NEWS FETCH – April 9, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Calif can kiss its vineyards goodbye (Scroll down for global perspectives on newest climate study)
• Koch’s Crusade Against Fake Wine: Money Is The Least Of It
• Christie’s to Be First Foreign Independent Auction House in China
• Top wine M&A players see opportunities
• Privately Funded Wine Research: It’s About Disclosure
• HVS Hong Kong Releases The Greater China Quarterly Newsletter

HEALTH

• Health Advocates Push To Tax And Regulate Responsible Drinkers
• Americans Hold Dangerous Misperceptions About Risks of Heavy Drinking
• A glass of wine a day will not affect a woman’s chance of beating breast cancer
• Fingertip alcohol scanner launches today

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON NEWEST CLIMATE CHANGE STUDY

• Wine Production Seen Shifting From Bordeaux to NZ on Climate (Bloomberg)
  
• Scientists unveil world wine map by 2050 (video map of changes)
• Heat to shift wine industry tradition (some skepticism)
  
• Scientists eye Montana’s wine -producing potential
• Climate change threatens world’s fine wines
• Aussie Wineries on the move as climate change bites
• Climate changes for wine regions could mean hangovers for wildlife

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• PA: Millions Blown in Border Bleed
• ME: New strategy to tap into NH liquor sales bonanza
• Protectionist Law Proposed In New York Would Hit Wine Consumers Hardest

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation: Justice Dept. tentatively OK with brewery deal
• Accolade gains listings for higher tier Australian ranges

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Price Of 2010 Pape Clement Up 45% After 100-Point Rating
• Bordeaux 2012: Gavin Quinney’s weather report

MARKETING & SALES

• How to improve the use of social media in the wine business?
• Vintners debate demand for price hikes
• UK Blossom Hill to be sold in 50cl bottles

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Neal Martin leaves Argentine wines: Who will be appointed as his successor?
• Server says, “Let me take that wine away” and disappears
• Washington Wine: More Than the Sum of Its Parts?
• Alain Ducasse on technology, terroir and tippling
• Loving Wine The Asimov Way

DISTRIBUTOR NEWS

• Southern Appoints Truzzolino SrVP, Sales for Beam
• Deutsch Acquires Eppa SuperFruit Sangria

MEDIA MATTERS

• How to Measure the Success of a Multichannel PR Campaign
• The Best Advice About Working in PR

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• 2013 Wineries Unlimited Conference Draws Crowd
• DLW13 approaches – with some love from Jancis Robinson
• AZ: New law allows sisters to make wine, beer on same land
• NJ: Royal Wine hires Douglas Simon
• NY: New Finger Lakes winery focuses exclusively on Riesling
• PA: Vineyard Terroir Threatened
• WA: CWU’s wine program director heading to France

EUROPE & THE UK

• Margaux trialing “voodoo” biodynamics
• Figeac “won’t change” under Rolland
• Demand for English wine as Rathfinny plants more vines
• Cite des Civilisations du Vins opens US endowment fund

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Spring brings threats of frost, but technology provides vineyard protection
• USDA Opens Applications for Rural Business Relending Program
• Nightmare Issues For California Growers

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina Wine Specialist Vine Connections Branches Into Chile