NEWS FETCH – JANUARY 28, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Casella Wines moves towards debt restructure
• Wanted: the USA’s Missing Wine Drinkers
• Looking For Logic: Cigarettes, Lot18, Fred Franzia & Wine Inventory
• Parallels in the California and Australian Wine Industries
• SSU economic outlook conference to he held at Green Center
• China to be No. 1 market for WSET students in 2013
• Wines of South Africa protests Guardian ‘boycott’ poll
• Clean-food movement attracts investors
• Riondo Continues Rapid US Growth In U.S.
• Enoitalia Launches US Wine Importer, Enovation Brands
• Calif Vintners Reach Out To China with Virtual Tasting

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Woe Is Sonoma Valley—For It Is Within the County
• Wine Drinkers Know Bugger-All About Sonoma
• Sonoma Vly: Mountain Terraces Vineyard Sold
• Wine studies grow at Napa Valley College
• John Parducci celebrates his 95th birthday
• Winemaker Debuts at SLO’s San-Juliette

HEALTH

• Is alcohol a fatburner?
• Wineries Offered Responsible Alcohol Training From WineAmerica
• Countries disagree on safe drinking advice

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Apple Eats Up Blackberry In Wine Sites’ User Data
• A Somm’s thoughts On TastingRoom.com

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Five Bottles: A New Old Way to Evaluate Wine
• Why do most restaurants serve sucky wine?
• The somm’s evolving role in today’s modern restaurant
• What Do Wine Consultants Do, Exactly?
• Slow Food Needs Slow Wine
• Wine Pairings for Girl Scout Cookies: Samoas & Port?
• 100-year-old winemaking modernises Aussie industry
• A Year in the Life of a Professional Wine Drinker

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo’s Indian deal hits delay but African venture advances

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex: Mouton 2003 creeps back up
• 2008 Bordeaux revisited
• Should You Buy the Bordeaux 2010 Winemakers Prefer Most?

OH CANADA!

• Free the Sheep!
• BC winery recognized for best white wine in Canada

MEDIA MATTERS

• Les Terroiristes du Languedoc – world première
• New York Library Seeks Volunteers To Decode Wine Lists And Menus

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• CO: Mega-Retailer Daveco For Sale
• FL: Total Wine brings competition to Brevard
• ND: Grape growers, wine makers invited to conference
• NY: Ontario County ready to build Finger Lakes Viticulture Center
• NY: Recognizing Wine Country Restaurants That Support Local Wine
• TN: Give Stores Time To Adjust To Wine Bill
• TX: Growing Texas wine industry spills over into local economy
• WA: Wine-tasting could expand to more farmers markets
• WA: More local groceries offering popular wine tastings

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Return on Involvement – The new ROI

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Global Discussion On Vineyard Trunk Diseases

EUROPE & THE UK

• Has Italian Wine Been Hijacked Angry White Men?
• Horizons reports UK Christmas dining-out decline
• Vranken-Pommery sales fall
• Wine regions miss out on UNESCO status
• Bordeaux’s New Wine Center Begins To Take Shape
• About 3.3 billion rubles to be spent for the viticulture development in Dagestan
• Italian Merlots: Tenuta dell’Ornellaia’s Masseto

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Gov’t, wine industry jointly target China with training program
• OZ: NSW wine research set for an overhaul
• OZ: Wine visionary continues to pour in the hard work

LATIN AMERICA

• Time to open up to trade, EU tells Argentina, Brazil
• What are the 20 Argentine wines conquering China?

SOUTH AFRICA

• South African harvest ‘all calm’, report wineries
• Boycott poll ‘inappropriate’ and ‘damaging’

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Everything you need to know about cheap wine

OLIVE OIL

• Details Emerge of Europe’s Crackdown on Olive Oil Fraud
• Olive Extract Jeans Said to Moisturize Legs
• Manzanilla Cacereña

TRITE, MEANINGLESS HEADLINE

• BinWise, Inc. Launches New Product for Restaurant Group Owners And Operators – New product? What is it? Why should anyone care? What does it do? What benefits? The lead sentence of the release is just as bad.

OKAY HEADLINE, BUT BETTER WITHOUT THE USUAL EGO TRIP

• WineAmerica Partners with TIPS to Bring Responsible Alcohol Training to Wineries – The compulsion to list all of the parties involved first, buries the real news. Benefits and other “why should I care?” elements should always come first. The name of your organization or company may be the most important thing to you, but … SURPRISE! … it won’t be to most readers. Even better: “Wineries Offered Responsible Alcohol Training From WineAmerica.” This puts the benefits and beneficiaries first.