NEWS FETCH – August 5, 2013

TOP NEWS

• How prevalent is fake California wine in China?
• Caymus pays $1 million for exceeding wine limit
• Huge Sta. Rita Hills Property Sold For Start-Up Winery
• Climate change scientist: WA, NZ win, Aussies, Calistoga losers
• Latina Marketing Power Shift
• Ag secretary pushes immigration law
• Feds launch CA fracking study
• Oil companies already frack off Calif Coast

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Calming Words From Mayacamas Vineyard’s Unlikely New Owner
• Araujo Winery Acquisition Ups French Stake
• North Bay Staffing firms see surge in demand

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Star chain: Pernod Ricard Armenia forces us into bankruptcy
• Brown-Forman Shareholders Toast Record Year
• AB Inbev grows revenue despite falling volumes

FINANCE, M&A

• Deoleo for sale. The company’ control costs just over € 200 million
• Dreaming Of Owning A Vineyard? Here’s What Your Money Could Buy
• 10 reasons why taking early money from VCs is a worthwhile risk
• Angel investors put $20B a year into startups (infographic)

INVESTING, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• London Vines: another wine investment firm gone?
• L’Evangile 2010 Hits Lowest Level Since Release

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

HEALTH

• Sobering stories of wine, women and units
• Pregnant moms’ high-fat, sugary diets may lead to alcohol, drug abuse
• Grape consumption associated with healthier eating patterns

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• ND: Logistics Shippers and Carrier License Applications Required
• TN: Study: Wine in grocery stores do not cause safety issues

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine Over Beer: Health Benefits The Edge?
• People like to buy wine in duty free shops
• Argentina, Chile, SAfrica: joint promo for S-Hemisphere wine

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Dear brands, it’s you, not Facebook, scaring millennials away
• Tweeting is not revolutionary
• Twitter’s good and bad side

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Bill introduced to redefine full-time employee
• The Advantages of Being Small and Broke in a Small Business
• Success as an independent consultant takes more than expertise

• From Bubbles to Boardrooms: Act 1: Startups Are Such Fun By Michaela Rodeno [Sponsored Link]

MEDIA MATTERS

• The Pulitzer Prize for Wine Reviews

• Write Tightly Or Don’t Write At All [Sponsored Link]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Do You Like Drinking Day-Old Wine?
• Being kind to mediocre wine
• The Anatomy of a Bad Vintage
• Wild Yeast Fermentation: ‘There’s No Such Thing’
• Mike and Jeff, the World Wine Guys
• Marketing foolishness, or ‘Yes, but what does the wine taste like?’
• Identifying Wine Aromas: Nature Not Nurture
• WSET student numbers hit new record

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

OH CANADA!

• Ontario Premier’s Anti-Consumer Wine Stance
• Nova Scotia convenience-store owners want liquor sales

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Good wines made across the continent
• Great Lakes grapes
• AZ: Custom crush operation opens at crucial time
• ID: Palm Desert woman promotes Idaho wines
• OR: Lawmakers boost OSU fermentation science
• OR: Winemaker launches her own brand, tasting room
• TX: Lack Of Participation Delays Texas wine app
• VA: Jefferson, Trump Share Love of Wineries in Virginia

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Fire ants to the rescue! Venom could be a natural fungicide

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Champagne cuts yield for 2013
• Second hail storm ravages Bordeaux
• Norway considers 5% booze tax increase

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Calls for Hunter vineyard protection
• Label fights price drop

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Perfect China acquires South African wine estate Val de Vie

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa: Govt Moves to Stop Alcohol Ads
• Stellenbosch, the great South African wine area

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Raising a glass to Israeli wines in Jerusalem

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Reward is drinking the wine we grow (US)
• (Wine) Diamonds Aren’t Forever
• Beer Labels In Motion
• Rock Wall T-Rocks – Raising our kids on dinosaurs

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

OLIVE OIL

• 10 Ancient Uses of Olive Oil
• Don’t use the extra virgin for cooking
• Flash thermal conditioning of olive pastes before malaxation: innovation for best quality

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“The 2005 Merlot from Chateau Bogart incorporates bashful halibut elements with a raucous brussels sprout aftertaste.”