NEWS FETCH – September 23, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Treasury CEO Exit Shows Shift In Way Aussies Must Market Wine (Scroll Down For More Links)
• Grape Prices Heading Lower
• Aussie wine exports set for bumper year
• CA, WA, ID: 1-2-3 in Western Ag

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

• North Coast rain: wine country dodges a bullet
• Good Grapes … Looking For A Good Home
• Delayed Champagne Harvest Gets Go-Ahead
• Finger Lakes: Disease Pressure
• Sonoma Grape growers unfazed by rain
• Columbia Basin Grape harvest in full swing
• Greek harvest looks promising
• Excellent year for Arizona wine grape growers
• The perfect Napa harvest
• Italians Replace Immigrant Workers At Grape Harvest

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Independent review questions Bay Delta water plan
• Napa Valley Vintners Hosts Masters Candidates
• Water Worries in Paso Wine Country
• Sonoma history headed for the Smithsonian

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

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine shares slump
• Can Treasury get back in the black?
• Treasury Dumps US Wine, Then CEO
• Sour grapes for Treasury as boss axed

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Fine wine buyers shun Bordeaux for Napa
• Cru Bourgeois fills gap left by Bordeaux price hikes
• Louis XIII Jeroboam Smashes Auction Record
• Rare Austrian wines set for Vienna auction
• Counterfeit wines: scandal of the century

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Truett-Hurst to launch square bottle at Total Wine
• Truett-Hurst And The Emmys

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

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Brintex reviews dates for future London Wine Fairs

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Wine Labels Gone Wild
• How much is too much for wine labels?
• The John Lennon School of Wine Politics
• Wine Drinkers, Meet Beer Drinkers—Your New Allies

LEGAL MATTERS

• Wine firms’ sour grapes in domain name battle

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Skin contact whites, the next big thing
• How Our Brains Categorize Aromas
• China’s finest wines
• Grenache Day: keeping it simple
• The Fox In Wine’s Hen House

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

MEDIA

• What an influential wine blogger thinks of Lodi wines
• Profile: Wine Writer Eric Degerman

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Fruit fly pest threatens Veneto vineyards
• State Ag Depts Adopt Honeybee Protection Policy
• Creating the Wines Of Tomorrow

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Russian sparkling wine producer unveils expansion plans

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

LATIN AMERICA

• Leading Latin-American markets for Argentina

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa’s Rapidly Changing Wine Scene

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• 4 Wine Styles To Rule Them All, Which one fits you?

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

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Council Welcomes U.S. Report, But Queries Objectivity in Parts
• Patent Bid Showcases Oleocanthal’s Versatility
• Greek Police Investigate Olive Oil Stolen at Gunpoint

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“The 1999 Pinot Grigio from Alkie Winery coalesces introverted vodka overtones with a blissful potato aftertaste.”

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