NEWS FETCH – March 27, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Duckhorn Trademark Lawsuits: One New, Another Quashed
• Treasury Wine CEO reaffirms quality focus
• Abundant 2013 Harvests Expected South Of The Equator
• What the Calif 4am Bill Really Means to Communities
• Improve entrepreneurship, drink less wine
• Cal River-flow plan threatens farms, opponents say
• Education holds key to China’s wine market
• Soldera & Brunello consortium spar

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Live Winemaker Series 1st one Randall Grahm via spreecast.com
• Albariño has “bright future” in California
• Bordeaux Index opens Los Angeles office
• California water math
• Rutherford Dust Society Elects New Board

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex: 2011 boosts Pavie trade
• Billionaire Koch Makes Fake Wine Claim Into Federal Case

HEALTH

• Road to ‘Drunkorexia’
• Depression Depresses Benefits Of Wine, Exercise
• Recent study suggests red wine extract Resveratrol drowns out hearing loss

MARKETING & SALES

• Your Website as a Tool to Grow Your Mailing List
• Beer Edging Wine Among 21-34 Women (sort of, maybe)
• Michel Chapoutier: “That’s very important if we don’t want our children to be beer drinkers.”
• Fetzer To Intro New Single-Serve PET Packaging
• Zipz launches single-serving PET wine container

MEDIA MATTERS

• News! Bloggers Subsidize Internet!
• Five Reasons Wine Blog Awards Are Important
• Top 10 wines in the US press

MATTERS OF TASTE

• New “Taste Factor” Algorithm Connects Consumers To Wines
• Heimoff: How I come up with ageability recommendations
• Experience, Culture, Age, and Other Factors Influence Sensory Perception
• The new breed of NZ pinot noir
• Petite sirah deserves some love

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MD: Red Heifer Winery springs from family roots
• NC: Plan for 3-ounce alcohol drink falls flat
• NJ: Spring freeze expected to help farming at local winery
• NY: More Finger Lakes Producers Making Sweeter, Richer Riesling
• NY: Long Island Wine Council Utilizes Social Media To Reach Grape Lovers
• OR: Wine growler bill heads to Senate floor
• PA: Privatization Bill Makes History
• WA: Wine Industry Foundation Announces Viticulture Scholarships
• WA: Benton County commissioners approve Red Mountain development plan
• WA: Vessel Wines Opens Big New Facility in Woodinville

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Aerial Imaging Improves Wine Grape Harvest

EUROPE & THE UK

• Domaine Jacques Selosse burgled
• Georgia half-way through Russia’s quality control for wine
• ProWein’s international visitor numbers “rise significantly”
• Italian Merlots: Castello di Ama’s L’Apparita (Chianti Classico, Tuscany)
• Report flags up gaps for Champagne growth

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Can wineries combat plonk in China?
• Chengdu Wine Fair: Kiwis, Changyu, Backstreet Boys & more
• Asia fuels Cognac growth

LATIN AMERICA

• Chilean wine flavors are derived from unique conditions

SOUTH AFRICA

• SA’s wine-bottling plants cut jobs as bulk exports rise

OLIVE OIL

• ‘Fridge test’ appears not to indicate olive oil purity

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Wine
• Custom wine cellars: the new Lamborghini
• Wine Lawyer, Baseball Nut … The Boys Are Back in Town!