NEWS FETCH – SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Alcohol Privatization Bad For Washington Consumers
• America Drinking Top-End Wine Fuels Napa Deals
• Is The Wine Business Sustainable?
• Fast-Growing North Bay Wine Companies
• Good News About U.S. Economy and Wine Sales
• Wine Ratings Hurt Consumers
• Wine industry focus of PBS special
• Supply squeeze means end of NZ wine under $10
• A Meal Without a Mexican? Your Food Has Already Migrated!

OH CANADA!

• BC wineries learn that a celebration of wine and song increases bottom line
• Wine on roll in Nova Scotia
• PEI wineries say hot, dry weather good for crops

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma County to study impacts on Russian River water quality
• Sonoma Valley winemakers’ son dies after skateboarding accident
• Sonoma Loses Two Bright Lights And A Glimpse Of The Future
• Harvest hopes fuel Sonoma Valley Wine Auction
• Malibu winery can be all yours for $59.5Mil
• Which Calif Counties Added Most Vineyard Acres in the Past 5yrs?
• Turley Wine Cellars Buys Zinfandel Producer Karly Wines
• Unplugging from California wine country
• Winery owners, Santa Clara County at odds
• Gallo Gets Into Rum

HARVEST 2012

• Harvest starts in Washington State
• Missouri vineyard owners expect the best 2012 vintage
• Two-Decade Low For French Grape Harvest
• Home winemakers ready for crush
• An ideal Napa growing season paves the way to an energetic harvest

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• The harm that ‘relaxing’ glass of wine has on your health
• Six good reasons to toast your health with wine

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Pernod Ricard in champagne push
• NZ Pernod Ricard winery on the market
• Distell Buys Majority Stake In Chinese Distribution Company…
• Dynasty Wine Group: irregularity of imported wine market expanding
• Brown-Forman Earnings Call
• Plunging wine sales put Dynasty in the red
• UK authorities to crack down on selling of wine investments
• One Lesson You Must Learn to Collect Wine
• Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 Index rises 0.43% in August
• Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 remains flat

MARKETING, SALES & MANAGEMENT

• Boxed Wine Now Comes In A High-End Fashion Purse
• Things to Know in Trademark Registration
• Corporate political stands may lead to consumer alienation
• Yo, mama, now comes chateau time!
• 7 Keys to Advice Management

MEDIA MATTERS

• Is Wine Blogging Really Dead?
• Heimoff: How I got into wine
• Motivation matters in blogging and social media
• Doughnuts, dead computers, and other 2012 Wine Bloggers

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine, Women and the idiots around us
• How Many Wineries Survived Prohibition?
• Watch £100,000 corkscrew in action
• Beer-Glass Shape Determines How Fast (and Much) We Drink

MATTERS OF TASTE

• What Happened to New Zealand Pinot Noir?
• Washington’s reds find a sweet spot
• Determining Wine Preferences by Olfactory Cues and Aromatic Attributes

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Sell wine grapes across Midwest with MarketMaker
• TX: Local winery opening its doors
• MO: Local Wineries Are Weathering Drought
• MO: Chart, Wine grape production
• PA: Long dormant, Seven Valleys Winery to reopen
• PA: PLCB Drinks Taxpayers Under Table
• Washington wine may have a future!
• WA: Woodinville locked in tug of war: wine, tourists and farms

ACADEMIA

• Wine and cheese for SSU business alumni
• Vine To Wine Workshop & F…
• IGGPRA awards scholarships to Cal Poly viticulture students

EUROPE & THE UK

• August sees UK retailers suffer worst sales of year
• Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion doubles in size