NEWS FETCH – September 25, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Truett-Hurst Shows Small Loss On Soaring Sales
• SLO County investigating illegal vineyards
• Ousted Treasury CEO Paid $2.4Mil For Lousy Job
• Rabobank: U.S. farmland value increases to slow
• Proposed new Paso Robles AVAs an object lesson
• The Great Recession: shopping trips down, spend per trip up
• Crop Insurance and the Agricultural Safety Net

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

• Sizable Calif winegrape crop moderates pricing
• Okanagan Harvest In Full Swing
• Napa Valley wine harvest damage (video)
• Italy’s 2013 wine production Up
• Bordeaux Estates upbeat as whites, Sauternes harvest begins
• Hail-Damaged Vouvray Producers Get Some Relief

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• North Coast vintners, growers optimistic
• Water ruling could impact California fire fee challenge
• Renwood Winery Welcomes Joe Shebl As Winemaker
• California Establishes Olive Oil Commission
• Healdsburg vintner takes risks

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• UK Wine broker cons clients with £25,000 auction scam
• Lafite ’12 Vintage Holding Steady at $5,790
• The Right Bank 100 index is a star performer

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Diageo to push ‘millionaire’ brands
• Coppola Expands Sofia Line, Says New Brand On The Way
• NZ wines sail into expanding US market
• Top 10 best-selling wine brands in 2012
• Unplugged aims to make wine a mainstream drink
• Skinnygirl to capitalise on Prosecco trend
• The world’s most marked-up wines

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

HEALTH

• Alcohol consumption & colorectal cancer

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• New York Wine Experience Sold Out
• Key exhibitors return to London Wine Fair

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• NY Venture Capitalist Set To Uproot Wine
• How to Set up a Data Collection Plan – Secondary and Tertiary Data
• Data-capture best practices boost direct-to-consumer wine sales
• Wine E-Commerce: VineSpring Review
• Winery Software Ready Just in Time for Harvest
• Tiare Technology Appoints MS as Chief Wine Officer
• BinWise Signs Lasco Enterprises as New Client

MEDIA MATTERS

• Hollywood & Vine? The Latest in Wine Themed Movies

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Does bottle size matter when it comes to wine?
• Blending and wine complexity
• The make-up of wine under powerful and costly scrutiny
• Drinking Deeply From A Cooler Cup
• An Interview With America’s Latest Master Sommelier
• A Big Wine Story From a Little French Village
• Organic ‘is the future’ for Bordeaux wine

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

WINE EDUCATION & RESEARCH

• A Training Ground for Tomorrow’s Top Sommeliers
• Masters of Wine vote to keep third exam paper
• ASEV Names New Pres
• American Vineyard Foundation Scholarship Awards
• News from the National Grape and Wine Initiative

OH CANADA!

• BC: Wine study indicates millions generated for Okanagan
• Alberta Benefiting from Liquor Privatization

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OR: Burgundy’s Jacques Lardière Is Giddy to Be Making Wine in Oregon
• WA: Merlot a player in Washington wine

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Forget terroir, forget enology school graduates—the true wine heroes are single-cell fungi
• Calif Legislation aims to fight Farm metal theft

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Prosecco Police: Undercover With a Serious Buzz
• EU Mulls Moldova Wine Countermove

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Australian Wine on the Global Stage

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“The 2000 Sauvignon Blanc from Champs de Dauphin mixes sour lemon midtones with a titillating cilantro aroma.”

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