NEWS FETCH – NOVEMBER 2, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Farm Bill Expiration Hurting Ag Exports
• San Fran Vineyard Fund Trying To Raise $100 Mil
• Restaurant operators upbeat despite soft sales, traffic
• Virgin Wines expanding
• NY wine merchants count cost of Hurricane Sandy
• Treasury plans $11m growth at new NZ Winery
• Poll: Pennsylvanians Plead for Privatization
• ‘America Fermented’ explores history of alcohol in America
• Tesco shoppers get £60 worth of wine for just £9 after glitch

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma County struggling with what to allow on ag lands
• New book showcases Mendocino County vintners
• Passalacqua Winery Names Sarah Kelley Direct Sales Manager

HARVEST 2012

• Vintage 2012: a year for careful picking from France’s vineyards
• What can we expect from the 2012 wine harvest?
• South Africa grape projections on course as early harvest begins
• German winemaker reaps a 700-year-old monastic legacy
• Canada: Grapes bursting with profits
• Harvest Update – Sta Rita Hills – California
• Harvest shortage: producers urged to rein in prices
• Port producers try treading machines

HEALTH

• A Tribute To Serge Renaud
• Genuine consumer demand for low alcohol wines
• High-Fat Meal with Olive Oil Can Have Immediate Positive Effects

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 Index falls 0.64% in October
• Ausone and DRC fall in October

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine Porn: Do Some Labels Cross the Line?
• Be a Customer for a Day
• Wine Rep Says Goodbye

MATTERS OF TASTE

• You can’t identify your own wine in a blind tasting?
• Que Bonarda?
• Larry Stone on wine education, ICC Dean of Wine Studies

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Monkey found trying to open bottle of red wine
• Feiring: The Rescue
• French Enthusiasts Turn Archaeologists To Save Heirloom Grape Varieties
• How a Data Guru, and Entertainment Engineer Went Deep Into Wine
• Vintage Notes: “Go, Bears,” Go Tree

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• CT: Maugle Sierra Vineyards and Winery
• FL: First Coast was first in the US for making wine
• IN: Keeping it natural defines new Steuben Co. winery
• NY: Nyack Alcohol Ban Until Street Lights Return
• TX: Lawsuit planned to stop beer and wine vote
• WA: Right place at the right time for pioneering family’s wine

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• The risk of spoilage yeast contamination during natural yeast fermentations
• Terrepure system “cleans and ages” spirits in just hours

EUROPE

• Rioja and Tempranillo lead Spanish charge

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine regions protection passes Parliament
• OZ: Health body calls for changes to alcohol taxation

LATIN AMERICA

• Panama axes US spirits duty

SOUTH AFRICA

• A foundling of great charm