NEWS FETCH – FEBRUARY 11, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Calif’s Record Crush: Balance & Early Price Reductions
• Are We In a Global Recession? More than Half Say Yes
• Jan. Restaurant sales up
• Constellation Stock Upped to Outperform

2012 CALIFORNIA CRUSH

• California Sees Record Grape Harvest
• Allied Grape Growers’ Estimate Nails Size Of Crush
• CAWG Statement on 2012 California Crush
• North Coast grape harvest was largest ever
• Napa’s 2012 grape crop sets records
• Mendocino County’s $101 million grape harvest crushes records
• Lodi & Calif Grape harvests set records

MARKETING & SALES

• Draft Wines Gaining Favor
• What Brunello Can Learn From Prosecco
• An inside view of how wine women think and write about wine
• Is the past the future for drinks?

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Honey bee shortage worsens in California’s almond orchards
• 46th annual World Ag Expo opens Tuesday
• New grape variety available by Easter
• Ways To Save On Grape Spraying

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• There Are 181,000 Social Media ‘Gurus,’ ‘Ninjas,’ ‘Masters,’ and ‘Mavens’ on Twitter

MEDIA MATTERS

• Honesty In The Wine-Critic Industry
• A fresh look at food & wine photography
• Wine diplomacy: UK tasters diss wine, then pour it for Obama

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Cult wines, or the triumph of hype
• If restaurants sell wine, they should know how to serve it
• A Raft of Mature Baroli & Barbaresci

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• WIA launches wine fraud initiative
• Horsemeat and Baumard’s Quarts de Chaume
• Liv-ex: Spotlight on Clinet

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Governor pitches water tunnel project to farmers
• Lake County Wine Alliance chooses 2013 Auction venue

OH CANADA!

• Shipping Wine Across Canada

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• AZ: Wine Growers Association leaders elected
• DC: Pharmacies seek grocery-store status to sell beer, wine
• FL: New bill to allow wine trade in kegs, containers
• OR: Bacchus Capital pumps ‘millions’ into winery
• PA: Corbett faces tough sell on liquor plan
• TN: Selling wine in grocery stores should be legal
• TN: Wine in the checkout line? – Themountainpress
• VT: Free wine event helps boost business – WCAX
• WA: Privatization Leads To Controversial Tinkering
• WA: Liquor Control Board Goes To Pot
• WA: Winery rules under scrutiny

HEALTH

• Sulfites Added to Wine — The Reason You Get a Hangover?

EUROPE & THE UK

• Thousand-pound Burgundies in £3m UK government cellar
• Margaux Experiments With Tea, Moon Phases in Winemaking

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Grape yields down on hopes
• OZ: The grapes are plump – let the harvest begin
• OZ: Riverland grape yields lower than expected
• NZ: Sir George hits 50
• OZ: Anti-Kiwi bashing just generalisation

LATIN AMERICA

• With projections of growth, Ruca Malén invests USD 4.4 million