NEWS FETCH – FEBRUARY 6, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Calif Denies Licenses to 2 Central Coast Wineries, Investigates 2 Others
• Demographic Re-Think: Echo Boom (forget Millennial & Gen-X)
• U.S. Wine’s Bright Future
• Demeter Issues Reports on Wine, Spirits, Craft Beer
• Financial Crisis Threatens Australian Wine industry

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Low Harvest May Close 200 Beaujolais Properties
• Global wine demand rises despite poor harvests
• China will import less over the next four years
• Good market for Argentine must
• Aussie Wine Production To Plateau

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• PA: Restaurant Chain Praises Privatization Plan
• Anger Over PA Gov’s Call For Privatization

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• New Market Enforcement Branch Laws For Wineries & Wine Grape Buyers
• Big Alcohol Tearing Down California’s Alcohol Regulations
• Winery expansion will bring 400 jobs to Lodi
• Local growers make grape connections
• Frey Reflects on Sonoma Winegrowers Tenure
• Unified Wine & Grape Symposium sees juicy records
• Hahn Family Wines Promotes Industry Veteran Tony Baldini to President
• Women for WineSense celebrates Bubbles, Brix and Buzz II at Gloria Ferrer

HEALTH

• Diet Soda May Be the More Dangerous Alcohol Mixer
• Beverage Industry Responds To Paper On Diet Beverages And Alcohol
• Wine in Moderation: a Review Research
• Red wine and green tea extracts interrupt Alzheimer’s

MARKETING & SALES

• Australian Wine: Rebooting a Brand
• Forget about Social Media for a moment. What’s your mobile strategy?

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Taste like with like? Or not?
• In Pursuit of Ambiguity
• Mistake pays off big time for Italy’s Amarone
• Quit Crucifying Kramer
• Why do some wine lovers insist on exactitude?
• What the Wellington Ukulele Orchestra tells us about terroir

OH CANADA!

• Canadian winery emphasizes terroir
• Okanagan wineries seek greater licence on liquor sales
• Self-retailing Niagara winery businesses merging

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Northwest Farm Credit Returns Nearly $55 Million To Stockholders
• GA: Man sentenced in fatal winery shooting
• MN: Let Minnesotans buy beer, wine on Sundays
• NH: House Subcommittee Considers Local Beer And Wine Bills
• OR: Grape project reporting session scheduled
• TN: Would Sign Supermarket Wine Bill If Passed
• WA: Opens Competition For Specialty Crop Project Funds
• WA: Wine Grape Growers Conference underway

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Schizosaccharomyces! Geshundheit!
• Cornell Engineer Earns Excellence in IPM Award
• Hiring Top-Notch Farm Labor Means Digging Deep

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK to remain top wine importer, despite projected slump
• Calon-Ségur prices still climbing
• Brits to be world’s largest fizz consumers
• Lebanon switches focus from UK to Germany

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Cheap supermarket imports blamed for decline in cask wine

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Hack Something With a Wine Cork
• Butchers and Booze–A Perfect Pairing
• Everything I know about wine I learned from Catholic school – Part II

AMATEUR NEWS RELEASES OF THE DAY

• Sheetz Applauds Governor Tom Corbett For Taking “A Bold Step In The Direction Of Changing The Way Adult Beverages Are Sold In Pennsylvania (See re-write under Privatization subhead.)

PR OVER-KILL: BEER GEARS UP FOR LEGISLATIVE SEASON

These were splashed all over the news release sites today.

• Delaware Beer Distributors Generate $155 Million in Total Economic Impacts
• New York Beer Distributors Generate 7,630 Direct Jobs, $3.5 Billion in Total Economic Impacts
• New Hampshire Beer Distributors Generate 1,028 Direct Jobs, $430 Million in Total Economic Impacts
• Massachusetts Beer Distributors Generate 1,737 Direct Jobs, $896 Million in Total Economic Impacts
• Iowa Beer Distributors Generate 1,364 Direct Jobs, $447 Million in Total Economic Impacts
• Kentucky Beer Distributors Generate 1,521 Direct Jobs, $496 Million in Total Economic Impacts
• Idaho Beer Distributors Generate 1,421 Direct Jobs, $364 Million in Total Economic Impacts
• Ohio Beer Distributors Generate 4,527 Direct Jobs, $1.6 Billion in Total Economic Impacts
• Vermont Beer Distributors Generate 750 Direct Jobs, $215 Million in Total Economic Impacts
• Utah Beer Distributors Generate 721 Direct Jobs, $247 Million in Total Economic Impacts
• Rhode Island Beer Distributors Generate $80 Million in Total Economic Impacts
• Nevada Beer Distributors Generate 1,188 Direct Jobs, $411 Million in Total Economic Impacts
• Texas Beer Distributors Generate 13,581 Direct Jobs, $6.3 Billion in Total Economic Impacts
• Virginia Beer Distributors Generate 3,791 Direct Jobs, $1.5 Billion in Total Economic Impacts
• Louisiana Beer Distributors Generate 2,953 Direct Jobs, $971 Million in Total Economic Impacts