NEWS FETCH – June 27, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Major Brands Wins In Court, But Loses Diageo In Missouri
• Lower alcohol wine: a global trend?
• Drought’s Effect on California Vineyards Varies Substantially
• Aussie investors scared of Chinese investment frenzy

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Demand fueling a push to plant more wine grapes in SLO County
• CDFA Announces 2013 Pierce’s Disease Assessment Rate
• Sierra Foothills grower pleased with wine grape crop
• California grape vineyards, orchards vie for water
• Petition for Eagle Peak, Mendocino County, AVA Open for Public Review & Comment
• State destroys grower’s strawberry crop: wrong pesticide
• Mexico, Coachella grapes gain late momentum
• Chilean grapes get chilly reception in California

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Former director of wine investment firm jailed for forgery, embezzlement
• Fine+Rare adds Singapore office
• How wine counterfeiting impacts everyone

MARKETING & SALES

• Why Infographics Must Die
• Battle for younger generation of wine drinkers
• How US Households Are Dealing With Increased Costs of Living
• Coffee Shops Expand Alcohol Activities
• 2013 New Trends in Wine Industry: Labels and Bottles
• Twitter Party: A New Type Of Marketing

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

DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• PA: Senate heads toward floor debate on liquor
• Supermarket Wine Sales Challenge Swedish Alcohol Monopoly

MEDIA MATTERS

• Journalistic principles and wine writing
• Somm: The best wine documentary yet?
• WordPress.com & Blogging
• Top 10 wines in the US press

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Vinexpo 2013, first figures
• Brief thoughts about Vinexpo

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Social networking rivals shopping as most common Internet activity

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Does Terroir Equal Wine Quality or Just Opinion?
• Earthiness in wine is unrelated to the soil

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

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• TTB Publishes Final Rule Modifying Mandatory Label Information for Wine

OH CANADA!

• Nova Scotia wineries toast sales increase
• BC Judge OKs Vineyard work
• Ontario finance minister not ruling out selling alcohol in convenience stores
• ‘Iconic’ ice wine exports will benefit from new standards: Canada

ACADEMIA

• WSU’s Voice of the Vine- Grapevine Virus, Riesling Bound

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Using Microsatellite Markers to Determine Genetic Relatedness of Grape Varieties

EUROPE & THE UK

• European Union takes step back from market-driven farming
• Chinese quench their thirst for French vineyards
• From sharecropper to landowner, an Italian parable

AUSTRALIA

• Winegrape prices best in 4 years
• Red wine grape prices rise but Riverland getting low value
• Winemakers fear competition

LATIN AMERICA

• Chilean growers battle exchange rate, high inputs
• Argentina: In 10 years, the number of wineries exporting to Canada grew by 300%

SOUTH AFRICA

AROUND THE GLOBE

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Counterfeit Food More Widespread Than Suspected
• Cultural aftershocks

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

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Oil Industry Megatrends