NEWS FETCH – JUNE 11, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Historic Vote On Pa. Liquor Store Privatization Planned This Week
• What led to Ascentia’s downfall?
• Central Valley growers struggle with farmworker shortage
• Farm Bill Amendments Start Rolling In
• Bypassing the Grape but Enjoying Its Fruits
• Artist creates dress from red wine
• Low alcohol winemaking leads to big money partnership

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Just thinking about wine can help you relax, scientists claim
• Liquor privatization could harm PA’s health record
• Russia May Ban Alcohol Advertising on Internet,
• OZ: Call for ban on TV alcohol adverts

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• New liquor law permits buying wine at festivals
• Wineries Cluster in Carmel
• First wine-tasting room planned for downtown Santa Rosa
• Copia’s children: Doomed wine center spurred high-end tourism in downtown Napa

MARKETING, SALES & PROMOTION

• Asymmetrical warfare: Ross Brown and private-label wines
• Tapping into local tastes key to success in China
• Open door for gay wine tourists
• Grocery store wine

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Champagne investors see big bucks in fizz
• Diageo leads Pernod in race into emerging markets
• ‘Pristine’ cellar from European collector to go under the hammer
• Auction of 200-Year-Old Champage Fizzles

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine Law Blog Graduates To Wine Law Career
• Oenovideo Film Festival Honors Mother Vine

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Down The Sink!
• Calif: Big? Jammy? Not Anymore!
• ‘Wine alcohol levels have risen on average 2 per cent’

EUROPE

• Chianti classico board agrees on major revamp
• Bank On It: Italian Wine & The Euro Crisis
• Bordeaux 2011: Out with a whimper
• Upscale wine lovers throw lifeline to Portugal valley
• Russian ban forces Georgia’s ancient vineyards to branch out

OH CANADA!

• Wineries Look for Leadership On BC Response to Bill C-311
• Wine Council of Ontario to changes on rules to cross-border wine shipping

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wineries scoop $5.4 million in Federal Government grants
• OZ: Merlot’s worth toiling over: Brown Bros
• NZ: River Farm properties sold

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Interview: Nick Goldschmidt, Part 2
• Low-maintenance rooftop vineyard springs to life

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Southern of New England Appoints Simmons Vice President