NEWS FETCH – April 5, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Champagne Thieves Sentenced, Wine Still Missing
• An Open Letter To The Industry from a Woman Vintner
• Koch’s Bad Trip A Cautionary Tale For Collectors
• China’s Newly Rich Take Lessons in Wine Etiquette
• Tasting wine? Don’t try so hard
• Interview: John Grant, Managing Director, Beringer at Treasury
• Controversy in Bordeaux over Decanter-Shaped Winery
• Scandinavia: The Next Great Wine Region?
• Languedoc promo to capitalize on US Export Success
• Rainy marks start of Calif heat illness prevention program
• Can Kids Go To Jail For Accessing Your Wine Site?

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• SJV farmland prices keep climbing
• Planners approve more wine storage in Napa airport area
• Kokomo Winery Launches 2nd Vintage of Sonoma State Cellars
• Frank Leeds named 2013 Napa Valley Grower of the Year
• Interview: Bo Barrett of Chateau Montelena
• New Napa Valley Winery Launches

MARKETING & SALES

• Low-Alcohol Wine Must Taste Better For Sales To Grow
• Virgin’s new wine parties are absolutely Fabulous
• BC To Fund Food and Wine Awareness in Penticton
• Drop in profits for Direct Wines
• MW trio launch new wine platform
• Plea to the People of France: Drink More Wine!
• Wine suppliers criticise skills of Aussie supermarket buyers
• Richard Siddle: Why the world of wine is getting smaller by the day
• @BarefootWine Cellars: Making Giant Steps in the Community

INVESTING, & AUCTIONS

• Spain Joins Asian Collectors’ Must-Have List
• Hugh Johnson cellar to go under the hammer
• Bans for ex-directors of Fine Wine Vintners
• Liv-ex 100 welcomes in 2010s
• El Bulli Cellar, Petrus Raise $8.8 Million In Hong Kong

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• What You Really Need to Know About Office Drinking

MEDIA MATTERS

• Sleaze: Pay us money, and we’ll give your clients coverage
• Gregutt: what’s your story?
• The marketplace value of Jancis, Galloni, Asimov, McInerney and Matthews

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Really Old Wines: What goes around comes around
• Good Cab Is Easy To Find; Priceworthy Cab Is A Rarer Bird
• Q&A: Jeremy Seysses, Domaine Dujac
• New Thinking in the Brett Debate
• The Most Significant Planting of Zinfandel

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Pennsylvania’s Medieval Wine and Spirit Laws
• Philadelphia’s 15% Drink Tax
• KY Gov Signs Bill to Repeal Ban on Election Day Alcohol Sales
• WV: Earlier Sunday sales of beer and wine dead

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Interest in online wine surges
• Meet Swirl It, A Location-Focused iOS App For Wine Drinking And Discovery

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Expect More Rain To Come With Warmer Climate
• Field Grafting Offers Solution for New York Producers
• Irrigation wastewater may be answer to damaged soils
• Red blotch: the grapevines’ newest threat

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Accolade’s diamond Geyser
• AB InBev Near Final Agreement With U.S. Over Modelo Deal
• Diageo declines to lift United Spirits offer price
• Kenya to sell stake in wine and spirits firm to S.Africa’s Distell

EUROPE & THE UK

• Mont Tauch enters administration
• German wine stocks at all-time low
• Bordeaux 2012: Chateau Raymond Lafon not to release 2012
• Matthieu Kauffmann Resigns As Bollinger’s Chef De Cave
• Rhone Valley ramps up wine tourism strategy

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Strong dollar forces Brown Brothers to turn away from UK
• OZ: Hopes high for 2013 vintage
• OZ: Wine producers warned of festival sca

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Indulge in China’s Latest Export
• Japan’s wine industry has potential to succeed globally

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The truth about sulfites in wine
• Making music with wine glasses
• Of Church Bells And Diversity, Notes On Consumerism
• Jancis takes on American Wine