NEWS FETCH – August 12, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Cleavage Creek sold for China exports
• Optimism In Wine Sales Growth Numbers?
• Forecasting Wine’s Future
• Winery Sues Distributor Over Use of Vampire-Related Wine
• González Byass Acquires Chicago’s Vin Divino
• July restaurant sales fall
• $A puts fizz in Australian sparkling wine
• India’s Growing Taste For Wine
• Family Farms Get Bigger

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Smoke Taint Uncertain For 2013 Southern Oregon Harvest
• Napa Season: “Pretty Ideal”
• Wine Vintage: Central United States
• Spanish Rioja region wine exports up 7.74%

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• “Tuscany With Cowboys”: California’s Central Coast
• North Bay wine warehouse arsonist subject of TV show
• Monterey County and its wines
• Stinkwort’s fast growth could threaten Calif wine growers
• Pro Golf in Napa Valley and an Economic Boost

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Consumer group gives the Pa. monopoly an F
• Is this the year for wine shipments in Pennsylvania?
• U.S. Postal Service Alcohol Delivery Idea Criticized By Merchants

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Accolade Wines lifts Hardys’ positioning
• Diageo to offer marketing support to new drinks brands

INVESTING, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Lafite ‘98 outperforming Liv-ex Fine Wine 50

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

LEGAL MATTERS

• The Downside Of Unregistered Trademarks: Having to Disgorge Profits

MARKETING & SALES

• Why Are There So Many Ugly Wine Labels?
• Segmenting the wine market helps us to see more clearly
• The revolution in cheap pinot noir
• Nazi hunters call for Hitler wine ban

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• 10 of the most obnoxious ways we’re forced to participate in social media

MATTERS OF TASTE

• VineSleuth metrics validate expert tasters
• Wine Drinkers Okay With Natural Flavor Additives
• Tasting Notes: Does Anybody Care
• How Accurate are Wine Label Alcohol Levels?
• Martian Wine and Other Futuristic Ideas
• Sweet wine and the twee-grape growth
• Chardonnay mêlée

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Can Extensive Orientation Improve Job Performance?

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Breaking the Code of Silence on Italian Wine

OH CANADA!

• Province reviewing B.C. liquor laws

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• One more sign local wine has made the mainstream

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Tannin and phenolic measurement moves into the cloud
• Special Nevada Seminar Profiles Drought Help

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• The Building Trade Is Booming In Bordeaux

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: South Australia: Valley of vines
• NZ: Doctors see red over wine’s cancer claims

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Red Obsession review: Open the wine, enter the Dragon
• Is France fried? Spain spammed? China wine import stats

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• 12 Good Reasons to Drink Wine
• Wine Waste Finds Sweet Afterlife In Baked Goods
• 10 Things Every Wine Lover Should Know About… Ridge
• Improve that red wine with a blender

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

OLIVE OIL

• Trade Commission’s Olive Oil Report Due Out Monday
• Spain’s Olive Oil Watchdog Reports Increase in Violations

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“Cypress Glen Vineyards fuses surreal pickle essences and a sweaty Cool Whip flavor in their 2000 Pinot Noir.”