NEWS FETCH – NOVEMBER 21, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Global wine investment broker Vinance Goes Under
• Foley Buys Ramal East Vineyard
• Is wine genetically modified?
• Calif economy down in Sept
• Calif Wine Harvest: High Quality, Big Volume
• Restaurants to mitigate health care costs by cutting hours
• Nova Scotia proposes law for cross-border wine import
• Smithsonian to Open American Wine Exhibit

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• 3 Winegrowers to be honored at San Joaquin Industry Forum
• Talkin’ social media at UC Davis
• Lodi Winemakers Happy Over Big 2012 Crush
• Chinese Investors Shift to Burgundy and California Wine

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Alcoholic consumption may boost recurrence of breast cancer
• Higher Alcohol Taxes Needed To Reduce Young People’s Drinking
• Lose Holiday Weight? Lose The Wine & Cocktails

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Château Migraine or Château Riche? Wine as a Financial Asset (AAWE pdf)
• Liv-ex: Trade shares changing

MARKETING & SALES

• Risk taking when buying wine: an experimental investigation (AAWE pdf)
• New World unites for tasting of ‘beautiful south’
• Priced-out Bordeaux fans shop elsewhere

MEDIA MATTERS

• Young Wine Writer 2012 announced
• How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Food & Wine Matching in China. Worth pursuing? Or a waste of time?
• Presenting natural wines to a curious audience
• Terroir from Above

EUROPE

• Calls for Independence Worry Catalonia’s Cava Producers
• Wine and Turkey: Not a Thanksgiving Story
• New chairman for Rémy Cointreau
• Plaimont releases phylloxera resistant cuvée

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: High hopes as Wine Glut Wanes
• OZ: Riverina wineries hope to see red this summer
• OZ: SA winery leading the way in climate action
• OZ: Wine supplier of the year winners

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Australia’s leading family wineries focus on China
• Gerard Basset to China sommeliers: Your job is sales

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Growing Rogue
• I’m Thankful For … Thomas Fogarty Wines
• China wine maps: Where is Ningxia? And where are its wineries?

OLIVE OIL

• Coles praised for complying with olive oil standards
• Chile’s Olisur Continues International Expansion
• Celebrating Olio Nuovo
• Lebanon’s Olive oil survives foreign competition
• Fresh, pressed olive oil is all mine

WINE PORN

• The 100 points wine glass for that pesky wine snob on your list