NEWS FETCH – September 11, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Fresh & Easy sold, 50 stores to close
• Sam Adams Creator Becomes Billionaire Amid Craft Beer Craze
• Mexico’s Wine & Water Woes
• San Joaquin County To Order Halt On Some Winery Events

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY – Scroll to bottom for video.

• Napa Valley enjoys ‘ideal’ harvest conditions
• Lodi Harvest: Early, Big and Good
• Turrentine Harvest Update
• Record Tasmanian grape harvest maintains quality
• Okanagan wineries hope warm summer produces bountiful grape harvest
• Grape harvest season begins at Niagara wineries
• Bud Break In Australia

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Madera County correctional officers work to build a winery
• Growing Pinot In Malibu With Emilio Estevez
• BottleRock countersues bus company
• Coalition to test groundwater on Central Coast
• Rim Fire continues to grow

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Nouveau World, Finbow wine fraudster imprisoned for seven years
• Patagonia winery sells small plots to make “the dream of owning a wine” come true
• Wine fakes didn’t begin or end with Rudy Kurniawan
• Montrose ’09 at 4-Month Low, Butl Beats Liv-Ex 50

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Vin65 Adds Hardware To Their Mobile POS
• New apps let shoppers scan wine and spirits to order online for less

MEDIA & BOOKS

• Maybe Steve Heimoff was right (And Maybe I have lost my mind)
• The Three Most Important Wine Books You Need Now
• The Amazon e-book version of the Cheap Wine Book

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Embracing Virginia’s Lesser Known Grapes and Viticulture Diversity
• Bring on the bubbly
• Comeback for fizzy Italian wines
• 120+ Most Common Wine Descriptions (Infographic)
• Pointing The Finger At Premox: What’s The Cause?

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

HEALTH

• AURA Breathalyzer: Precision Technology Meets High Fashion

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ‘Nobody Does It Better than Drinktec’: 2013 show director claims

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• IL: Purdue debuts website series on Ind. grapes, wines
• MI: Wineries thrive in the Upper Peninsula
• OR: Hood River: Oregon’s wild west wine country takes center stage
• TX: Grower Field Day
• WA: Hamilton Cellars gives $100K to Wine Science Center

EUROPE & THE UK

• Languedoc-Roussillon “like the American Dream”
• Russia, unhappy with Moldova’s EU drive, bans its wine

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Barossa’s Powell Plans Wine Venture With Son Following Torbreck

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Coravin and the Future of Wine-by-the-Glass
• When whites are too cold and reds are too warm
• How much wine comes from one vine?

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

OLIVE OIL

• Greece Turns Away Cretan Olive Oil Producers Seeking Aid
• Bill to Create California Olive Oil Commission Clears Senate

CRAFT BEER & SPIRITS

• Paso’s Firestone Walker to open pilot brewery in Los Angeles

JUST CAN’T MAKE STUFF LIKE THIS UP

• Snake preserved in wine bites woman
• OR winemaker takes the cat pee – and the cat – out of NZ Sauv Blanc

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“A fetid squid flavor and sultry urine undertones are united in the 1997 Chenin Blanc from Neverro Vineyards.”

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