NEWS FETCH – August 14, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Kurniawan: Change Of Lawyer Leads To Delay In Trial
• Would You Drink Franken-Wine To Avert A Vineyard Apocalypse?
• Research Shows Why Restaurants Utilize Local Wines
• French Paradox Confirmed by Another Major Study
• Farm groups rally support for reform of immigration law
• Central Valley farmers win initial skirmish with fish
• Number of Mid-Sized Crop Farms Declining, Family-Owned Farms Steady

HARVEST 2013 BRIEFS

• Harvest starts in Southern Italy
• Catania on the first day of harvest at Gulfi
• SD: Winery Grape Crop Behind Schedule

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Munari winery sold for $4.7M
• Bakersfield grower-packer Sun World is sold
• Ceja Brothers Open Sonoma Brewery
• Napa Valley Vintners Add Record 16 New Members in One Month

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• New report slams 12 US states for restricting access to wines
• Shipping: Confusion Breeds Confused…But Must It?
• Penn wine lovers lament Prohibition-era laws

INVESTING, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• How to make it in the wine business
• Wine investing: will you end up with profits or plonk?
• Some investments come with WineSur’s wineries
• Cote Rotie 2009 Turque Guigal Reaches 4-Month High
• Petit Mouton bucks second wine slump

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine Telesales Tips
• Wine scores are not eternal, but their ads are
• North America Drives Global Cognac Sales In First Half

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Put a fork in ‘big data’ — it’s done
• Drync allows iPhone users to scan and buy wine in seconds!

OH CANADA!

• Canada: Export a wine to import a buzz?
• The Okanagan in pictures

MEDIA MATTERS

• What is a wine publicist?

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How to live Alaska with Forlorn Hope + Dirty + Rowdy
• Sampling, selling and studying wine

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• CT: State Supreme Court overturns bottle bill ruling
• WA: Calif Co Buys Liquor Control Board Warehouse
• WA: Former Ste. Michelle boss keeps pushing forward

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Chemists discover 23 new compounds in red wine
• Grapevine germplasm collections review available for public scrutiny
• Managing food safety risks on the orchard floor

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Champagne’s Solera System
• Prosecco Producer Launches Elderflower Cocktail

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

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Brewery Blames Treasury Wine & Distro For sales plunge

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• India’s Home Grown Future Grand Crus?

LATIN AMERICA

• Innovation at the IX Foro Internacional Vitivinícola
• South America’s First “Winemaker Of The Year”

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Hotel de Paris, Monaco: Inside the World’s Biggest Hotel Wine Cellar

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

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“Nerf Vineyards coalesces poorly-filtered onion elements and a reptillian pheremone finish in their 1993 Merlot.”