NEWS FETCH – DECEMBER 12, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Top 10 Adult Beverage Trends for 2013
• $15 Million For Wine Advocate?
• Suspect identified in Brunello attack
• ProWein 2013: Younger Asian wine drinkers drive 5 key markets
• Rare hiccup for Diageo as it fails to swallow Jose Cuervo
• Farm employers confront ‘play-or-pay’ health care rule
• How Feds let industry pollute the nation’s underground water supply

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Would selling wine in grocery stores increase underage drinking?
• States Get Friendlier to Direct Wine Shipping

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Lodi’s Viaggio Winery hearing likely to be postponed
• Livermore wine tasting room bitter for neighbors
• Hamel Family Wines Breaks Ground On New Winery
  
• Napa County sends Climate Action Plan back for revisions

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Montreal collector sues Canada’s SAQ for $1m
• Liv-ex: Mouton 08 trades at £3,100
• Elite Advisers: letter to investors

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Do Self-Reports on Drinking Motives Reflect Reality?
• DISCUS Media Summit Promotes Responsible Alcohol Advertising
• Holiday Wine Giving You a Santa Belly?

OH CANADA!

• Wine shortage seems unikely
• Canadian Restaurant Mobile App by Top Food Critics
• Viticulture program at Okanagan College a growing career

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• No more SAP Brazil and Mexico compliance issues for Brown-Forman
• Diageo Thirsts for a New Tequila Shot after Jose Cuervo Deal Fails
• Diageo Vows To Retake Tequila Leadership
• Fitch Rates Brown-Forman’s Proposed $750MM Senior Notes Offering ‘A+’
• Diageo Will Terminate Distribution Deal

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Constellation Brands Launches Mobile App
• New Mobile App for American Wineries and Wine Trails
• Find the Perfect Bottle of Wine With This App
• The Human Algorithm: Redefining the Value of Data

MEDIA MATTERS

• Internet Boasting Doesn’t Equal Quality
• Wine Bloggers’ Conference – Call for Content Suggestions
• Succession Planning – Thoughts on the sale of Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
• Massive Shift in Wine Industry’s Most Powerful Voice

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MS: Corinth approves liquor and wine sales
• OR: Wine industry racks up record 2011 sales and production figures
• OR: Yamhill high schoolers earning college credit for viticulture
  

EUROPE

• Ferrari moving to higher vines as climate change effects felt
• Freezing temperatures bode well for Eiswein
• Wine tax increase will close Irish restaurants
• Domaine Marquis d’Angerville Expands to the Jura

THE UK

• Argentine wine, one of the few growing in the UK
• London on-trade outperforms regions for eighth consecutive month
• New wine shop goes online

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine industry to be at forefront of Australian tourism campaign
• NZ: Alcohol reforms ‘watered down’
• OZ: Wine in the aisles could prove fruitful
• OZ: Winemakers make bid to run visitor centre

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Cathay Pacific Could Stop Serving Wine in Pay Dispute

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine’s Periodic Table
• Boxed Wine More Vulnerable Than Bottled Wine
• Put an end to all the Fake Distilleries Don’t say it’s ‘homemade’ if comes from a factory

OLIVE OIL

• United States and Chine olive oil markets
• Italian extra virgin olive oil conquest India
• Spanish Olive Oil Sector Outraged by Dropped ‘Operation Lucerna’ Case