NEWS FETCH – OCTOBER 24, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Ram’s Gate Sues Former Broker/Attorney Over Roche Winery Acquisition
• Wine auction market shrinking, Lafite bubble bursts
• The History of Amazon and Wine: What Has Changed?
• Got Breast Cancer? Here Come Marketers With Wine That Causes It
• SymphonyIRI: Gen-Xers Frugal Ways, Overall Consumer Sentiment Up
• Craft beer is overtaking wine
• Vintners: Don’t be Frightened by Bioterrorism Act Rules
• What kind of wine goes with fracking?
• Aussie Weather Bureau ditches El Nino forecast
• Peñaflor group will invest USD 91 million in Argentina
• The Truth About The Three-Tier System’s Legal Consumer Fraud

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Lodi Gains Visibility
• New Perspectives on California Rhone Reds
• Wildfires force ranchers into tough choices

HARVEST 2012

• App Links Grapegrowers and Buyers
• Sonoma’s ‘Excellent’ Harvest Brings Economic Relief
• Napa Harvest: It’s a Grind
• Burgundy faces smallest harvest since 1950s
• Arizona wine industry celebrates 2012 harvest

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex valuations
• Famed French Restaurant To Sell Off Pre-French Revolution Cognacs

MEDIA MATTERS

• What writers really say about wines we don’t like
• When should a winery wave the white flag?Living Wine

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Pinot Noir: to blend or vineyard designate?
• Tuning Into Antonio Galloni’s Palate
• Screwcap pioneers gonged, pledge to take over the world
• Naked Terroir and Biodynamic Wines
• Understanding how wines taste of growing place increases enjoyment
• Naked Terroir and Biodynamic Wines
• From Grape to Glass
• When Yeasts Run Wild

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Regional Wine Week set for Nov. 12-16
• IL: Wine industry continues expansion
• NY: Beer, Wine & Spirits Summit Today

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Vines’ Natural Defenses Against Mildew IncreaseS Polyphenol Level
• New defenses against phylloxera and Grapevine fanleaf virus

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: New partnership boosts viticulture programme
• New Zealand opens Hong Kong office

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China’s top importers on Prats’ departure
• Castel wine tasting first comes to Lhasa
• Vinitaly Tour reports Importers’ view on Asian wine markets

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina’s Catena family launches new wines in UK through Enotria
• Berger on the wines of Chile, Argentina

OLIVES

• Olive oil production outlook: Spain mourns, Italy does not laugh
• Greek olive oil controlled by British-Dutch companies