NEWS FETCH – July 25, 2013

TOP NEWS

• 90% Of Burgundy Vineyards May Be Hail-Damaged
• Spanish Firm Reportedly Buys IL Distro; Stags’s Leap AVA Winery Being Shopped
• EU-China solar deal hinges on price as trade war deadline nears
• Napa Crash Course on Counterfeit Wine Protection
• EU/China Trade Dispute Still Threatens Wine Sales
• Advertising Pro Dana Johnson Joins News Fetch/Wine Industry Insight

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Chile, Australia join NZ in bumper wine harvests
• Calif vineyards expect high-alcohol wines from early harvest
• Columbia Valley Winemakers begin countdown
• Napa Valley grapes on fast track
• Great finish expected for Santa Cruz Mountains grapes
• Scorching temperatures mean exceptional year for UK wine

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Posh Napa Valley home assessed at $100 million
• California wine gets back to its roots
• Renegade Winegrape Growers
• The 1970s/1980s Californian wine revolution
• Neighbor arrested after alleged confrontation at Napa vineyard
• Wine paired with words at writers’ yearly gathering
• Spotlight on Sta. Rita Hills and Lompoc Wine Ghetto
• A weekend at Jordan with Las Vegas sommeliers
• Western Australia OKs California table grapes

ALLIED GRAPEGROWERS

• Allied Grape Growers gather for annual meeting
• Allied Grape Growers lays out profitability roadmap

DIRECT SHIPPING, REGULATION

• Help Pass Direct Wine Shipping in Pennsylvania
• Wine trade within Canada still being blocked
• French Alco-Nazis Order Pernod Ricard to pull Facebook campaign

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Pernod Ricard to take India market a peg higher: Pierre Pringuet
• Will Cans Bring Wine Out of the Cellar?

FINANCE, M&A

• A Private Equity Big Shot’s Naked Ambition

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex: Non-Bordeaux break new ground
• 100% Bordeaux and The Unclassifiable
• What’s the point? Chateau Montrose edition
• Margaux Second Wine Pavillon Rouge Down

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

HEALTH

• Drinking Without the Buzz
• Will Red Wine REALLY Kill Your Workout?

MARKETING & SALES

• Big Wine and the search for authenticity
• Many faces of Precept Wine in Seattle
• Dirty, Grimy Wine Marketing

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• When Rankings Lose Their Meaning
• The Fallacy of Terroir
• You can’t be slightly pregnant, but you CAN be slightly corked…
• Can Petite Sirah be the Next Big Thing? Can anything?
• Ronco delle Bettulle, Colli Orientali del Friuli
• What is the world’s most underrated wine ?

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

EUROPE & THE UK

• Cliff Roberson to open London’s first urban winery
• New drinks to mark the royal birth
• Syrian winery defies war to supply wine to European restaurants
• Drowned in Cognac: A beautiful death

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

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Shocking! Polyphenol Extraction With Pulsed Electric Fields
• Discovery may shed light on bee colony collapse disorder

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

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• WA: First director of Washington wine industry embracing foundation work

ACADEMIA

• WSU’s Voice of the Vine- Concord Replant, Native Plants, Wine Auction

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chilean wine shop in Beijing
• Grape board seeks uniform tax for wine across India

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentine wine gains in South Korea

OLIVE OIL

• Aussie Olive oil: A guide to the 2013 vintage
• Olive Oil and Trade Talks
• Native American Olive Oil

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Twinkies (and their clones) pair with sweet wines
• Alsace Wine Region: A Manual for Oenophiles

• Wine For Dummies [Sponsored Link]