NEWS FETCH – May 10, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Lawsuits Put Wine Country Fracking Leases In Limbo
• Restaurant sales hold steady in April
• Women’s Purchasing Power Influences Wine Trends
• Draft of Senate’s 2013 Farm Bill Released
• Senate Begins Markup of Immigration Reform Legislation
• Naked Wines’ customers save vandal-struck British winemaker
• Languedoc Players Expand Portfolios As U.S. Growth Remains Solid

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Producers Skeptical About Warming
• Sommeliers buy Evening Land vines in Santa Rita Hills
• Naked Wines Finds A Base In Napa

LEGAL MATTERS

• Copyright law: When the calf has only four legs
• Showcase on Wine Law in Student Work

MARKETING & SALES

• Fair Trade Comes to Wine
• Is ‘Mandela wine’ exploitive?
• Idiosyncratic Wine List At Top U.S. Restaurant

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Tesco Launches New Social Commerce Wine Site
• Does your brand really need an app?
• eWinery Solutions integrates VinSuite with VINx2

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Beware the Blind Box Ad
• What successful entrepreneurs know that the rest of us don’t

MEDIA MATTERS

• Can you trust wine reviews? Survey says no
• Content Marketing for wine blogs just upped the ante

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Aussies release sparkling chardonnay
• Lambrusco has outgrown the discotheque
• When you close down Le Cirque…

OH CANADA!

• BC: Election and the Wine/Liquor Industry

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• FL:Gov. Rick Scott may allow wine on tap
• NY: Tourism Summit Held

EUROPE & THE UK

• Sir Alex Ferguson looking to buy French vineyard

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Experts oppose subdivision in wine-growing area

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chateau Hansen in China: Paumard pursues ‘Grand Cru style’

LATIN AMERICA

• A Quirky Look At Uruguay

SOUTH AFRICA

• VinPro and Wine Cellars SA to merge

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Book Review: Vertical by Rex Pickett
• Many Different Shades of Rosé Wine
• Drinkin’ in the Rain

OLIVE OIL

• Olive oil assays may help assure authenticity
• Judge Orders Kangadis to Recall or Relabel Capatriti Products

BLAH BLAH BORING – WAY TOO WORDY

• Southern Wine & Spirits of Indiana Appoints Jeff Doty as Vice President, General Sales Manager, Prestige Division
• Castle Brands Inc. Announces Appointment Of Sergio Zyman To Board of Directors

AND A LITTLE EDITING …

• Doty New VP Gen Sales Mgr at Southern/Indiana/Prestige
• Castle BrandsAppoints Zyman To Board