NEWS FETCH – March 14, 2013

TOP NEWS

• NY Nails Retailer With $50K Fine For Third-Party Web Sales
• Coppola buying Geyser Peak Real Estate?
• Mysterious Wine Order: 115 Bottles To Vatican
• Jackson Family OR Deal Imminent
• Restaurant sales remain pressured
• Women vital to wine business
• No NZ Glut Say Winegrowers
• Postseason glow of the huge Cal grape harvest

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Ownership Changes, New Ventures in CA, OR
• New wineries under construction in Calistoga
• Sonoma Eyes New Regs For Plaza Tasting Rooms
• Rep. Thompson Selects Wine Caucus Co-Chair
• Sculatti steps up to help St. Helena
• Sattui pledges $1 million for Calistoga youth

WATER

• Kings County Declared Calif’s 11th Drought Disaster Area
• Calif to release chapters of plan to restore delta
• Legal Battles Over Calif Water Supplies Set to Escalate
• USDA Declares Three Nevada Counties Drought Disaster Areas
• UN Launches Global Task Force on Drought
• Changes at State Water Resources Control Board

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Beam finds growth by reaching out to a new demographic
• Q&A with Diageo’s global CMO Andy Fennell

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Carruades de Lafite 2008 Advances to Four-Month High on Liv-ex
• Fine wine stock exchange prepares to launch
• Morrisons Cellar reveals UK’s £4.7bn wine gamble

HEALTH

• Glucose metabolism improved more by red wine than by gin

MARKETING & SALES

• 3 Tips to Promoting Booze Health Benefits without a PR Hangover
• Retailer arranges wine displays according to taste profiles
• Saturated French Market Fuels Rhone Export Push
• The Challenge That Cabernet Sauvignon Has Become

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Contagious: Jonah Berger on Why Things Catch On (Virality)
  
• Who Do Social Media Followers Belong to — You, or Your Business?

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Heimoff: Why I don’t give more perfect scores
• Vibes swinging back to California
• The Food/Wine Color Effect
• California wine can be too sweet
• The Poetry of the Wine Review
• Vertical tasting shows variety of wine from year to year
• Institute of Masters of Wine in emerging markets drive

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• California Cash Flows Into Northwest
• NY: Celebrating 40 Years of Long Island Wine
• TX: Rangers wantwine sales at ballpark
• VA: Thomas Jefferson’s Love of Wine Spurred Virginia’s
• WA: Hearing set for grape-growing region at Red Mountain AVA

OH CANADA!

• BC: Winemakers provide significant boost to Canada’s economy

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Lessons in Oxygen Management from Industry Leaders

EUROPE & THE UK

• Tributes Flow For Henri Krug
• Champagne exports 3.4% up by value
• French Furious Over Failure to Define Absinthe
• UK Wine smugglers jailed
• Beam finds growth by reaching out to a new demographic
• Pepe Raventos on leaving Cava and making the new Conca

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentine wines gain ground in the Caribbean and Central America

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• White Smoke – great name for a communion wine
• Blending Brunello: A Way Out Of Porn Flicks
• Don’t Order Calamari in Ohio
  
• Tainted Wine? Trust Your Nose
• Lost in Translation: The Lingo for Tasting Wine

OLIVE OIL

• First Carbon Footprint Calculator for the Olive Industry