NEWS FETCH – JANUARY 25, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Pressing times push Aussies into US wine market
• Direct sales of wine rise 10 percent last year
• US consumers ‘confused’ by multiple Sonoma AVAs
• Craft beer becoming alternative to wine at the dinner table
• Lot18 Picks Up Pieces Of TastingRoom.Com
• Why growth in bulk wine will boost branded wine
• Duckhorn asks N.Y. winery to modify label and sales
• Eastern Promise: east coast US wines
• South Africa’s Wrong Vintage
• Vilsack lays out farm bill wish list
• Sandy Saga: Fedway’s Perfect Storm
• Mexico – wine consumption set to treble by 2020
• Here’s How Much China Appreciates French Wine

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Top California Winegrower Recognized
• Drake honored by wine grape growers group
• New wine group gaining steam in Mendocino County
• Urban wineries are pouring into San Francisco.
• Sonoma County distillers seek to end anti-tasting law
• Is peace possible in Delta water wars?

HEALTH

• Mediterranean diet may not protect the aging brain: study

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Q&A on oxygen and wine shipping and bottling
• Argentina focusing on ‘more subtle styles’

OH CANADA!

• BC: Wine industry’s growth slows in face of ‘fierce’ international competition
• Canucks owner can keep wine in divorce

ACADEMIA

• CA: Wine studies grow at Napa Valley College
• NY: Geneva Viticulture Center Funded
• WA: Updated Lab Manual for Winemakers Now Available
• WA: Chelan Wine Tour Offers Continuing Education for Grape Growers and Winemakers
• WA: Vine to Wine” Workshop Teaches Business, Production Techniques

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Interview: G. Garvin Brown IV, chairman of Brown-Forman

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Le Pin 2007 Pomerol Rises 12% to Record $17,700 on Liv-ex Market

MARKETING & SALES

• Marketing constantly reinvents itself… and has more and more strings attached

MEDIA MATTERS

• Want to be part of a book deal?
• The Wine Writer Classification of 2013

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MO: Has the drought hurt the wine business?
• MD: Wine shop owners say proposed rezoning is overkill
• OR: Liquor privatization issue still percolating
• WA: The Californians are coming! The Californians are coming!
• WA: More stores offering popular wine tastings

EUROPE & THE UK

• Portugal – wine production up by 9 percent in 2012
• Sweden’s Expanding Vineyards
• Half of UK high street retailers plan spring staff cuts
• ‘Morphing’ wine regulations scare Russian importers
• English wine experts question need for regionality
• Russia may lift ban on bottled wine from Georgia
• Bergerac – short crop provides welcome boost to prices
• 2012 – the year Champagne will want to forget
• Portuguese wine makes a comeback, demand increases in Asia
• Slovenia’s Ancient Hills, Lush Once More

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Yalumba pulls its wines from NRA Wine Club
• OZ: Wine industry calling on Aussies to be patriotic this Australia Day

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Hike in VAT, excise leaves Indian wine industry high and dry
• Wine World Shanghai 2013 – Reinvent The Classics…

LATIN AMERICA

• Luis Felipe Edwards buys 700ha in Colchagua
• World leaders treated to wine, salmon and glowing statistics as Chile hosts summit

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Ice-Wine Harvest in Pictures
• Dead Of Winter: Sonoma
• Reading between the Wines; by Terry Theise
• Guy Fieri’s Big Gulp
• Wine Bar Rules
• Uncorked: Ordering wine

OLIVE OIL

• China: An Olive Oil Superpower?