NEWS FETCH – March 6, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Trinchero Revamps Sutter Home Brand
• Italian vineyard may hold clues in Eni bribery probe
• Senator urges USDA to nix wine-tasting ‘getaways’ amid sequester
• Farmers watch to gauge impact of sequestration
• Williams Selyem 9-L bottle sells for $205,000
• How Wine Criticism Is Changing
• Wineries Experiment With Crowd Sourcing

HEALTH

• Study investigates whether red wine can help starve off bowel cancer
• Red Wine Drinkers Digest Meals Better
• The science behind ‘beer goggles’ explained
• Scientific Review of Mediterranean Diet Study
• Canadians Drink More Than 50% Above Global Average
• Red Wine stains more than coffee after teeth whitening

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Bank thrives on challenge of wine industry
• Fresno State U – Grapes of Worth
• Sonoma County Winegrowers Name New Pres
• Wine is family affair for Murphys
• Spellitich Importing from Global Markets to Napa Valley
• Hess Collection Names Jeanne Jesse NCentral Regional Sales Mgr
• Regulations, dry spell squeeze water supply
• Container Co to bring hundreds of jobs to Kingsburg

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Brown-Forman Q3 Net Up 18%
• Big UK companies slow to promote women, but Diageo plc an exception
• Treasury Exec Says: No bulk wine to Coles and Woolworths
• WFA appoints Pernod Ricard CMO as president

OH CANADA!

• Canadian Wine and Grape Industry Contributes $6.8 Billion in Economic Impact
• NS wine industry worth almost $200 million
• LCBO invites customers on a road trip across the golden state with ‘California …
• LCBO puts cork in wine club orders after privacy ruling
• Industry Economics, Wine Tasting Rules, Privacy

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Fine Wine: More Palatable Than Rollercoaster Stocks?

MARKETING & SALES

• Portuguese growth sparks consumer focus
• Wines of Argentina’s urban-style consumer events sell out
• NC: Heavy drinking at wine festivals leaves bad taste
• The dog ate my ticket

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Wine People
• Be careful with the voluntary worker classification settlement program
• How To Get A Job In The Beverage Industry (VIDEO)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Restraint reemerges from Australian wines
• Wine Should Be Dynamic
• Calif makes best New World Chard
• Parsing the debate over natural wines
• On The Wine-ification of Beer
• Wine: Just Enjoy It
• Cal-Ital wines: the new trend with a long history
• La Clarine builds strong wines with a minimalist approach

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NM: New winery planned for North Valley raises neighborhood concerns
• NY: Red Hook Winery Makes a Triumphant Return
• OR: Providing quality health care to seasonal vineyard workers
• PA: Lawmakers express sour grapes over LCB in-house label
• TN: Key vote for wine bill today

ACADEMIA

• The Latest in Wine and Grape Research

EUROPE & THE UK

• ProWein 2013- Top Tips for US Visitors
• New top Chianti Classico category announced
• Pesticidegate Raises Concerns Over French Vineyards
• Cobevco fills its 1.5 billionth bottle
• Wickham Vineyard back in business
• Eurasian winery follows the old ways
• Russia May Lift Georgian Wine Import Ban by Spring

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Mixed feelings over wine industry vision
• OZ: Winemaker Anna Hooper is our top rural woman

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chinese wine needs core competitiveness
• Qingtao to be the base of China international alcohol import and export trade

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• A little wine humor courtesy of Bob Johnson
• Wine Without Pretense: Know your bubbly
• Illuminating the Beauty of Napa Valley
• Bill Fuller, Oregon Wine Pioneer
• Wine Country Porn from Napa Valley

OLIVE OIL

• Global shortage of extra virgin olive oil