NEWS FETCH – April 18, 2013

TOP NEWS

• NYSLA Ruling Not A Death Knell Online Wine Sales
• Auctioning Truett-Hurst
• Bacchus Capital Finances Madrigal Family Winery
• Massive vintage for Aussie’s Riverina grapegrowers
• Tesco prepares US exit with sale of Fresh & Easy
• Exercise May Protect Brain Against Heavy Drinking
• Central Valley Project trims water allocation
• California bill would target fracking industry’s water use
• All Parties ‘Comfortable’ With Ag Immigration Proposal
• Chase Names Stucker Head of Beverage Industry Group

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Contra Costa County Now Part of Central Coast?
• Napa seeks to quell BottleRock fears
• Calif Zin Maker Moves into Pinot
• Salinas Valley farmers tackle seawater intrusion
• Petaluma’s OFFbeat Brands Hires 3 Sales Execs-Two V.P.s
• Free foie gras with $55 glass of wine skirts duck liver ban

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Given New $50 Price Target at JP Morgan
• Diageo 3Q performance boosted by US market
• Rémy reaps dividend of upmarket shift

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• 18th Century Mosel Wines Go To Auction
• Lynch-Bages 1995 to 29-Month Low of $1,470
• Bordeaux 2012: Mouton releases at €240
• Livex: L-WIN launches new website
• China turning its back on top Bordeaux

MARKETING & SALES

• What The New Generation Wants From A Wine
• Accolade launch low-cal wine brand
• Tasting Room Offers DIY Wine Tasting, No Sommelier Required

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How not to be a wine snob
• Freedom, Expression & Love: A Consideration of Choice in Winemaking
• Wine Spectator moving away from numerical scores?
• Everything is coming up Rosés
• California Cab – It’s Not About the Years, it’s the Character
• French versus Italian Merlot tasting
• Divico: A Brand-New Red Grape Variety

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Epicurious Is Epi-Classy With ‘Insensitive’ Boston Tweets
• Brandon Farley Joins Team VinTank

PACKAGING & PROMOTION

• 5 tips for uncorking the perfect wine label design
• Cruise ships promote wineries
• Trinchero’s Bandit Brand Launches Tetra-Pak
• Budweiser To Intro Bowtie-Shaped Can

EMPLOYMENT

• More bad news for the unemployed
• Recovery leaving long-time job seekers behind

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• DLW13: What’s next for local wine?
• CT: Bill To Allow more wine tastings
• MD: Antietam Highlands Wine Trail Launched in Maryland
• NY: Yorktown winery owner DeChiaro under election-law scrutiny
• OR: Exhibit A of issues that can arise with naming regions
• TX: Future vintners dig in – Fredericksburg

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Wine industry pioneer rues decline of family-owned wineries
• OZ: Wine regions wrapping up harvest
• NZ: Tax could kill cask wine industry

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Algeria Was Once The World’s Largest Wine Exporter