NEWS FETCH – March 29, 2013

TOP NEWS

• A global wine expo opens a door to China for US wines
• Sierra snowpack dry and getting drier
• $100,000+ worth of wine stolen from SF Retailer
• Tesco To Sell Fresh & Easy?
• What the Continuing Resolution Means for Ag
• Fake Wine Defendant blasts Koch lawyers
• French wine to challenge New World on price
• Top Wine Country chef files bankruptcy
• Soaring Bee Deaths Endanger Agriculture

FIRST-WORLD WINE PORN

• Is a $30,000 Bottle of Wine Any Better Than a $10,000 Bottle?

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Brown administration cites low snowpack to tout water plan
• Former Screaming Eagle Co-Owner Closes Deal with Sonoma’s Wind Gap
• Calif’s Ag Leaders To Sound Off
• Constellation gets new digs at Levi Plaza
• Duarte Updates Test Results on Red Blotch Clean Rootstocks
• Cal farmers cut row-crop planting plans

MARKETING & SALES

• New Euro portal to identify importers and distributors
• Read To Avoid Wankerism
• Wine and Disorder
• Bottle weight & quality

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Is it crossing an ethical line for a critic to make wine?
• Aromatic whites, including Albariño, come of age
• For the Love of Barbera
• Taking the Temperature of a Lemberger
• Spitting Wine
• The case for German wine
• Swiss sommelier tops world wine waiter contest

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Burgundy: sustainable development top of the agenda
• Carbon calculator assists in determining carbon footprint

HEALTH

• B4Udrink Uses Latest Science To Estimate BAC

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• World Wine Trade Group rubber stamps labelling treaty protocol
• TTB Issues Ruling re COLAs for Beer

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Consortium Withdraws Restructuring Proposal for CEDC

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex releases its latest 1855 Classification
• Cheval Blanc 1947 Joins Latour on Sale as Prices Recover

OH CANADA!

• Okanagan Crush Pad Honored For Innovation
• Federal funding for dairy, wine and microbrewery sectors

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Pacific Rim expands Wash Ore brands
• ID: Longtime winemaker retires
• IA: Big jump in number of Iowa vineyards
• IN: Winery Opens in Jasper County
• NJ: Don’t Say The fancy Wine’s From New Jersey
• PA: Breweries, beer sellers wary of liberalization
• NY: Lieb Cellars Merges with Premium Wine Group
• OR: Senate approves wine growler bill
• WA: Red Mountain Development Heats Up

EUROPE & THE UK

• Californian-style winery for Gérard Bertrand
• Major port houses set to declare 2011

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: New vineyard offerings in recovering market

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• This is why you shouldn’t drink wine at an NBA game
• Spring cleaning for your wine stash
• Israeli boutique winery branches out to Thailand

OLIVE OIL

• Is the Secret to Olive Oil in Its Scent?
• NY Restaurants to Feature Olive Oils from Around the World