NEWS FETCH – OCTOBER 16, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Food,wine producers urge less government intervention
• Restaurant Traffic Down in Sept
• Wine Sales Strong; Syrah’s Struggle Continues
• Plantings down, production up for Australia
• States Hope Hard Liquor Will Help Fix Their Economies
• Washington’s 13th AVA Approved
• Harry & David launches own wine label
• Wine prices, Amazon, Champagne fraud
• Food & wine fraud tackled by forensic scientists
• BC Wine Law Reform After Privatization

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• CDFA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Workshops Set
• Prominent Sonoma County attorney, farmer Arthur Lafranchi dies

HARVEST 2012

• Winery automates grape picking wages with NFC
• UCC students begin processing first grapes to come into Lang Center
• Chablis harvest down by 40% in places
• WA: Regional wineries buzzing
• Jordan grape harvest: fast, big and beautiful

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• LVMH: 22% increase in revenue for the first 9 months of 2012
• Wine is “most social treasure”

MARKETING & SALES

• Better Q4 Email Marketing For Wineries

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine News Online: A Paying Proposition

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Red Sauvignon Blanc Hits Market
• Nathan Myhrvold’s Counterintuitive Advice On Red Wine, Foie Gras, Salad
• “Proof-Of-Concept” sparkler

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• IA: Kurt Schade Says Schade Creek May Never Open to the Public
• NC: State wine industry produces some of the best sips around
• NM: Winemaker’s business holdings may be claimed in Caprock bankruptcy
• VA: State vintners get a proper nod

EUROPE

• Lanson bucks Champagne trend with sales growth
• Winemakers must pay dues to CIVB, court rules
• Key Italian wine producers call for united strategy
• Trocken roll: Riesling remixed
• Urban Parisian Vines Produce Wine With A Drop Of History
• New £200 ‘concept’ wines from Bordeaux
• Greece is a museum inside a bottle of wine

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Grape glut end in sight as South Coast industry stays firm
• China Laps Up Australian Wine
• OZ: Piracy sours WA wine boom in China
• OZ: Cold snap takes toll on Barossa vines

LATIN AMERICA

• A sip of sustainable Chile
• Wines of Chile Launches Trade-Specific Website

SOUTH AFRICA

• Extreme Wine South Africa: De Toren Book 17 XVII

ANOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• What would Jesus drink?
• Stone Age People Made White Wine