NEWS FETCH – JANUARY 29, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Allied Grape Growers Reports On Calif’s Record 2012 Crush (.pdf)
• Central Valley irrigation helps rainfall in Southwest
• Immigration Framework Offers Ag Provisions
• Argentine winery to bottle in California
• Casella dismisses reports of financial difficulties
• First Strikes, Now Fires Threaten S. Africa’s Wine
• Laird Family Estate Buys Silverado Hill Winery
• DFV Wines’ Top Five Labels Surged In 2012
• China’s thirst for Australian wines golden: for now
• France And Spain Set To Benefit From Rising U.S. Wine Intake
• Why Monterey Beat Napa as Calif’s Top Wine Destination
• Risk brings sweet reward for ice wine makers

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Winery expansion plans unsettle grower-winery relations
• Alleged tastings get Patland winery in hot water
• California Sees World’s First Wireless Winery
• Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty Invites Blog Readers To Reception at Unified
• Amorim opens Napa sales and distribution center

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Is Burgundy The Only Region Making Great Pinot Noir?
• Israel should focus on Syrah
• New critical alternative: In Pursuit of Balance wines
• New smoke taint test developed

OH CANADA!

• BC premier seeking new Ontario wine regulations

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Question time for Diageo chief after failed tequila talks
• Chinese New Year Sales Boom for Legacy

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• The Liv-ex 50 by currency
• Mouton-Rothschild 2003 Reaches $5,180 Nine-Month High on Liv-ex

LEGAL MATTERS

• Two Sisters Battle Winery-Brewery Law in Arizona

MARKETING & SALES

• Winemakers stop supplying NRA club in latest of business withdrawals
• ProWein Courts U.S Visitors

MISC

• Winery start-ups, Mega Purple, beer-wine hybrids

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NM: Winery owner, facing collection on Lubbock debt, files for bankruptcy
• NY: Grape Growers To Gather For Viticulture 2013
• TN: Rural counties slow wine bill
• TN: The Wine In Grocery Stores Campaign
• WA: Construction begins on wine center in Prosser
• WA: Red Mountain property owners ready to bring Yakima River water to grapes

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Is Soil Dryness Responsible for Early Grape Ripening in Australia?

EUROPE & THE UK

• Budget cuts force Dijon to sell wine collection

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Tastings in China reveal shared beauties of tea and wine
• Wine making takes root in long-isolated Myanmar

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Why don’t they open the wine I brought?
• The Ten Wives of Ed Burger—A Vineyard Fable
• In Clothing Or Wine, Here Come The Women

OLIVE OIL

• Is olive oil necessary/important to consume?
• Olive Oil Source Expands Club Member Program
• Celebrate the Olive, Sonoma’s Second Largest Crop