NEWS FETCH – JULY 9, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Flames Level Highly Regarded Calif Foothills Winery
• Ouch! The Wine Bubble Blows Up
• Is 7%-11% growth in US Fine Wine disappointing?
• French Calls For Boycott Of Calif Wine
• Court puts rest break lawsuit to rest for $90 Million
• Wine Flash-Deal Websites See Rapid Growth….But At What Cost to Wineries?
• Raisins in the balance: Farm bill pits fresh fruit against fruit
• What housing recovery? Foreclosure inventory near all-time high says report
• Flavor Scalping: The why of wine-in-a-box’s odd taste
• Washington wineries expect lift from Gallo’s entrance
• Beer output flattens
• Wine grape prices bleak for Aussie growers
• Argentine Wine exports Up 40% between Jan & May

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Small winery owners make transition from big corporations to small business
• Idea of Copia as a corporate headquarters gains
• ‘Affordable’ Care Act Not So Affordable for Calif
• Kirilov New Winemaker At Meadowcroft

MARKETING, SALES & MANAGEMENT

• Cupcake Wine Success: Is Whoopie Pie Chard Next?
• Gaining Traction in the Marketplace takes Tenacity and Focus
• Wine appreciation class at a bookstore: best of both worlds
• Chinese open to modern wine labels
• When the heat comes, is the wine over?

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• New UK wine company code to protect investors
• Stephen Brauer Departing Treasury Wine Estates
• Liv-ex placed at number 78 in The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200

MATTERS OF TASTE

• In Defense of Wine Snobs
• Phonies make wine sleuth see red
• What do you call 5,000 dead wine collectors at the bottom of the ocean?
• An 18th-century letter for auction reveals how Irish wine merchant duped British
• The Number of Buds on a Vine
• Creating a Khmer palate for Rhone Valley French wines
• Condrieu: old wood passes the acid test

ONLINE, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Asia, the next capital of electronic wine list
• Infographic: How To Determine Facebook and Twitter ROI

MEDIA MATTERS

• Make This Wine Blog Publisher Pay Up
  
• Brad Pitt NOT to star in The Billionaire’s Vinegar

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Patent Allowances Received for Hydrogen Sulphide-Preventing Wine Yeasts

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• LA: Alcoholic drinks in to-go pouches put New Orleans company on the map
• OR: Winegrowers Raise Stink About Bug
• MO: Newest winery operators start to believe – Springfield
• WA: Yakima Valley grape growers happy with crop so far
• WA: Wine forecast sunny

EUROPE

• Sancerre to Rival Burgundy’s Best Whites: John Mariani
• Richebourg Overtakes DRC As Top Of The Drops
• Rising Stars of French Winemaking

THE UK

• Blossom Hill joins reduced alcohol trend
• D&D Wines liquidation starts early

OH CANADA!

• New Zealand’s Invivo Wines Launches in Canada

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: New winery set for 2013 vintage
• OZ: Little improvement this year for the wine industry

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China thirsting for premium Aussie wine

LATIN AMERICA

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