NEWS FETCH – August 7, 2013

TOP NEWS

• French Wine Production Forecast Up 11% In 2013
• The San Joaquin Valley: Down & Out, Down on The farm
• More $10 Wine Headed to Shelves Thanks to Drop in Aussie Dollar
• EU won’t impose provisional duties on Chinese solar panels
• Hidden Billionaire’s Calif Food Fortune
• Send Drinks to Friends Nationwide with Cheersable

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Harvest looms for Northwest wine grapes
• Early harvest pleases Sacramento area’s wine grape growers
• Hot summer yields vintage year for UK wine

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Valley Vintners Hosting Trade & Media from China
• Call for Wine Expanding to Napa
• Paso groundwater decision put on hold
• Napa County tourism revenue increases
• Temecula Tasting Room Art Heist
• Calif Table Grapes Headed Down Under
• Conserving Calif farmland
• Lake County’s Shannon a success
• Clos du Bois Employs High Tech In N.Coast Harvest
• Hahn’s reinvents Central Coast wine-grape business
• Happy Birthday Russian River Valley!

DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Empire Distributors Eyes Major NC Warehouse Site
• Free the grapes: Over-regulation is souring Canada’s wine industry
• TN: Grocers launch public campaign for wine legislation

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Suntory, Pernod Ricard in talks to buy 15-20% stake in Tilaknagar
• Diageo Launches 31-Million-Case Bottling Center In IL
• Gruppo Campari net sales grew 13% in first half of 2013
• Bargain Booze owner hires Musgrave financial director

FINANCE, M&A

• Wine.com Among Presenters at Pacific Crest Securities 2013 Global Tech Leadership Forum
• GE Capital Facilitates Miller’s Ale House Buy

INVESTING, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Chapel Down offers shareholders new incentive package
• The Value of Wine versus The Cost of Wine
• The further adventures of London Vines’ Barry Gamble
• Ornellaia confirms second London auction

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

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Alcohol content is tricky to label
• Hard Cider Treated Like Beer Becomes Endeavor of Senators: Taxes

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine on tap has connoisseurs clinging to the bottle
• Consumers more willing to pay for social responsibility
• Gallup poll misleads: Beer still far outsells wine
• There’s No Such Thing As “Selling Out” Anymore
• Why UK drink advertisers need the Lionel Richie approach

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Why Digital Marketers Love Foursquare and the New Facebook News Feed Rankings
• Facebook changes News Feed to kill updates from your boring friends
• Winery SEO: Google’s New Local Winery “Carousal”
• Business insurance against cyber attacks may be coming soon
• Localytics overhauls its web and mobile apps analytics platform
• The Accidental Narcissist And The Future Of [Connected] Customer Engagement

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• News Fetch WithOUT Categories
• Top 10 most irritating wine terms
• The Six Essential Wine Words
• Selecting Blog Topics To Serve The Consumer

MATTERS OF TASTE

• It all boils down to Parker, Spectator, Enthusiast & Tanzer
• Thoughts on decanting wines
• Give Them A Wine They Can Feel
• 10 Great California Wines Without Homes

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• DE: Gov signs bill to grow breweries & farm wineries
• NY: Working to Prove That Good Things Come in Small Packages
• WA: From wine grape residue to healthful granola bars
• WA: Ross Andrew wines mentored by some of best
• WA: Walla Walla wineries learn about Hong Kong market

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Excuses For Bubbly: Earth-Friendly Champagne Packaging
• Fighting the Smell of Bad Wine Corks
• Labeltronix Marks 20 Years in SoCal Wine Labeling

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• UC Davis: Medflies are here for good and inexorably spreading
• Scientists create ‘pleasant’ alcoholic drink using spent coffee grounds

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Character and Value: Italian Volcanic Wines
• 20 Questions With Bollinger’s Top Dogs
• Bordeaux Producers Unmoved By Government Aid
• A European Name Game Uncorks a Tempest in a Wine Cask
• Sainsbury’s prices rising at more than twice the rate of Tesco
• UK consumers opt for red wine, finds research
• Austria: A Vineyard High

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: New mining campaign not convincing for Hunter Valley vineyards
• OZ: Farmers invited to make marc
• NZ: Fresh Foley vintage hits the bottles
• OZ: Australian wine industry tackling climate change

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Corruption Currents: From Wine Laundering to Bo’s Mystery Trial

LATIN AMERICA

• Semillón’s place in Patagonia

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Can Wine Appreciation Actually Enrich Your Life?
• New World Atlas of Wine edition to be available as interactive eBook
• The Taster’s Guide to Riesling Wine

• Wine For Dummies [Sponsored Link]

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“The 1996 Bordeaux from Grass Creek Vineyards coalesces fetid nacho midtones with a continental tofu aroma.”