NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 27, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Wine prices inch back up
• Can Wineries Increase their Bottle Prices?
• Yellow Tail Maker Plans Pricey Wine as Dollar Shaves Profits
• Turley “Jazzed” Over Karly Amador Purchase
• Crushpad Had Nothing Left to Spend
• California Grapes holds test-run of Beijing wine shop in San Francisco
• Threat posed by leafroll virus to the New Zealand wine industry
• A new breathalyzer law drives anger in France
• New fermentation system: closed tank that stores and reuses CO2

HARVEST 2012

• Yakima Valley wine-grape growers bet on toasting record harvest
• Sierra Foothills/Calaveras County Harvest Report
• Ontario harvest shines with summer heat
• Grapes will be ready for early harvest in Niagara
• State grape yield a plus for Wisconsin wineries

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Just one alcoholic drink a day may up risk of cancer: Study

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Marine Launches Winery Helping Fellow Veterans
• Randy Dunn’s Cabernet crusade
• Gina Gallo on honoring a legacy
• Santa Cruz Mountains wines’ dual inspirations
• The Continuing Odyssey of Randall Grahm
• Hess reorganizes Sales Team

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Treasury Wine lags on earnings metrics in Australia consumer staples
• Diageo Confident as Emerging Markets, U.S. Drive Profit
• Pernod Ricard Might Boost Dividend Next Week
• Liv-ex: DRC off the boil
• Former Credit Suisse Banker Sells Exclusive Wines Online

MARKETING, SALES & MANAGEMENT

• A tough road to hoe
• The Coppola alicante bouschet mystery solved
• Aussie Facebook ad ruling “strange” says Diageo
• The Everyday Sommelier on the Corner
• The revolution in wine shops
• Put Your People on the Same Team

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Neuroscience of Wine Tasting: Dissecting the Intricacies of the Minds’ Eye
• Less acidity, more interest in Nortons
• Thinking about Zin as summer slowly ends
• Grenache a star but too exacting

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• ID: Wine Industry Moves from Bleak to Lucrative
• NY: Bright future for wineries along the Niagara Wine Trail

EUROPE

• Chinese Chateau Buyer Soothes the French
• Beer-brewing Dutch try their hand at making wine

THE UK

• Cabernet Ger-what? Waitrose in London stocks Chinese wine from Changyu

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Wine industry hailed for virus control
• OZ: Consumers drinking more red

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Bentleys and wine swell China inventory overhang

LATIN AMERICA

• Break point for Argentina