NEWS FETCH – AUGUST 30, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Aussie Wine Production In Drastic Decline?
• France’s grape harvest ‘exceptionally low’
• Interview, Part 2: Ste. Michelle Pres/CEO Ted Baseler
• Marketing Wine As A Respite For Harried Woman
• Sonoma State Wine Business Institute Graduates First Online Students
• Stoller Family Estate Gets New Name, Tasting Room, Winegrowing Team
• Young Vine Decline is studied closely in Australia

HARVEST 2012

• Napa Grape harvest start a treat
• Napa Growers celebrate ‘perfect ripening weather’
• English winemakers pray for Indian summer

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• A roadmap to Family Winemakers of California
• Napa Wine Library celebrates 50 year
• Sonoma Valley Wine Auction at Chateau St. Jean

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• You’ll be a fat drunk before wine saves you from cancer
• Chocolate lovers show lower stroke risk

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Jack Daniels Leads Brown-Forman to 25 % net income growth
• Brown-Forman Beats on EPS
• Diageo: Bracing for worsening euro crisis
• Daniele Ricard to become Pernod chairman: report
• French spirits taxes rock Pernod Ricard
• Best year for Pernod Ricard since 2007/8, despite fall in UK sales

MARKETING & SALES

• Why Wineries NEED a Mobile Website. Part 2
• The Internet vs. Facebook in 10 Years

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Do you believe Wine Spectator bases its ratings solely on blind tasting?
• Natural wine: The critics rage … but the beat goes on

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• “It’s Not About the Grape” on Cabernet Day
• The Meanest Wine Accessory Ever
• Wild yeasts, part two
• Mission Grape’s Major Role in Calif Wine History
• California Wine by the Numbers
• Time to pop the cork on red wines from Douro
• Debunking 5 Common Wine Myths

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• FL: Jacksonville liquor distributor jailed on 70 charges
• ID: Wine Industry Readies for Growth

EUROPE AND THE UK

• LIWF aims to increase on-trade and independent participation with date change
• Outrage over Chinese Gevrey Chambertin purchase ‘storm in a teacup’

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Another Chinese investment in Australian wine
• OZ: Chinese appetite for Penfolds driving sales of Aussie fine wine
• OZ: Calls to protect vineyards from mining ramps up
• NZ: Growers keen on wine co-op

LATIN AMERICA

• Trapiche, Argentina’s best for the ‘Five Nations Wine Challenge’