NEWS FETCH – FEBRUARY 15, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Calif Crush 2012 & Bulk Imports
• Constellation shares soar on revised beer deal
• Calif Wine May Not Pair With French Cheese in EU Talks
• Bacchus: Alternative Capital For Tapped Out Wine Makers
• Calif’s record 2012 crop: Behind the numbers
• French wine and spirits exports surge to new all-time high
• Manslaughter Charges In Aussie Winery Worker Deaths
• Oregon pinots set sail for South Korea
• Sequestration challenges food safety, USDA services
• KY: Bill Blocking Groceries from Selling Wine and Liquor Advances
• $500,000 in Aussie wine stolen in truck heist
• Accolade Signs Distro Deal With Southern Wine & Spirits

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Soledad Looking At Paso Robles As Wine Marketing Example
• Justin Vineyards & Winery is expanding
• Where there’s wine, there’s a way
• Paso Robles Vagabonds, Virtuosos, and Visionaries
• Napa Valley Vintners announces new key personnel
• Chappellet Vineyard Appoints Cyril Chappellet Chairman of the Board
• Brassfield Estate Winery & Vineyard Hires Quincy Steele

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Investment kitemark ‘should be global’ says WIA
• Christie’s spring internet-only auction open for bids now
• Healthy January auctions bolster predictions for increase in prices
• Price growth for lesser Petrus

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• If Social Media Can Create Organ Donors, It Can Work for You Too
• Web-Powered Wine

MEDIA MATTERS

• When corporate policies become public fodder
• Forbes writer ‘called out’ about Oregon female winemakers
• Aussie Wine industry magazine closes
• Steve Heimoff doesn’t like Kyle Schlachter?

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Here’s A Challenge: Illustrate “Terroir”
• Matt Kramer answers five questions on wine
• Making 100-Pointers Just For The Love Of It

OH CANADA!

• Craitor wants wine secretariat reinstated – Niagarathisweek.com

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• IN: Hoosier Wine Industry Maturing
• NY: Winery founder to head Sullivan Cornell Cooperative Extension
• OR: AVA Boosts Profile for Southern Oregon
• VA: The past and future vision in up-and-coming Virginia
• WA: Group recommends plan for wine-growing region at Red Mountain

EUROPE & THE UK

• Thierry’s in debt to the tune of £5.5m, administrator reveals
• Former BBC editor to head up IMW
• “Château” wine should mean the same for everyone, say MEPs
• UK: Accolade Sues Kidston over Babycham logo

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Bushfire smoke could taint WA grapes

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Chasing elephants through Thai vineyards
• Horsemeat, bulls–t and wine
• Battle Ground man creates wine cork mosaic of wife

ANOTHER OBESE WANDERING HEADLINE FROM SOUTHERN

Accolade Wines North America Appoints Southern Wine & Spirits of America to Represent its Entire Portfolio in 24 Markets No, I’m not singling them out. It’s just that they keep throwing this offal out there. Perhaps a professional will get hired one day to stop this.