Media Marketing in the American and French Wine Industry
• What Wine Club Members Want
• The Top Eight Wine Ecommerce Sites for Wines
• GeoTourism – We Should Care About This!
• Toast this trend: Hong Kong’s teaching wine shops

MEDIA MATTERS

• Social vs Traditional Media in Wine Marketing
• Is blogging killing wine writing?
• Let’s hear it from the guys on wine blogging

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Copper fining kills reductive aromas but also wine character
• The Effect of Long-Term Organic Compost Treatment On Soil and Grape Quality

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Vineyard seminar slated for CSUSM
• Napa Cricket Club Makes Debut

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• IL: Antioch residents aren’t fine with winery proposal
• NY: Long Island Wineries Set Out to Prove Their Green Cred
• NY: Wine Industry Speaks Out Against New Special Events Code
• OH: Beer and wine stay on the menu at state fair
• SC: Ousted after demanding wine for Mass, Charleston County jail chaplain claim
• TX: Warm weather gets vines growing earlier than normal
• TX: Total Wine opening Dallas store
• WA: Workshop: Weathering the Weather

EUROPE

• Bordeaux chateaux played a ‘bad strategy’ over 2011 en primeur
• Late frost damage to over 10% of Austrian vineyards

THE UK

• Low alcohol wine essential to future of the trade
• 5m bottles of English fizz to be sold by 2015
• Negociants UK wants to be number one Aus & NZ specialist
• Penfolds launches Grange 07 in Europe and ‘first-ever’ Bin 169
• UK Lower-alcohol wines to grow to 6% of off-trade

OH CANADA!

• Nova Scotia Winery Gains Investor
• Perdue winery makes it into the big league

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Aussie Garagistes
• 2012 New Zealand Wine Expo held in Beijing
• NZ: Wine pioneer looks back
• OZ: Hunter winery calls for mine probe
• OZ: Small bio-dynamic WA winery fronts world’s biggest wine expo
• OZ: Wineries expand bottling operations

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine Cellars and Aging Wine with Gary Vaynerchuk and Joseph & Curtis.