NEWS FETCH – June 10, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Casella’s Outlook Boosted By Currency Drop
• Aussie Dollar To Fall To 85 US Cents
• In Central Valley – Nation’s Breadbasket – Latinos Stuck In Poverty
• Growers Urged to Take Vocal Stand on Immigration
• Winegrowers facing labor hurdles as harvest season approaches
• 2013 Southern Hemisphere Harvest Report: South Africa
• Majestic pulls Chablis over health fears
• Cava Quietly Surges In U.S.
• Canadian Strike Averted: LCBO settles with union

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• WineDirect Opens New Fulfillment Center in Paso Robles
• Two Napa county winery projects approved
• Sonoma Vintners, growers oppose hotel initiative
• Shannon Ridge Promotes Chris Baker
• Healdsburg teen Colby Groom finds a cause close to his heart
• 11th Annual Petite Sirah Symposium, Registration Open
• A Dirty & Rowdy In Napa Valley

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Nobles Crus wine fund suspended
• Fine-Wine Market “Knocked” By En Primeur Prices

HEALTH

• Nearly a fifth of designated drivers are impaired
• How Bubbly Can Boost Brain Power

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine Blog Awards Winners Announced
• 2014 WBC To Be In Santa Barbara
• Top 10 Things I learned at the Wine Bloggers Conference
• A Reflection on the Value of Wine Blogging

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Do Wine Franchise Laws Impact Wine Price and Consumer Choice?

MARKETING & SALES

• Using Twitter’s Vine to promote wine
• France gets first AOC wine in can
• Why more Americans don’t drink wine
• Chinese Businessmen Keep $10,000 Wines on NYC Restaurant Menu

MATTERS OF TASTE

• A week on (and on and on) the wine trail in California
• Bridlewood Revisited

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

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• AR: Bill passed to Allow Limited Direct Shipping
• ID: Wine industry booming
• WA: Crops schedule for wineries in Yakima Valley

EUROPE & THE UK

• Turkey Protests About More Than Alcohol
• OIV Elects New Director General
• Muscadet producers counting cost of 2012
• EU Proposal to ban imports of red and white blended rosés
• Krug will not release 2012 vintage
• Larsen Cognac changes hands again
• Wildman to import Fattoria dei Barbi
• Iain Muggoch returns to Direct Wines in newly created role

DOWN UNDER

• Chinese buy into prime NZ wine region
• NZ: Receiverships fall but more companies seeking advice
• NZ wine, ag exports seen growing 7% a year to mid-2017

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chinese drinkers looking for less expensive wines

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Vintage fermentation making resurgence
• Geneticists propose biotech crop containment strategy
• Self-fertilizing plants contribute to their own demise

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Azerbaijan becomes member of OIV

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Laura Ness: Wine Event Etiquette 101

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

OLIVE OIL

• U.S. Continues to Dominate World Olive Oil Imports
• Aussie Olive yields down, quality up