NEWS FETCH – May 29, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Is Aussie Wine About To Get Cheap Again?
• Food retailers shifting to value and premium categories
• In Sonoma wine country, bumpy roads tell tale of fiscal woe
• Liquor Monopoly: Turning Citizens into Criminals
• Wine Trumping Gold as Bullion Investors Lose Faith

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Colby Red: Winemaker’s Teen Son Raises $350,000 For Heart Health
• Firefighters battle in Santa Barbara wine country
• Cabrillo College Revives Wine Program
• Heimoff: Here comes Napa Auction week!
• Wark: Happy Napa Valley Auction Week—Bring Millions
• “Gifts from Heaven!” Auction Napa Valley at work in St. Helena
• Robert Mondavi’s 100th Birthday Celebration
• Don Sebastiani & Sons Names Tom Hawkins CFO and General Manager

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Warning against ChateauOnline (part of 1855 group)
• Sergio Esposito acquires Biondi-Santi library in $5 million purchase
• Panfaids or Penfolds? Wine counterfeiting in China on the rise

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• TTB Issues Voluntary Nutrition Label Regs
• Need To Learn Winemaking Compliance? Fast?

MARKETING & SALES

• Beaujolais Nouveau Tries To Sex Up Sales
• Selling Brazilian Wine In China
• US wine drinkers less focused on varietals
• Activities to Increase Tasting Room Traffic
• 5 Steps to Nail Every Media Interview

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SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Wineries tap into the cloud
• White House Gatecrashers Make Top Twitter Wine List

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Chile: more than just a one-trick pony
• Term Papers: Wine, Women, Song (and more)
• Wines Are NOT HoseMasterized
• Wines of Chile Partners with Guild of Sommeliers

• Maverick Winemakers and the Rebirth of Malbec [Sponsored Link]

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• CO: Food & Wine bookings down in Aspen, up in Snowmas
• WA: Winery activity bill heads to House floor

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Creating a Non-Alcoholic Wine by Osmotic Distillation
• Latest Information On Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Drinking Wine for a Good Cause
• Grahm: Let Me Be Perfectly Frank
• Story of an Historic Vineyard as Told by One of Its Founders
• Champagne trends of 2013: 9. Reinstating rituals

• How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Oil Lawsuits Loom