NEWS FETCH – OCTOBER 26, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Wine, other luxury goods market slows down
• Kurniawan: Catch Him If You Can (And They Did, Eventually)
• Daily deals risky for wineries
• BC may reverse crackdown on charity wine auctions
• World auction market may shrink by 20%, say experts
• Champagne sales swell after three-year lull

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• How a date night became a wine — and a Calistoga winery
• Court rules to keep Anselmo’s winery open while suit with county proceeds
• Plan to save Central California Coast coho salmon mapped out
• Learning about wine: marketing, sales, social media and management
• Healdsburg Decides Not To Change Policy on Wine Tasting Rooms

HARVEST 2012

• Winemakers – It’s 3 am, Do You Know Where Your Grapes Are?
• Rains Punctuate a ‘Perfect’ California Vintage
• Video: A Crucial Moment in the Harvest at Château Suduiraut
• Bordeaux 2012: Soft tannins and ‘ripe fruit’ potential say vignerons
• Harvest Napa Valley 2012 coming to a finish
• Stags Leap Harvest Immersion – Day 3
• Napa Valley’s Grapegrower report: Organic practices make the difference
• Bordeaux 2012: better but smaller than 2011

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Just two glasses of wine a day can damage the brain
• Red Wine Compound May Not Help Healthy Women
• UK Doctors call for 50p per unit alcohol pricing
• Sulfite’s headache is in labeling

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Yantai Changyu Wine Company Q3 net profit down 38%
• Sotheby’s Wine Sale Led by Montrachet, Lafite Nets $2.3 Million

OH CANADA!

• Pioneer of Prince Edward County wine industry dies
• 2012 was ‘challenging’ year for Ontario Ag
• Wine runs in the blood of Niagara-on-the-Lake grower

MEDIA MATTERS

• Eric Asimov Talks About New Book “How to Love Wine”
• Wine Wordsmith
• The Most Important Wine Book in Years

MATTERS OF TASTE

• A reader asks for Zin coverage, and Heimoff delivers
• Wine experts’ ratings – a load of … twaddle?
• Monastrell (aka Mourvedre) Adds Distinction to Its Workhorse Status

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY: Tulip kosher wines arrive
• OR: The Evolution of Sokol Blosser Wines
• OR: Truffle pioneers hope fungi business can rival wine
• VT: Truth in Juice: A Vermont wine column
• WA: Kestrel, Reininger enter Chinese wine market
• WA: New Ancient Lakes AVA offers prime soil for wine grapes

EUROPE

• Keeping Up With Tradition in Tuscany
• Chateau Margaux Tipped To Be The Next Lafite Rothschild
• Europe welcomes Brazil’s decision to drop safeguard enquiry on imported wines
• Old Style Claret Returns to Bordeaux

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: New Coles Liquor marketer reveals plan of attack

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China booze makers defy economic gloom

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The world’s rudest wine names
• A museum in Nizza Monferrato: the life and times of Arturo Bersano
• Vintage Notes: Whatever Happened To…?

OLIVES

• US Government Subsidizes Companies That Import Italian Olive Oil
• Latest Forecast Still Gloomy for Spanish Olive Oil Harvest
• Olive harvest brings unease to West Bank
• For Olive Council, ‘Positive Journalism’ Hard to Come By
• Olive Farming in India’s Rajasthan Rolls On