NEWS FETCH – OCTOBER 23, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Calif agency says farmworker suit ‘risks draining resources’
• Canadian LCLB Halts Charity Wine Auction
• Michigan Alcohol Law and the Politics of Corruption

HARVEST 2012

• Sonoma Vines Finishing Strong
• Sunday’s rain no threat to Napa grape harvest
• Sustainability At Harvest
• Wineries call 2012 vintage a success
• North Bay vintners prepared for powerful rains
• The Harvest Is Over. Long Live The Vintage.
• The 2012 Harvest Report- Bane or Blessing?

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Judge rules in favor of providing extra water habitat for Santa Ana sucker
• Delta water gates stay open for salmon
• Oakstone’s New Owners Know The Territory

OH CANADA!

• Canadian Retail Wine Sales Decline in August
• California firm sues BC over 30-year-old water deal

MARKETING & SALES

• Reasons to Market Wine to Women
• Argentine Malbec: The best value in red wine today
• The world boom of Muscat

MEDIA MATTERS

• Pinotage Persecuted in WSJ
• Dale Robertson, a Populist Among Wine Writers

MATTERS OF TASTE

• White Rhône-style blends on the rise
• Terroir: Who Cares?
• Natural wine is an unnecessarily divisive subject
• Why Overoaked Wines Get High Scores
• Bitter the Devil You Know
• Stupid tasting notes
• Unreasonable Prejudices
• A vote against disgorgement dates: Peter Wasserman

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Removing Smoke Taint with Fining Agents
• Oxygen and Wine: What’s Too Much and Too Little?

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Why Liv-ex data is the industry standard
• Treasury Wine says wine glut is over
• 1855: appeals for witnesses, for evidence (in French)
• Jancis Robinson Rails Against Fine Wine Purely As Investment
• Treasury hit by 2011 harvest

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Treasury, Woolies back healthier (low-alc) wines
• Low Alcohol Sparkler Hits Aussie Supermarkets
• Alcohol companies target African-American youth
• Wine improves pig heart

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY: New York Wines in China: Opportunities, Challenges and a Unique Education
• NY: Ravines Wine Cellars Expands
• PA: Decipher LCB Clues, Taxpayers Lose

EUROPE

• Magrez Buys Clos Haut-Peyraguey in Sauternes
• Champagne fraudsters jailed

THE UK

• High taxes killing beer sales
• UK to become expert resource centre for global wine supply

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Chinese money a rich harvest for winery
• NZ: Farming: Best and worst of times
• NZ wine looks to cement Asia presence
• OZ: Call for wine taxes to be simplified as grape glut ends, new markets open

SOUTH AFRICA

• Extreme Wine South Africa: Oldest Living Wine?

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Do you Need to Lay Down Wines with a Synthetic Cork?
• What’s in a corkscrew?
• In Bordeaux, wine classes for kids

OLIVE OIL

• How ‘extra-virgin’ is your olive oil?
• With olive oil, freshness counts more than cost