NEWS FETCH – June 14, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Grape Supply Inconsistency Roils Global Wine Trade: OIV
  
• Foley Sees U.S. Growth Heating Up
• Lawsuit set to halt CA Delta Plan, governor’s water export tunnels
• Trotter accused in counterfeit wine sale
• Wines Sales and Jobs Continue Strong Growth
• Farmworkers feel the heat even when they leave the fields
• Farmland Price Compounds Challenges of Young Operators

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Small wineries warn about Napa county lawsuits’ chilling effect
• DTC Forum at Sonoma State
• Constellation’s Fehrnstrom New Wine Institute Chairman
• Napa Vintners Thank Community
• Membership airline begins Bay Area service, eyes Sonoma

HEALTH

• Alcohol abuse is fueling military sexual assault
• Could novel drug target autism and fetal alcohol disorder?
• Fetal alcohol syndrome & autism smay be related
• Alcohol deaths ‘could be avoided’

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• France: more calls for higher taxation on wines

MARKETING & SALES

• Small brands, big impact: why craft beer is top of the hops
• Rebuilding Traffic after the Demise of Amazon Product Ads
• Disruptive Selection: Nature’s Way of Weeding Out the Average Business
• Improving Cava’s image

• A Sense of Place: An Intimate Portrait of the Niebaum-Coppola Winery and the Napa Valley [Sponsored Link]

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Are all unpaid internships illegal?
• Immigrants help U.S. economy, study says

MEDIA MATTERS

• 5 Ways to Maximize the PR Pro-Blogger Relationship
• Summary of the 2013 Wine Bloggers Conference in Penticton, BC
• Wine’s whistle blowers
• Petition against French proposal censor wine bloggers
• France, WTF?!?
• Lo Hai Qu on Winning a Wine Blog Award

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Differences in taste and smell, and their effect on wine tasting
• Gustatory tug-of-war key to whether salty foods taste good
• Watered wines alcohol reduced
• Visiting Wild Horse Valley
• California Rocks
• Anchovies: impossible food-wine pairing?
• A Torrent of Torrontes
• Interview with Edward Lovaas, Head Winemaker, Pindar & Duck Walk

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Bordeaux 2012 hamstrung by ‘insufficient price cuts’
• Les Saint Georges applies for promotion to Grand Cru
• Moët to produce a 2012 vintage

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wineries fear influx of foreign grapes

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina Falls From Its Throne as King of Beef

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Messages in a Bottle: Advice About Advice

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

OLIVE OIL

• Madrid Workshop Defines International Study on Olive Oil Fraud Detection

OKAY, THIS IS A CRAP HEADLINE WITH SOME OKAY NEWS UNDERNEATH
C’mon folks, get a professional who can write! Verbal diarrhea buries WHAT is actually happening, or why someone should care.

• Napa Technology Announces Increase in Number of Food Retailers that Deploy User-Friendly Technology to Boost Wine Sales

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• One-Minute Editor

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