NEWS FETCH – JANUARY 10, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Electronic Invoices Illegal in California
• Small restaurateurs may see 5% fiscal cliff tax hikes
• Trinchero Expands Into Washington Wine
• 3 Years After Court Ruling, Legislative Inaction Stymies Direct Shipping
• Diageo, Charmer Sign Distro Deal
• Riots in S.Africa may not be connected to wine

PLONK AND CIRCUMSTANCE

• Inauguration wines: plonk and circumstance
• Presidential Lunch Menu Flouts Wine Regulations
• “Champagne” Consumer Fraud

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Rewriting rules for wineries – Lompoc
• 500 people remember enologist, grower Heinemann
• Arnot-Roberts’ homegrown talents
• Livermore winery began with friendship

HEALTH

• Resveratrol in Red Wine May Be Beneficial but Beware the Alcohol
• Drinking Mirror app aims to show how alcohol ages you
• Counting calories: think before you drink

NOTE TO READERS: I scour news sites for health news, both positive and negative. I am struck how overwhelmingly negative the headlines have become. And yet, the wine industry and its trade associations continue to be AWOL on the issue. The French Paradox phenomenon and its effects can fade rapidly in the absence of solid, fact-based responses.

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation raises profit forecast

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Tips for Spotting Counterfeit Wine
• More Fears of Fake Wines in China
• Supply issues speed up Burgundy trend
• Liv-ex interview with Jean-Marc Quarin
• Zachys Auctions: Wine is an Affordable Investment

MARKETING & SALES

• Pinot Grigio, a lesson to be learnt by Malbec?
• NZ wine sells at half the price in US
• Are great wine lists gone for good?

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Mitigating Risk in Social Media Engagement
• Heineken winning Facebook drinks race but Smirnoff spirits rising

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Running a Regional Wine Association
• Want a New Job? Beware ‘Phantom’ Postings

MEDIA MATTERS

• New Year’s Resolutions for the Wine PR Professional
• 6 changes the Baseball Hall of Fame should learn from the Vintners Hall of Fame

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Trivializing the Terroir
• Aussie wine trends: Grenache reappraisal
• The Surprising Truth About Oaking Wine
• Sulfur dioxide in winemaking: trick or treat?
• Who’s Your Daddy?: Pošip bijeli
• Truth About a Much Misunderstood Grape: Marsanne

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MI: Wine country north of the 45th parallel
• NY: Mystery Man Reveals Plans for Boundary Breaks
• NY: Finger Lakes wine to be served at Obama inaugural lunch
• OH: Tycoon Magrez Credits Ohio Supermarkets For Early Success
• PA: Paris continues to tap into some of state’s’s top wines
• TN: Cops fear worst if wine sales OK’d for convenience stores

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Don’t let sediment scare you
• The World’s First Wine Created In Support Of LGBT Equality
• Q&A with meteorite-aged winemaker
• Are Bourbon Drinkers the Best Tippers?

EUROPE & THE UK

• Feuillatte retains value, loses volume

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Imported wine market shows the Matthew Effect

LATIN AMERICA

• Chilean Wines: Good Values, High Ambitions

SOUTH AFRICA

• South African Farm Production Unaffected by Strike, Agri SA Says
• ‘Wine farms seek to cut out brokers’

OLIVE OIL

• Germans Head to Crete to Harvest Olives
• An Olive Tree for Every Home in La Rioja, Argentina