NEWS FETCH – May 9, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Most Shopper Sentiment Rebounding – But Not Millennials
• Pillar Of California Grape Industry Dies
• USDA declares SLO County agriculture disaster area
• Almost 1/3 Of Bee Colonies Died This Past Winter
• Constellation Mulls Share Buyback, First-Ever Dividend
• More of the Same Wasteful Farm Bill Spending
• Ag immigration provisions likely to avoid controversy
• Police in Shanghai destroy over 3,000 bottles of counterfeit wine
• Another NZ Estate in receivership
• Farmer Exemption in Dodd-Frank Legislation
• An Italian Giant Passes

DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• MO: House Passes Sneaky Franchise Protection Law
  
• PA: Voters don’t view liquor privatization as top issue

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Growers Warned Over Cab Sauv Dominance
• Winemakin’ Mommas
• Rare Grapes & Quality Calif Winemakers
• Meet Women for WineSense’s Industry Experts at Chimney Rock Winery
• Keith Patterson Wine,Vit Endowment Established at Cal Poly
• Court date set for appeal on winery ordinance
• More On SJ Valley Ag Activist Bob McInturf
• California Honors Historic Vines
• Industrial Vineyards as Chemical Warfare

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Chateau Angelus 2008 Falls to Two-Month Low of $2,500 on Liv-Ex
• Tracing Bordeaux’s Boom
• Top Burgundy Winemakers Will Testify Against Alleged Counterfeiter

HEALTH

• Middle class wine drinkers are worst abusers

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine tasting is BS
• The Wine Snob: an endangered species?
• Sommeliers Open Their Own Restaurants
• Rosé rising
• Putting the Variety in Varietals
• Aussies raise a glass to alternative wine varieties
• Vivier On Patience, Terroir & Vine Age

MEDIA MATTERS

• Now He Likes The 100-Point System
• Top 10 wines in the US press

OH CANADA!

• BC Liquor Licensing Boss Leaving LCLB

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Regional Identity in Specialization
• AZ: Why Arizona Wine?
• NY: Sheldrake Point’s Madill Joins Team at Red Newt Cellars Too
• NY: Wine trails part of state tourism plan
• NY: Everybody’s Talkin’ About Finger Lakes Wine
• WA: Spokane team to design, construct Wine Science Center
• WA: Free IPM Supplies

ACADEMIA

• UC Davis, LEEDing the way to a brighter future

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Online Tool Calculates Benefits Of Irrigation Upgrade
• Wine barrel packaging reinvented

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Vineyard celebrates 150 years since first planting

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Burgundy moves its Asia office from Singapore to Hong Kong

LATIN AMERICA

• Ranking Argentine exports by variety

SOUTH AFRICA

• Extreme Wine South Africa: VinPro Information Day 2014

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Nigeria’s thirst for Champagne explodes (anyone hurt in the blast?)

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The bottomless barrel of wine education

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Oil Assays May Help Assure Authenticity