NEWS FETCH – DECEMBER 21, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Beer, wine, off-sale among worst businesses for 2013
• Jackson wines buying 877 acres in Mendocino County
• Next In Line For A Fracking Boom, Calif Looks At The Rules
• Sotheby’s 2012 Wine Auction Sales Plunge 25 Percent
• Champagne at Cava prices could seriously damage category
• No farms? No wine
• Women Drive India’s Newfound Love Of Wine
• 10 percent of all Bordeaux wines bound for China
• Canadian Province Opens to DTC Wine Shipments

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Alpen Cellars Builds Its Own Power Grid
• LA Continues Water War Against State
• The Shafer legacy – Napa

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Credit Suisse cuts forecasts for Diageo
• JP Morgan gives thumbs up to Diageo’s potential $10bn bid for Beam
• Accolade plans Hardy’s relaunch

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• The 2012 Liv-ex Power 100
• French Vineyards benefiting from globalised real estate market

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Study shows how red wine compound slows aging

MARKETING & SALES

• People Who Make $500 Wines, $10 Wines, and Everything in Between
• Wine Gifting Bounces Back from Recession
• Salon.com launches wine flash site
• New Mobile Application Development for America’s Wine Trails

MEDIA MATTERS

• Natalie Maclean – the gift that keeps on giving
• World’s Best Wine Writer Busted
• Wine Technology of the Future: Multi-Stream Wine Aerating Device

MANAGEMENT

• The Power of an Open and Honest Apology

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How The Current Generation of Sommeliers Got Into Wine
• Petite Sirah: a consideration
• Uncle Milton’s Biodynamic Ant Farm

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• WA: Wine Science Center at Tri-Cities seeks design-build proposals

EUROPE

• From Porn Star To Wine Maven
• A curse on Château d’Yquem?
• Bordeaux Grands Crus Elect New President
• French wine ‘should be protected’ by French law
• Bordeaux’s new UGC president urges more involvement

THE UK

• LIWF director to leave in January
• Creditors prepare claims as Thierry’s goes into administration

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Still fortified, Buller family seeks buyer as winery trading continues
• OZ: South Australian grapegrowers protest on the streets

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Grape Wall Challenge 2012