NEWS FETCH – FEBRUARY 27, 2013

TOP NEWS

• CalPERS Vineyard Project Derailed By Conservation Deal
• WineGavel Battling Remy Cointreau & Multiple Other Lawsuits
• Flavor, Innovation Drive Adult Beverage Growth
• Constellation Transforms Wine Market With Inside The Box Thinking
• More US wine winning a place on foreign tables
• The curious rise and fall of a wine-exporting juggernaut
• Foley’s NZ Wine company profit plunges
• Billionaire Foley wants more of Marlborough

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Tennessee wine bill clears Senate hurdle
• PA: Fact Check on Liquor Safety & Proliferation
• Why are retailer shipping rights narrowing?
• OZ: Hotels, liquor retailers try to sink wine in supermarkets
• PA: State Stores age like rancid wine
• TN: Grocery wine receives mixed reviews
• Great Poetic Progress in Wine

AG NEWS

• Ag leaders argue for new guest worker program
• Groundwater nitrogen dilemma in California
• Uses and Impacts of Agricultural Statistics
• Large California Fruit Grower Sues UFW
• Protect the land, hug a farmer
• License plate promotes California farms

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• New world markets for Lodi wines
• Diary of a Winetaster reflects on Napa Valley’s beginnings
• California chardonnay with St. Louis ties
• New wine competition created for North Coast

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Crimson Wine Group — Alas, Another Public Wine Company
• Research: Central European Distr and Diageo
• InBev denies ‘watered down’ Budweiser allegations

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex founder suggests Exchange improves transparency
• Fine wine market in ‘recovery mode’
• Liv-ex: Guigal 2009s in demand

HEALTH

• Moderate alcohol consumption associated with a lower risk of diabetes
• UK drinkers underestimating consumption
• Why Wine Causes Headaches (and How to Avoid Them)
• Wine Is a Joy, Not This Year’s Oat Bran

LEGAL MATTERS

• Alcohol Beverage Licenses as Assets in Debt Collection

MARKETING & SALES

• Ads on the Move: How Messaging Has Gone Mobile
• A perfect wine list, what’s yours?

MEDIA MATTERS

• Boozy musings of a former wine blogger
• Long live Parker

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Six Further Thoughts on Premiere Napa Valley
• Biodynamics is Freaking Me Out
• Calif Chardonnay Entering Its Golden Age?
• Not your grandfather’s Israeli wine
• Great wine no longer takes decades to achieve
• UCLA startup VineLust helps cultivate wine preferences
• BTN.com Partners with Int’l Wine & Spirit Competition

OH CANADA!

• BC announces major changes to liquor laws

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• AZ: Glazer’s Thurman To Head Alliance, Smith Takes Reverse Path
• CT: Bill to End Minimum Bottle Price
• NC: Beer adds to winery’s offerings
• UT: ‘Zion Curtains’ In Bars Eyed For Repeal By Lawmakers
• VA: A Tale of Two Lawsuits

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Could UV-Irradiation Replace Sulfur Dioxide in Wines?
• Plant-based polymer stopper soon to be a reality

EUROPE & THE UK

• French Breathe New Life Into Bulgarian Wine
• Olivier Casteja appointed new head of Sauternes and Barsac body

AUSTRALIA

• Smoke not expected to impact grapes
• Wine in supermarkets ‘fits SA lifestyle’
• Winery on Woolies shopping list
• Higher booze tax would cut crime
• Sparkling in Tasmania’s north east

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Imported Wine Sales hit Delhi Excise
• China allowing sale of tiger bone wine
• Wine Beauty TV series to air in China
• Warning for profit-slipping wine companies: impact of imported wine

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The next generation of Sicilian winemakers
• You’re a Vintner? You’re a Gay Vintner? Awesome!
• I like wine (Rap Video)
• Whose estate is it anyway?