NEWS FETCH – March 19, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Bloomberg Video: Honig, McMillan & Price On The Outlook For Calif Wine
• Big Aussie Pot Grow Hidden UNDER Grape Vines
• Finally Official: Coppola buys Geyser Peak facilities, vineyards
• Crop Prices Surge, Investors & Farmers Vie for Land
• No chance of a glut say NZ winemakers
• Pride and a cheap bottle of wine

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Michael Mondavi Family Estate Sees Robust GrowtH
• Jim Barrett: Wine and the Meaning of Life
• Drone soars over vineyards, but is it legal?
• Winemaker Merry Edwards Among Finalists In Beard Awards
• Wine Institute of California’s Cool Climate Pinot Noir Seminar
• Lee promoted at Quintessential
• Calif Sets Record: Makes 475 Arrests in Decoy Operation
• Livermore Valley’s grande-dame wineries
• SB Barrels Aren’t Just for Wine Anymore

HEALTH

• Benefits Of Red Wine From A Pill? Not Likely
• Red wine better than spirits for heart

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Hospices de Nuits Sales Rise On Short Supply
• Liv-ex: Fine wine and China
• A flight of sommeliers, Tang auction

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Touches All-Time High
• Viña Concha y Toro: A toast to Chile

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• ME: Revisiting the Roads to Prohibition: The Maine Laws
• OR: Lawmakers should not ban self-checkout beer & wine
• PA: Liquor privatization bill clears Pa. House committee
• PA: What’s in New Penn Liquor Liberty Bill?
• TN: Wine in grocery store bill in limbo
• TN: Speaker Says Plan To Press For New Vote On Wine Bill
• TN: Wine -in-grocery advocates will settle for signs of progress, if not new laws
• TX: Internecine Beer Battle

MARKETING & SALES

• Mobile marketing embraced by wine industry
• The secrets of wine importing
• Is Craft Beer the Next Big Thing in Wine?
• Consumers still want $10 wine
• Augustan sales force “backbones” new Premier Beverage Account Development Team
• Stack Wines Expands With Shaw-Ross Deal
• Wine Symposium raises $126000; Barnes named chair for 2014 – Napa Valley

MATTERS OF TASTE

• BC: Rosé smackdown
• The Skinny on Viticulture’s Hippest Grapes
• Will the real Tokay please stand up?
• Winning An Argument In Wine Country

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• New Federal Farm Fuel Tank Regs Start May 10
• There’s Still No Cure For Phylloxera
• Wine Terroir by Microbe

EUROPE & THE UK

• Provence rosé sales increase in the UK
• Vineyard Cellars and Wine Treasury link up for specialist Californian tasting

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Photographer captures complexity of wine