NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 13, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Raisin harvest expected to be down sharply
• How Much Do Wineries Really Make?
• Gallo To Buy Central Coast’s Courtside Winery
• Mistral Equity Invests $10 Million In Vino Volo
• New Crushpad Owners Ask Customers to Pay More
• The Wine App for ‘Normal People’
• LCBO says it does much to support small Ontario wineries
• Fears Over Private Ownership of Wine Regions’ Names
• Italy’s Crop Damage From Drought Seen Close to 1 Billion Euros

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Growers fear impact of water pipelines
• Lake County: Glass company’s westward expansion
• Napa 2012 harvest begins
• A Penniless Italian Count Becomes The Dean Of Winemakers

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Central European Distribution Completes Consent Solicitation
• Willamette Valley Vineyards Posts a Profit for the Second Quarter 2012
• Mouton Rothschild, Latour and Lafite headline Christie’s Hong Kong Sale

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Drinking wine helps women to keep their figure
• Temperance Movement Kills Booze At Lunch
• Taking a Break from Drinking
• Giving Up Alcohol To Avoid Empty Calories: Yea Or Nay?
• How alcohol ads target kids

MARKETING, SALES & MANAGEMENT

• The Popularity of Pinot Noir is a Concern for Some Wineries
• How Valuable is the “Story” Behind a Wine?
• ‘Don’t call us a cult’ – Screaming Eagle
• Vintank: More Foursquare, more Instagram, more, more, more.
• New Radio Show Helps Budding Entrepreneurs

MEDIA MATTERS

• A Moralistic Tale of Getting 100 Points
• Examining Wine Blogging: Responsibility
• In Vino Veritas? Inside the Bogus World of Wine
• “Complete guide” to grape varieties set for release
• The Hosemaster’s take on STEVE!

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Changing tastes as wine buyer moves into role of customer
• What is Greatness in Wine ? A Philosophical Look Down Under
• Moët Gets the Ice Treatment
• Fear of Wine: Oenophobia = Xenophobia
• Private label wines, value, and quality
• Mourvèdre: grape variety of choice for the south of France
• Wine complexity: a complex subject?
• The Mission Grape

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Capturing the Jewels In Wine
• Wine Gadget Dodges Sharks

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MO: Winemakers anticipating best vintage in decades
• NE: Drought likely to mean fewer grapes but fuller flavor

EUROPE

• Quitting en primeur was Latour’s long term plan
• An Italian Vineyard Feels the Flames
• Vineyard that survived the Great French Wine Blight becomes first living thing

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Changyu wines are safe, say associations

LATIN AMERICA

• Australians open up to Argentine wines