NEWS FETCH – July 8, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Treasury Wine signs deal with Marriott hotels
• Argiano Acquitted in Brunello Wine Scandal
• Napa Planners Okay 30,000-gal winery on Silverado Trail
• California Employers Cautioned As Intense Heat Wave Continues
• “World’s Best” Wine Country Hotel List Ignores U.S.
• The Two-buck Chuck gold medal fallout
• CEO: Wine.com “is doing fine”

GLOBAL GRAPE SUPPLY

• NCoast scrambling to make room for upcoming harvest
• Dry, warm winter has Napa growers predicting early harvest
• Umpqua Valley vines 3 weeks ahead of normal
• Aussie 2013 crush: production potential is still high
• French Wine Production Seen Rising 13% From Lowest in 40 Years
• France may harvest bigger crop this year

NAPA NEWS

• Fate of Wappo suit could be decided this month
• Napa Valley succession in good hands
• Napa City Winery lease would transform Opera House
• Wine groups endorse ‘best practices’ list for new projects
• Napa Valley Wine Lounge Opens at America’s Cup Race Park
• BottleRock debt tops $2 million
• Man arrested on suspicion of breaking into Wine Train facility
• Warehouse worker arrested on suspicion of stealing wine

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Assessing the vineyard impact of the recent heat wave
• Wine business complex for Atascadero
• An all – encompassing wine scene in Carmel
• California beer drinkers fall short

DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Goliath Pounds David: Violating Exclusivity Expensive In Nev
• PA Liquor privatization not dead, lawmakers say

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Grape prices hit Constellation profits
• Diageo Buys More USL

FINANCE, M&A

• UK’s Chapel Down secures £4.3m in equity funding
• Portugal’s Sogrape sells Quinta da Boavista

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Sotheby’s puts GBP1m wine up for auction in last sale of the season
• Liv-ex: Standard setters
• Christie’s Auction Stars U.S. Wines
• Classic Car Prices Accelerate While Fine Wine Stalls
• Pétrus and Vega Sicilia close Sotheby’s season

• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market [Sponsored Link]

HEALTH

• Study finds beer can boost heart health

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Can an Advocacy Group for Wine Lovers Make a Difference?
• Wine Consumers’ 1776 Moment

MARKETING & SALES

• The U.S. Wine Market In Numbers
• Wine Makers Marketing To A Younger Generation
• Marketing: the medium is the message

• Wine Brands: Success Strategies for New Markets, New Consumers and New Trends [Sponsored Link]

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Winegrape Conference Attracts Huge Crowd
• World Bulk Wine Exhibition 2013
• New trade show tabled for Bordeaux

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Could you land a job in 140 seconds (or 6 words)?
• What I’ve learned at WineDirect
• Trevino Promoted to Dir. Winemaking At Purple Wine/Sonoma Wine Cos

MEDIA MATTERS

• Potty-Mouth Headlines
• Conaway: Back to Wine Country, warts and all
• Cheap wine book update: 1 chapter to go

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Actual Facts Behind the Rise of Natural Wine
• Will Lyons on Wine: Tasting Notes That Strike a Chord
• Balanced or Powerful
• Barrel Fermenting White Wine: It’s Not Just About Oak
• Bottle & Shape size matters for Champagne Taste
• Santa Cruz Mountains – Terroir from Dr. Mark Greenspan
• Bonarda, Argentina’s second red variety

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• VA: Celebrating American Independence with A Renewed Partnership in Wine
• VA: Wine Is Key to Celebration
• VA: In the Old Dominion, a New Terroir
• WA: Potato chip mogul now a successful Walla Walla Valley wine producer

WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• EPA’s abandoned Wyoming fracking study one retreat of many
• Insecticide causes changes in honeybee genes, research finds

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Mapping The Way To The Next Generation Of Grapes
• Chemicals in the vineyard; the Angiolino Maule edition

• Understanding Wine Technology, 3rd Edition [Sponsored Link]

EUROPE & THE UK

• Palermo ~ The Persistence of Memory
• EU and China close in on solar panel deal
• UK hailed as key market in global wine business
• UK’s new farm policy for 2014-2020
• Prosecco Police go Undercover in Italy
• London’s wine scene: a tale of two cities

• Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure [Sponsored Link]

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Daughters take up family business reins

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Indian Wine Market Growing At Record Pace
• Fear of Fakes High For Chinese Buyers

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The most dangerous ways to open wine
• “Gracianna,” inspired by true events
• The Perfect Wine

• 1001 Wines You Must Taste Before You Die [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• Greeks Seek Aid for Olive Crop ‘Disaster’

WTF WANDERING HEADLINE OF THE DAY

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