NEWS FETCH – September 18, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Harvest Time & Grape Growers’ Liens – Custom Crushers Beware
• Internet Gives Wine Lovers Fairer Prices
• Calif Wine Industry Leadership: The Headless Horseman

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

• Lodi harvest features tonnage surprise
• Mid-Calif grapes likely unaffected by Rim fire’s smoke
• Wild weather roils E Washington during harvest
• Rain, hail, tempests, plague Europe but wine will flow
• Aussie wine exports set for bumper year
• Harvest Time in Livermore
• Optical grape sorter boosts German wine
• Tablas Creek: Mid-Sept Harvest Report
• North Coast grape harvest accelerates (Metered access. May require subscription)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Gaviota Coast farms could face restrictions
• Judge’s proposed decision would cancel water fee
• Farm groups sweat Cal minimum wage increase
• CA Legislature sends agricultural bills to the governor
• Start-up Winery on Correct(ional) Course
• Giesen Taps Pacific Highway Wines and Spirits as US Distro
• Bootstrapping Vineyard Worker Now Living The Dream (Metered access. May require subscription)

• Your harvest can benefit by running 170 fully-automated analyses per hour. [Sponsored Link]

CALIFORNIA TRENDS

• Wine’s Drama Queens
• CaliTransformational
• Foreign Investment in Napa

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Truett-Hurst Sets Earnings Release, Conference Call & Webcast
• Lion, Pernod Ricard face off in court
• Pernod Ricard to use QR codes on all China packaging
• Pernod – Ricard’s best man is off to France
• Donaghey leaves his post with Diageo
• Top five innovative drinks companies

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Asia’s thirst for Screaming Eagle soars
• Petrus Chases Screaming Eagle, Asia Thirst Drives Prices
• Merchants predict fine wine prices will rise

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

HEALTH

• Grape juice can be as good for health as red wine This is not scientifically correct, but wine industry sloth and apathy allows this error to spread.
• Stop Drinking Wine, Get Healthier Skin

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Wine Apps Get Social, Convert Instagram Followers Into Customers
• How to Set up a Data Collection Plan – Primary Data
• Friends most influential in wine buying decision
• Craft Beer and Social Media Move In-Step

MARKETING & SALES

• The marketing costs for a $50 bottle
• Hot Prospect Wines Led By Calif & Imported Sparklers
• Corkage: Issues and strategies

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Minerality. A Reductive Phenomenon?
• Italian red varieties thrive in NW vineyards, wineries
• Narrow Gate Vineyards tries biodynamics
• Hand Harvesting 90 vines of St Laurent

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Farm Bureau Rebuts Activists’ Claims in Producer Privacy Suit
• New CA bill expands tastings to craft distillers
• French winemaker appeals over ‘Lafite’ name

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Impressions from Savour Australia 2013

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• AZ: Growing a wine-making workforce

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

OH CANADA!

• Why things are looking up for the B.C. wine industry

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• ID: Small but growing wine industry making a splash
• MD: Like/Dislike with Jade Ostner, Maryland Wineries Association
• WA: Calif companies donate to WSU Tri-Cities wine center

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• High-Tech Future For Grape Growing And Winemaking
• Bee researcher struggles for funding

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Amarone Ace: Romano Dal Forno

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Australians Sip More Wine, Less Beer
• OZ: Woolworths agrees to wine grower code
• OZ: Winemaker drills for opals in remote outback town

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Winemakers hope to ride out Chinese austerity push
• Great River Hill not your typical Chinese vineyard

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina should promote its Chardonnay

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine: Improving with age?
• A Field Guide Your Wine Style
• Pioneering winemakers featured on Napa cemetery tours (Metered access. May require subscription)

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

OLIVE OIL

• Trade Commission Report a Good Read for New World Olive Oil Producers
• Oxitec CEO on Why Trial of its Genetically-Modified Olive Fly Should Go Ahead

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“Bear Creek Winery incorporates cantankerous urine elements and a bright vinegar flavor in their 1990 Syrah.

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