NEWS FETCH – DECEMBER 3, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Accolade moves N.American HQ from Healdsburg to Napa
• Private label won’t last: Treasury Wine
• NY Gov’s booze-reform plan, higher taxes: sobering news
• US Ag Exports To Reach Record In FY13
• Restaurant operators pessimistic on sales growth
• West coast harvest … more good news
• The WBWE confirms the emergence of a whole new bulk wine market

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Ex-Mountain Winery owner killed in home
• Brutocao Selling Schoolhouse facility
• California water board sued over delay on ag runoff rules
• Vintner gets approval to build new resort

IS BIGGER BETTER?

• Is bigger really better?
• With Wine, Bigger May Be Better—Or Preferable
• Family-owned v ‘big wine’: AFFW responds

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• PA: Liquor Control Board spent $475K to hype own brands

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Child’s IQ influenced by mother alcohol intake during pregnancy

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• USL-Diageo Deal: Misleading Open Offer?
• Vinance client database bought by Albany Vinters
• Willamette Valley Vineyards Q3 net income down
• A Naked toast to crowd funding
• Liv-ex: Lesser Lafite outperforms
• Spain’s Famed elBulli Restaurant Sells Wine Cellar
• Krug collection 100% sold in NY

MARKETING & SALES

• Low-Priced Malbec Wine May Disappear From Shelves
• Social Media Comes of Age
• Menage A Trois Wines: Sweet And Sexy Or Simply Salacious?
• Social not just for CSM
• How not to make a wine video

MEDIA MATTERS

• Heimoff & Mabray in the same room, and we all got out alive
• The internet and the death of the generalist

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine Experts & Foodies: Super Tasters? Faking It?
• Winemakers blend tradition and technology
• Tasting note variations and training
• Bashing The Sommelier
• Prosecco: Production method and styles
• Turkish Wine Renaissance Promotes Rock-Aged Whites

OH CANADA!

• NS wineries benefit from unique soil

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY: New York Wine & Culinary Center teams up with community colleges
• PA: Local partners wait patiently for vintages to mature
• TN: Prospects brighten for wine in groceries
• TN: Ramsey, Harwell endorse wine in grocery stores
• TX: Record grape harvest on the South Plains
• VA: Sunday alcohol sales surge

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Healthier Vines Yield Better Wines
• New Pest Invades Western Vineyards

EUROPE

• French beer tax resurrects the old wine vs. beer cultural rift
• Château Hemp?

THE UK

• UK 2012 harvest – one that growers ‘want to forget’
• Bibendum directors leave as business “streamlined”

DOWN UNDER

• China rapidly becoming NZ’s biggest wine market
• NZ: Hawke’s Bay driving Asian thirst for NZ wine
• NZ: Optimism as Wine Glut Wanes

LATIN AMERICA

• Bulk still the driving force of Argentine wine exports

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• How long can I keep this open bottle?
• About those Jefferson bottles

OLIVE OIL

• United States and Chine olive oil markets
• Italian extra virgin olive oil conquest India
• Argentina Declares Olive Oil a ‘National Food’
• Imports Exceed Output in First Month of Spanish Olive Oil Harvest