NEWS FETCH – August 28, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Viansa Winery Sale Update
• Myth: Millennials are driving fine wine sales
• Wal-Mart Wine Deal Erases Seven Sisters’ Apartheid Legacy
• EU says China guilty of giving illegal aid to solar industry

FIRE & WATER

• Sierra Smoke Taint Concerns
• SLO Supervisors approve emergency Paso groundwater law
• Water Supplies down to the wire in much of state
• Calif. cattlemen scramble to save herds, find feed
• William P. Foley, II named chairman of Fidelity National Environmental Solutions

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Valley Vintners Continues Fight to Prevent Consumer Deception
• Rupert Murdoch Closing on $28.8 Mil LA Winery
• Ancient Peaks Promotes Stewart Cameron to Winemaker
• California Wine Month

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Changyu Pioneer Wine H1 profit down 20%
• Changyu unveils €70m Chateau Changyu Moser XV winery

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Charlie Trotter Files Answer in Wine Fraud Lawsuit
• 1855 to become Héraclès: you couldn’t make it up!
• You Can’t Take It With You: Collector Sells Off Precious Bottles
• Share of trade rises for non-Bordeaux
• Chateau La Conseillante ’08 Rallying

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Famed French wine makers aim to attract US Latinos
• Big Surprises In Imported Wine
• Imitation: Highest form of flattery, lowest form of creativity

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

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Skype Interview Survival Guide (For Interviewers and Interviewees)
• Why You Should be Submitting Your COLA’s Online

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Why big is better (but just up to a point)
• How Useful is the Wine Scoring System?
• Everyone is a critic, and wineries should be listening!
• Pursuit of Pinot in the Russian River Valley
• Schloss Leader: A Business Strategy?
• Decanting aged Cabernet Franc
• The world’s best unoaked Chardonnay?

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Save the Date – ProWein 2014
• Wine show London 2013 postponed to 2014
• Wine Vision organiser announces speaker line-up

MEDIA MATTERS

• BTN Launches New Learning Article Base For Wineries

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Tasting Wine Cultivars by Region
• NY: Kemmeter Wines Opens on Seneca Lake
• VA: Greenhill Winery and Vineyards to open in Middleburg

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• New Biofungicide Offers Control For Botrytis Bunch Rot In Grapes

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Romania is one of the top 15 wine producers in the world
• Moser has Chinese estate named after him

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

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China winery visit: Changyu Moser XV opens in Ningxia

SOUTH AFRICA

• Improved supply chain to promote South African wine

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine : Now that you like it, you can learn it
• Consumer Watchdog Puts Wine Chillers Through Their Paces
• Wine Dogs

• Wine For Dummies [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• Spain Considers Trial Release of Genetically-Modified Olive Flies
• Winds Blow in Bad Break for Crete
• Modified Med Diet May Protect from Diabetes

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“Caliani Vineyards blends pulpy mealy undertones and a psychedelic rosemary flavor in their 2006 White Zinfandel.”