NEWS FETCH – June 19, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Gallo Seizes Upscale Calif Opportunity
• Wine Consumer Advocacy Group Launched
  
• Templeton’s Rotta Winery Sold To Investor Group
• What wine region deserves World Heritage status??

CHINA

• China: Number 6 wine-Producer By 2016
• Fear of Chinese Blockade Fear Speeds Bordeaux Wine Shipments
• China/EU Trade War Dominates Vinexpo
• Yunnan Red, anyone? Chinese wine heads to Europe

CALIFORNIA

• Fresno County crop values fall 3.2%
• BottleRock hit with half-million-dollar lawsuit
• Santa Rosa denies Big Lots’ bid to sell booze
• Second Generation SB Winemaker Analyzes the First
• UC biological control scientist to retire in June

CENTRAL COAST WINE & WATER

• Working to conserve
• Liquid gold in a glass
• In rural North County, all is not well

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Vinexpo retains Beynat for Beijing fair
• Vinexpo highlights
• Work begins on Bordeaux ‘wine city’

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Alcohol—So Yummy It Ought To Be Banned
• Attention all pregnant machine operators

MARKETING & SALES

• There is ALWAYS ROI in Talking to Your Customers
• Cool Tips to Warm Weather Shipping
• Aussie wine leader to carry out US crusade
• The Wine Business is a Hospitality Business
• Twist-off cork shifts the wine paradigm

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SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Canadian Wine industry turns to social media
• Tech-minded wine startups only want Millennials

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Figuring Out Farm Labor Issues Is Full-Time Job
• US provides $9M for migrant farmworker training
• State of business ethics may be lower than you think

DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• PA Senate Liquor Reform Falls Short

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Chateau Ste. Michelle’s 2012 Riesling a record 1.2 million cases

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Bordeaux 2013 – the flowering

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Uruguay: Small Country Makes Big, Flavorful Wines
• What Causes Regional Differences in Wine?
• Minerality in wine? Fuggedaboudit
• Get Over It

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

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• AL: Local Wineries a Growing Presence in state Wine Industry
• AZ: Verde Valley winery explosion
• ID: State seeks help from Masters of Wine
• KY: New courses at Univ Ky to support state’s wineries
• MN: Why Minnesota Can Be Called Wine Country
• NY:Changes Come to Niagara Wine Trail
• OR: New Consumer Wine Festival Coming to Portland
• OR: 2012 Ag Records Fall In Many Counties
• TN: Local vineyard says rain a help to wine

EUROPE & THE UK

• India to lower customs duties on wines, spirits from European Union
• Alcohol volume sales drop 3% in UK off-trade
• Top Honor For Baroness Philippine de Rothschild
• Q&A: Veronique Drouhin-Boss
• Georgia: Racha-Style

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Strong demand spurs wineries to bottle early

LATIN AMERICA

• Brazil aims to wine double exports by 2016
• Aurelio Montes takes up new Wines of Chile position

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Your American Wine Consumer Coalition
• The Pleasure of Discovered Bottles
• Where wine is from: more confusing than you think
• Putting a cork in it

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