NEWS FETCH – March 25, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Restaurant sales up as tax refunds arrive
• Calif buying spree for vineyards, wineries
• Koch in the dock again
• Diageo’s Paul Walsh cracks China
• Treasury Wine opening wine bars in China
• The great Aussie wine hei$t
• How to Have Others Pay for Customer Acquisition

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Cal Poly Mourns Wine Professor
• Soil dry but rainfall normal at Napa Valley vineyards
• Raising A Glass To Jim Barrett
• Livermore Buds Bloom Early
• Gutsyy wine label born from diagnosis of MS

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo In Talks To Raise Stake In China Drinks Company

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Latour Releases Older Wines—Is Anyone Buying?
• Buying The 2010 Bordeaux: Some Hints
• Bargain Burgundies Lurk in Region’s ’Outer Boroughs’
• Wine : An alternative investment you can experience first hand

LEGAL MATTERS

• TROs & Preliminary Injunctions: Wine Advocate v Galloni
• Soldera to Parker to Galloni: Comets, Meteors and other Eclipses of 2013

MARKETING & SALES

• David Trone On Building a National Retail Chain
• Don’t Geo-Fence Me In
• Nielsen Now Tracks ‘Basically Anything You Buy’
• Wine, Drilling, Interior Secretaries And The National Parks

MEDIA MATTERS

• Learning About Writing About Wine: A Shifting Target
• Swill Producers, Category Killers and Fellatio
• Crop loads, Chinese wine and a student wine club

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Boony Doon and Skinnygirl, the strangest of wine bedfellows
• Grape Phenolic Maturity & How It Influences Wine Quality

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MA: Rep’s pass at wine law just how he Drew it up
• NY: Sommeliers could boost prestige to Finger Lakes wine biz
• NY: New ‘Weird’ Winery Boosted
• PA: Supermarkets look forward to selling wine

WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Wines and Climate Change

EUROPE & THE UK

• Accolade to launch Geyser Peak in UK
• Israeli producers fight EU pressure
• Cava exports at record high in 2012
• Competition ‘intense’ for UK government cellar wines
• Croatia to get first museum of viticulture and wine

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: China wine market soars
• OZ: The ice wine cometh

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China as a Vast Wine Market

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The history of Bordeaux en primeur
• Where Napa Valley began