NEWS FETCH – April 11, 2013

TOP NEWS

• ShipCompliant: NY Ruling Affects “Three Tier Element”, Not Producer Direct
• Are Advertisers the issue in New York?
• Central Valley fracking project under state investigation
• Argentina 2013 harvest: 20% bigger than 2012
• Taxing Alcohol for Profit and Punishment
• Kurniawan’s Court Date Is Set

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Ridge opts for ingredient labelling
• Sta Rita Hills Vintners Fight Over Terroir-itory
• California’s vineyards getting dry
• New Exec Dir Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Assn
• State fair looking for wine entries
• AgCode buys Meristem Technologies
• Coombsville-—The Road Less Travelled
• Andis Wines appoints Jenae Plasse COO
• New SJV Farm Advisor

CLIMATE CHANGE ANALYSIS & FOLLOW-UP

• Aussies raise questions over wine climate change report
• Wine regions may lose up to 73% of land by 2050
• Veseth: How Climate Change Redraws the Global Wine Map
• Heimoff: Napa doesn’t seem to be warming, despite some predictions
• Calif wine industry ignores climate change warnings
• Aussies work to ensure grape and wine producers will be climate change ready

HEALTH

• Alcohol causes people to eat unhealthy foods
• Fighting alcohol harm: The EU’s strategy under review

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Buying Your Wine from Amazon? Say Hello to Texas
• Oeno Vaults Aims To Facilitate DtC Wine Shipments
• eWinery Solutions Offers Free Webinar Series
• Distributors, Leeches & Rent Seekers in the Wine Biz

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation will double Grupo Modelo output post $4.75bn deal
• Diageo Has Trouble in India
• Constellation: Bright Earnings, Dim Guidance
• Treasury Intros MS Course and Exam Program to Latin America
• Constellation Discusses Q4 2013 Results

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• 2012 First Growths: how low will they go?
• Christie’s China Debut Video Interview
• Liquid Gold: The USA’s Most Costly Wines
• Making Money With Wine Investments
• Fine whine? Billionaire cries foul in vintage sale

MEDIA MATTERS

• In general, tasting notes suck
• Kickstarter funds first Jura wine book

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Analysis: Arizona Law Allowing Wineries and Breweries on Same Premises

MARKETING & SALES

• Wineries Launch Hello Vino Mobile App Programs For Spring
• The good, the bad and the funny of celebrity wines
• WA: JM Cellars Moves Toward Screwcaps on High End Reds
• 4 Elements of a Well Designed Wine Club Brochure
• Top 10 low-calorie wine brands

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Paso Robles Cabernet: a new age
• 1 case, 12 slightly different wines
• Teen non-prodigy turns into stellar winemaker
• An “Interview” with Roger Ebert on Wine Criticism

OH CANADA!

• Ontario Liquor Workers Vote For Strike Action
• Alberta leads country in alcoholic beverage sale growth

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Drink Local Wine, regional wine, and the growth of local
• MD: Maryland hosts Drink Local Wine conference
• MI: 80 Years Ago Michigan Launched the Repeal of Prohibition
• MS: Huge Wine Festival Takes Over Small Town
• NY: St. James winery, Smithtown officials try to iron out differences
• OR: Agritourism Boosts Income For Oregon Farms
• OR: Incentives for Efficient Vineyard Sprayers
• TX: HIll Country Wine Association Grows

WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Groundwater has increasing role in Calif water policy
• Bordeaux estate to turn carbon emissions into toothpaste

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• New Grape Vine Disease Part 2

EUROPE & THE UK

• Phélan Ségur takes vineyard data up a gear
• Cosenza considers Magliocco flagship grape
• Angola is main buyer of Portuguese wine outside European Union

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• C&D Wine suffer 150 million loss as China wine market return to reason

SOUTH AFRICA

• S. Africa Raisin Processors May Struggle to Buy Crop

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The Race of the Rooster: How Chianti earned its famous emblem
• Yes, you can freeze wine for another time
• Wine and the Greatest Story Ever Filmed
• 5 Wine Myths Busted
• These days, a man’s place is definitely in the kitchen

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Polyphenols May Affect Learning and Memory
• New Seal Program Aims to Regain Consumer Confidence