NEWS FETCH – May 15, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Truett-Hurst IPO Struggles With Wary Investors, Pricing, Delays
• The CDC Goes To War Against Wine
• IRI: Successful Brands Must Fulfill “Good for You” Promise
• Biggest ever crop for SAfrica

WINERY, VINEYARD TRANSACTIONS

• Bacchus Invests in Pacific NW
• OR Winery’s 400-acre land grab protects turf
• Precept Wine buys Yamhela vineyard in Oregon
• Three Bordeaux estates bought by Chinese

LOWER DUI ALCOHOL LEVELS?

• YES – NTSB Endorses Lower Legal Alcohol Limit for Drivers
• YES – Drunk Driving Standards Need Toughening Says Alcohol Justice
• MAYBE: MADD Equivocal On Lower Limit for Drunk Driving
• NO: ?
• MIA: : Wine Industry

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Reclamation cuts water allocation for Friant Division
• Take Advantage of Calif’s Sweepstakes and Contests Laws
• Calif Bill would study ag water storage
• Sonoma State’s Online Wine Biz Classes Have International Reach
• Allen Wine Group Appoints Manager Zack Honeycutt

DIRECT SHIPPING, PRIVATIZATION & NEO-PROHIBITION

• PA senator sees support to privatize wine , liquor
• A Brutal Takedown of Anti-Alcohol Minions
• Anti-Privatization Study Dismantled
• World Market Wine Deal Nixed By 1939 WI law

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Arranges Financing for Beer Acquisition
• Treasury Up As Aussie Dollar Falls
• Willamette Valley Vineyards Posts Profit for Q1 2013
• Buy Diageo or SABMiller?
• Diageo United Spirits Bid Fails at 0.4% Offer Acceptance
• Pernod Ricard SA Receives Neutral Rating from Nomura (RI)

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Johnson auction nets £88,000
• Wine Forger’s Handbook warns of dangers of fake wines

HEALTH

• The Effect of Red Wine Consumption on Sperm Performance

MARKETING & SALES

• New Digital Influencers: The Coming Youthquake
• Wineries Try New Plant-Based Packaging

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Modern Etiquette: When a colleague is abusing alcohol

MEDIA MATTERS

• In defense of wine tasting notes
• Is Wine Tasting Bullshit? No.
• How Wine Criticism Is Changing
• Wine Bloggers Set to Run for the Border

MATTERS OF TASTE

• What can a wine teacher learn from her students?
• Brett, the spoiler, gets a reprieve
• The Little Spanish Grape That Could

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY: Lisa Donneson, Owner, Bouke and Bouquet Wines

EUROPE & THE UK

• French Wine Sales Fall
• Turkey’s PM plans crackdown on alcohol
• Proposed French wine tax baits chardonnay uprising
• New map of the Douro offered by Christie’s
• Pfister family helping to put Alsace’s Bas-Rhin on the map

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Hardys Celebrates 160th Anniversary

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentine wine industry strives to expand internationally

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa: Old World, New World, Or In Between?

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Trying to make sense of crazy wine markups
• What Software Coding and Great Wine Have in Common