NEWS FETCH – April 1, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Restaurant sales, traffic soften in Feb
• Chinese investors have their sights set on Greek vineyards
• 2012 Horrible for global economic vitiviniculture
• Naked Wines shares maiden profit with staff
• Changyu wants Panda to be the new Yellow Tail
• Neighboring Wineries Affect the Local Market Price of Wines
• On Cesar Chavez’s birthday, UFW Struggle Continues

WATER

• Broke California Unveils Fish-Saving Boondoggle
• Carneros Growers push for recycled water storage options
• Criteria for endocrine disruptors such as those in recycled wastewater

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Gov. Perry to California: Bring your wineries to Texas
• Beware of bill to extend bars’ serving hours
• Napa group objects to piecemeal Copia changes
• Moraga resident planning winery for town center

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Past liquor reform efforts hold lessons for Corbett
• PA: Union Fights to Hold on to Liquor Monopoly

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Willamette Valley Vineyards Posts 2012

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Be careful when changing appellation boundaries
• Wine Compliance Legislative Updates
• More red tape (but maybe not that much more)

MEDIA MATTERS

• An exchange of letters with Dan Jago of Tesco
• Beer scribes re-constitute North American Beer Writers Guild

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Washington Wines Pack High Alcohol Wallop, Little Else
• Granoff’s Pivotal Wine Moment: Montelena Cabernet
• Experience, Culture, Age, and Other Factors Influence Sensory Perception
• The Importance of “Tastes Good”
• Chile: Land of Flesh and Honey
• Hands-on winemaker gets high-quality results
• Ridge’s Winemaking Philosophy with David Gates
• Meet Paul Hobbs 2.0

WINE PORN

• World’s first €1million bottle of wine goes on sale today

MARKETING & SALES

• The Chinese wine market is like Wi-Fi, TomTom & a precocious teenager

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• How Will You Measure Your Life?

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• A nice lineup for DLW13 – in less than 2 weeks
• NJ: Is a Local Winery a Farm?
• NY: Why Does Long Island Produce So Much Chardonnay and Merlot?
• VA: A toast to boxed Virginia wine
• WA: Hover Replaces Newhouse as State’s Top Ag Official
• WA: Times changing at Red Mountain
• WA: Wine-growing area expects more growth
• WA: Record year for grape growers

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Multiple Uses of Wine Pomace for Financial Health
• Conserving Water with Vineyard Sensors
• Water status afflicts grape quality and wine phenolic composition

EUROPE & THE UK

• Winemaker Fined Over Charcoal Cheating
• Calls For Bordeaux to Slash Prices
• Chablis exports to UK grew last year

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Man threatens to shoot winery staff
• NZ: 2013 potentially best in 30 years
• OZ: Pride of the West

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• The Chinese in Bordeaux

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Grape Goddesses: Women in Wine
• NRA and Wine Mix Things Up in NYC

OLIVE OIL

• Spanish olive oil sector sink but continues to conquer emerging markets
• Everything you need to know on bitter in extra virgin
• Olio Capitale 2013 welcomes 10,500 visitors