NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 20, 2012

TOP NEWS

• 2/3 In U.S. Drink Alcohol, Beer Edges Out Wine
• Can You Succeed in the Wine Business Without SM & CRM?
• Restaurant outlook on sales, margins is clouded
• Chile’s Vina Concha y Toro Looks to Revive US Fetzer Wines
• Live with Ted Baseler, CEO of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates
• Marriage drives women to drink, study says
• WA: Wine flies free as part of tourism promo
• As Chinese Palate Expands, French Wine Giants See Sales Squeeze
• Costs drive changes to winery health plans
• NZ: Wine Goes From Oversupplied to Overstretched
• Grape Market Insights: Games people play

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• DFV Wines plans south Napa Valley bottling plant
• Fresno State President Welty to retire
• Sausal acquisition is ‘all about the dirt
• NVC expands entrepreneurial offerings

HARVEST 2012

• SJ Valley Grape Harvest Begins With Labor Concerns
• Labor shortage still a concern as picking continues
• Calif. weighs tougher heat rules for farmworkers
• Update on Vintage 2012 in California
• Texas has outstanding grape harvest
• Napa Valley proclaims 2012 vintage a ‘classic’

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Patrick Ricard: obituary
• Accolade to launch Hardys in the Ukraine
• Treasury’s U.S. Depletions Slip 2% For Full Year, But Trend Improving
• Diageo sales to top £10bn
• Diageo poised to reveal progress in hitting profit targets
• Diageo Close to Buying Jose Cuervo For $3 Billion
• How to Invest in Fine Wine With Online Auctions
• Wealthy wine investors ‘not out for financial gain’

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Alcohol a Major Culprit in Heartburn, Expert Says
• Red wine compound could help seniors walk away from mobility problems
• Most Drunk Drivers Causing Fatal Crashes Have Almost 2X Legal Alcohol Limit
• Significant Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Can Lead to Growth Restrictions Up To Age 9

MARKETING, SALES & MANAGEMENT

• Smartphones revolutionizing wine sales for ‘Millennials’
• How to Handle Wine Donation Requests
• 7 Tips to Being Proactive – the Key to Job Advancement

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine Blog Award Winners for 2012 Announced
• The Italian Wine Guy gets what he deserves
• Penticton, BC to Host the 2013 Wine Bloggers Conference
• Not Yet
• Defining the “Fifth Column” of Wine.
• Summer Reading: Simpson on “Creating Wine”

MATTERS OF TASTE

• I’m getting a little geosmin in the nose
• Wine destroyed by ‘concrete tanks’
• Crop Forcing Improves Winegrape Quality
• Corked
• Forget the wine ‘rules’

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The World’s Most Unusual Wine Regions
• Change in Wine Country: Evolution or War?
• Concannon Vineyard’s roots run deep
• Third Generation Calif Vintner Walks the Talk in Fight Against Breast Cancer
• In the wine world. What’s red, white and new?

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• ID: Wine Industry Moves from Bleak to Lucrative
• ID: Perservering through 4 owners to become winemaker at Ste Chappelle
• IL: Wine drinkers rejoice! State’s grape crop OK
• MD: Ag Department promotes crop insurance
• OR: Wineries got gamay noir game
• WA: 10 largest wineries

EUROPE & THE UK

• Accolade to launch Hardys in the Ukraine
• Obscure Grapes, Small Growers Give Soul to Spanish Wines
• Top 10 wines in the British press

OH CANADA!

• BC Wine industry gets together to grow
• BC wine industry: Natural, sustainable

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Coal seam gas and wine share a glass in Hunter
• NZ: Wine exports rise 8%

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Winemakers Toast China, Imports $1B of Wine a Year
• The first wine supermarket in Zhengzhou opens
• Imported wine online sales benefits from the Changyu Incident

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina should use the “country of origin” effect to compete abroad
• Reviving Chile’s Old Vine Carignane
• Argentina’s Malbec obsession

 

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• MacPhail Family Wines Plans Tasting Room At The Barlow