NEWS FETCH – NOVEMBER 13, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Are We Really Facing a Wine Shortage in 2013?
• How to Calculate Winery Value
• USL-Diageo: Deal to take time on regulatory woes
• How drones are helping the wine industry
• Millennial To Wine Biz: I’d Love Your Wine, If Could Afford It
• Shifting Landscape for Online Wine Sales
• Wine tasters who are depressed may be losing ability to smell
• 10,000 bottles of Lafite found in abandoned Chinese house
• Citigroup Former Boss Parsons Eyes Profit in Italian Wine
• Is DRC the world’s most important wine producer?

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Wrapping Up Harvest & Crush Season Around The North Coast
• VinoEnology’s Free Marketplace Helps Connect Vintners, Growers & Suppliers
• Stark Wine Wins Injunction Against Diageo

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The essence of wine snobbery
• A fly on the wall of a blind tasting
• Criticism, Expertise and the Value of Opinion
• Don’t Scare the Wine Drinkers, Please
• How To Understand Robert Parker’s Impact on the Wine World
• 15 Versus 95,000: Silver Oak and the Question of Tastemaker Opinion

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex:Value in the 2000s?
• 1816 Yquem goes under the hammer in New York

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Resveratrol could boost radiation therapy
• Resveratrol From Red Wine Grapes Could Help Kill Prostate Tumor Cells
• Are there actually health benefits inherent in alcohol?

MARKETING & SALES

• Holiday Email Best Practices
• NZ Expert exposes wine discounting ruses
• Facebook’s EdgeRank Changes Pressure Brands to Engage Better

MEDIA MATTERS

• Video summary of Euro Wine Blogger’s Conference
• Digital Wine Communications Conference Speech, Izmir, Turkey,
• Frank Prial: Blunt But Fair, And Often Funny
• Book Reviews: Wine World Upside Down
• History of American Wine Webinar Now Available Free Through UVA

OH CANADA!

• Bank paints rosy view of wine biz

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• WA: Railex train wine traffic may double

EUROPE

• A ‘rare but precious 2012′ for Burgundy
• Bordeaux’s Haut-Brion Buys Neighbor

THE UK

• No longer ‘Chateau Chunder’: Britain toasts Australian wine

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• In China’s Outback: Australian Lilian Carter on making wine in Xinjiang

LATIN AMERICA

• Chilean Pioneer Hates Heavy Rock When He’s Drinking Wine
• Familia Blanco, a history handed down for generations

SOUTH AFRICA

• Average Vineyard Worker Wages in South Africa – Emerging as a BRICS Country

OLIVES

• Olive Trees Face ‘Death by Saw’ in Greece