NEWS FETCH – JANUARY 7, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Warning on Possible Sale of Treasury Wine Estates
• Fires destroy Tasmanian vineyard
• Wine, grape symposium returns to Sacramento
• Increasing vine wood diseases worries Euro vignerons
• Ag Industry Gears Up For Next Farm Bill
• Concentration in the US Wine Industry: Depressing
• South African farm workers to revive wine region strikes

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Winery Exchange Acquires Our Daily Red & Orleans Hill
• Sonoma County enters 2013 with positive momentum
• San Joaquin Farm Bureau opposes deli on Acampo winery
• Napa winery renovates farmworker housing
• California Wine Industry Infographic
• Who Is Responsible For Napa’s Greenhouse Gases?
• Ty Caton Vineyards: convenient mall stop
• Peachy Canyon Announces Key Hires

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation On The Success Of Simply Naked
• Diageo would take 30 years to build United Spirits’ network

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Failed Investment Company Used Clients’ Cash For Overheads Not Wine
• Liv-ex: Bordeaux in 2012
• Romanee-Conti Underpins Bonhams Sales as Lafite Declines

HEALTH

• Is red wine really good for you?

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• The Grocery Store and Wine Debate

MARKETING & SALES

• Sauternes Sold in Bag-in-Box
• Randall Grahm Gets Naked
• E-commerce site uncovers a world of wine hidden in the shadows
• Clever wine packaging for people on the go
• New screw caps for Italian wines

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Does “All wine mostly taste the same”?
• The Secret Official Sommelier Manual

MEDIA MATTERS

• Third Sideways novel to be set in Chile

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• TN: Wine sale, health care battles are anticipated

WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Researchers contend an El Nino and climate change link
• Counting The Cost of the Anti-GMO Movement

EUROPE

• Bigger vineyards ‘a threat’ to German wine
• Austrian Wines: Don’t Let the Names Fool You
• Spanish winery Protos signs distribution deal with PLB

THE UK

• Britain’s drinking culture is deeply unhealthy. So is the politics of drink

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Winery set for a record crush
• OZ: Words, wine and wisdom

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• What happens if wine freezes, plus seven more atypical questions
• Freezing wine: harder than you might think
• Nebbiolo and Politics in 1950s Italy
• Being the Best “Me” You Will Ever Be
• Guy Stout – True Grit Texan and California Wine Stylist

OLIVE OIL

• Soon to be born Himalayan olive oil
• Negative outlook for Italian and Spanish olive oil productions
• The extra virgin olive oil will contribute to sales of seed oils
• U.S. International Trade Commission investigates on olive oil industry