NEWS FETCH – JUNE 21, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Naked Wines invests $822,000 in Kiwi winemaker
• Economic uncertainty could benefit restaurants
• Report Finds Potential Farm Bill Follies
• Stockton preps for bankruptcy
• Lot 18 wine sales site cuts itself down to less than half
• Senate Farm Bill Has Momentum
• Kern, Kings counties designated agriculture disaster areas
• ‘Cost-conscious’ airlines lead flight to PET packaged wine
• The Central Valley’s silver bullet wine grape doesn’t exist
• The Next Big Thing in Wine
• They Couldn’t Have Meant It—A Lesson in Wine Misspeak
• American Spending On Alcohol Stagnant
• Some Kinds of Red Wine May Not Trigger Migraines
• Restaurants feeling the heat from retail competition
• Free Canadian wine trade is up to each province
• Alcohol Regulation Roundup
• Wolf Blass Launches Huge Asian Promo Campaign
• Codorniu’s Sonoma Vineyard plans opposed by monastic order

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Texas Retail Market Continues To Be Cross-Border Battleground
• Is Privatization Coming to a State Near You?
• PA: Corbett eyeing Liquor Control Board housecleaning

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• San Francisco: Wine Delivered To Your Door In An Hour
• Bye-bye, fruit fly!
• Opponents of Calistoga resort qualify initiative for ballot
• Calistoga Beverage plant for sale

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Competitions: Big Problems, Or Big Opportunities?
• Do 21st-Century Drinkers See Wine Differently?
• A wee rant about ‘ice wines’
• How transparent should wine blends be?

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Microsatellite DNA Analysis, Shaping Genetic Understanding of Grapes

EUROPE

• Three to be arraigned over Malta DOC wine fraud allegations
• Bordeaux ‘obsession’ documentary set for release
• Taking Stock of Armenia’s Wine Industry

OH CANADA!

• Bill C311 Update

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Voyager Estate ‘not for sale’, says family
• OZ: The beautiful home of Australia’s most atrocious wine
• NZ: Grape-growing stages a recovery

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Changyu: Leader in China’s chateau wine
• Paulo Pong launches premium wine retail chain in Hong Kong

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Romancing the Rhône : Michel Chapoutier
• Red Wine: A teething problem

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Christie’s Appoints Holmberg as Its Head of New York Wine Sales