NEWS FETCH – June 20, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Truett-Hurst Insiders Bail Out IPO, Trading Set To Begin
• Fed Facts: What Does the End of QE Mean for Wine?
• GPS tracks down man accused of stealing $500K in wine
• O’Jays Rap Diageo For The Love Of Money
• Members of Congress meet with Interior Secretary over twin tunnels plan

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Farmworker housing centers stressed by increased usage
• A Life in Wine: Stu and Charles Smith, Smith-Madrone
• K-J Interviews: Tony Viramontes, VP Director of North Coast Vineyards
• Monterey County breaks fruit, vegetable record

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Time to sell Treasury Wine Estates shares?
• Remy Cointreau names finance chief as new CEO
• The Best Small Cap Liquor or Wine Stock? ROX, WVVI & TQLA

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Maureen Downey’s 12 Favorite Wine Fakes
• Chateau Lagrange: Bordeaux’s “Unsung Hero”
• For wine investors, it’s hard work to drink in success
• Latour 2006 Rises to 7-Month High on Liv-Ex

FINANCE

• BrewDog turns to drinkers to help fund growth

HEALTH

• Wine Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Cancer

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Nutrition labels and what the wine business doesn’t understand

LEGAL MATTERS

MARKETING & SALES

• New association for digital wine start-ups
• Tesco ramps up premium spirits offering in affluent stores
• Sales: Might Be Too Much To Ask
• Sales & Gossip
• When Wine and Spirits Get Along

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

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Forty Hours is Full Time Act gains bipartisan support
• E-Verify National ID System Threatens Americans’ Privacy
• Are jobless recoveries the new norm?

MEDIA MATTERS

• Top 10 wines in the US press

MATTERS OF TASTE

• 5 interesting philosophical wine lover questions
• Fumé Blanc in Washington an artifact of history
• Hubert de Bouard launches ‘easy-drinking’ Bordeaux wine range

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

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY: In Death, a Finger Lakes Grower’s Impact, Achievements are Made Clear

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Honey Bee Sperm Bank Soon To Open At Washington State
• Pierre Galet, Father of Modern Ampelography, An Interview
• Food Dialogues: Transparency and GMOs
• Great plant mystery uncovered

EUROPE & THE UK

• ‘Snowball effect’ sees English wines shake off unfavorable reputation
• Nouveau World Wines/ Finbow Wines Lawsuit
• Chinese face suspicion in French wine world
• Bordeaux rosé growing in quality

DOWN UNDER

• Wine producer takes a hit

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Are Chinese Wine Producers Trying To Sell Snow to Eskimos?

LATIN AMERICA

• Exports of bottled Argentine wine up 5%

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• What a grocery store without honey bees looks like
• Cork Dork Laments, ‘Why Didn’t I Think Of It First?’
• Top Wine Movies Worth Watching
• Wine, Corks And Cars
• 10 Things Every Wine Lover Should Know About Chateau Lagrange

• Nose: A Novel by James Conaway [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• The ‘Peroxide Value’ of Olive Oil
• What Makes a ‘DOP’ Olive Oil Different?