NEWS FETCH – MAY 29, 2012

TOP NEWS

• A Taste of Prohibition as Washington Liquor Stores Go Private
• Frank Arciero, acclaimed Paso Robles vintner, dies at 86
• Wines At $11-And-Up Driving U.S. Market’s Growth, Says IRI
• DFV’s Female-Targeted HandCraft Surges To 50,000 Cases In 3 Mos
• Why Skinnygirl Wines Are A Bad Idea
• Farmers scrambling to find harvest labor
• Chinese Estates head to be prosecuted in Macau
• Cold Climate Wine Competition Calls for Entries
• Wine Curmudgeon’s Grape glut edition

DIRECT SHIPPING & REGULATION

• Two Wine Neighbors – Two Approaches to Liquor Regulation
• New Penn push to privatize wine, liquor sales
• Should Alcohol Bureaucrats Be Dissing the Will of the People?
• TTB on Gluten Content Statements

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Diageo Among European firms planning for Greek unrest and euro exit
• Willamette Valley Vineyards Posts Q1 2010 Profit
• Diageo Sticks to Strategy
• Wine in High Demand at Christie’s Spring Sale
• Liv-ex: Introducing the Market Price and the improved trade ticker
• Bordeaux Index: Boom for your buck?

WINE BILLIONAIRE NEWS

• Part 1: Bill Koch, America Cup Winner, GOP Superdonor
• Part 2: Bill Foley Winemaking Lures the Wealthy, But Not With Profits

WINE & TECHNOLOGY

• Vivino – One App to Rule Them All
• Big Data for Wine
• 94% of US Wineries Are On Facebook, 73% on Twitter
• Wine trade’s use of Twitter is like ‘verbal Prozac’
• The Impact of the Internet (to date) on the Liquor Industry
• Liquor Giants Plug Into Social Media
• Online Marketing Helping Australian Smaller Wine Producers To Compete
• WineBid.com Partners With Napa Valley Vintners On Auction

MEDIA MATTERS

• A great blog post (or news release) begins with a great headline
• Seeing the funny side of wine reviewing

MATTERS OF TASTE

• EU wines may now be labelled ‘organic’
• How much alcohol is too much?
• Men Are From Cab, Women Are From Moscato?
• Changing the Perception that all Rieslings are Sweet.
• Rating wines: It’s not just taste
• Harvesting the years of sunshine
• Do Americans expect to pay well below market value for great Australian wines?

MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, SALES & PROMOTION

• Pandering or just marketing? Wines aimed at women tread a fine line
• A College Degree Can Give You an Entrepreneurial Edge
• From Co-creation to collaboration: 5 pillars for business success
• How Do I Get Your Job?

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Kevin Travis joins Buccella
• Zinfandel Advocates & Producers release Heritage Vineyard Wine
• Cities supporting vintners in Central Coast process

WASHINGTON STATE

• 2012 Growing Season in Washington Off to a Warm Start
• Popularity causes a backlash against wine-based tourism
• A welcome Rainstorm in the wine market

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Asian switch to Italian wines logical but difficult
• Gobi desert wines fuel Chinese wine industry
• Imported wines besiege Chinese wine producing province
• Asia’s biggest wine expo opens in Hong Kong
• Wine importers to China up 200%
• Vehement industry opposition to Indian alcohol regulations
• Vinexpo reinforces Hong Kong’s importance
• Indian Wine and Wine Legislation: A Future Development?
• Tax deal to uncork India for wine investors
• Did China wine more medals because it had more entries?
• China retail wine market is estimated in size exceeding 90 billion Yuan in 2013

ACADEMIA

• Washington Wine Scholarships Available
• Acadia adds wine study
• CSU Vineyard Management Seminar
• Napa Vintners award scholarship

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Water Deficits, Anthocyanin and Tannins In Merlot Grapes

EUROPE

• Russian Thirst for Fine Wine
• Vinisud president to launch event in Shanghai
• Hong Kong, Germany Sign Wine Cooperation Agreement
• Wine firm vows to protect Lafite’s image
• Chateau Suduiraut: From Phylloxera to AXA
• Greek exports rise despite crisis
• Frost in Austria destroys thousands of hectares of vines

THE UK

• Guy Anderson Wines launches wine venture, Piggy Bank

OH CANADA!

• Tidal Bay ‘terroir’ identifies wines as uniquely Nova Scotian

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Upsetting the natural balance
• NZ: Dollar still too high for winegrowers

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• What are Vertical and Horizontal Wine Tastings?

REALLY? TODAY’S WANDERING HEADLINE

• Wine In China: Leading Online Sales Platform Appoints DDMA To Develop Wine And … NOTE: Please (PLEASE!) refer to: A great blog post (or news release) begins with a great headline