NEWS FETCH – September 30, 2013

TOP NEWS

• No Wine Among Most Valuable Beverage Brands
• Wine Inventory Up, Grape Prices Down
• Bordeaux Exports: China Down But U.S. On The Rise
• American AgCredit grows by lending to farms
• Farm Bill Slips Away…For Now

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Organic Wine Growers Fear Grape Glut
• After Rain, NW winemakers, grape growers must wait
• Southern Oregon vintners see early grape harvest
• OR: Rain dampens local outlook for 2013 wine
• Napa Merlot harvest
• Best Georgian wine harvest in decades

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Celebrating 11 New AVA’s in Paso Robles
• Central Coast ground water quality poorest in state
• Big water conflict coming in 2014
• $17,000 in Napa vineyard equipment reported stolen
• Table grape commission offers grants to teachers
• CA SauvBlanc Looking Up

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LEGAL MATTERS

• Appeals Court Allows Alcohol Ads in Virginia College Newspapers
• BTN issues Report on US State Distribution Franchise Laws

DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Montana Changes Wine Direct Shipping Regulations

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Brown-Forman to set up new distribution company in France
• Treasury Wine Is Shopping Beringer (Re-Run in case you missed it Friday)
  

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 suffers second decline

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Tasting Notes on Wine Labels
• Vinomofo taps into mystery box fad

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

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Managing 3 Generations In The Workplace
• 10 Ways to Keep Millennial Employees

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Art of the Blend
• NZ reaping rewards of experimentation
• Making Cool Wines
• How the German Wine Industry is Shifting to Meet Consumers

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

WINE TOURISM

• Oregon Redefines Wine Tourism

EDUCATION

• American Vineyard Foundation Announces V&E Scholarships

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OR: Net farm income dropped 5 percent in 2012
• WA: The power couple of Washington wine

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• The Environmental Impact of Biodynamic Versus Conventional Viticulture Practices
• Suspected Pesticide Link To Bee Colony Collapse Stirs Action

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Saving Ligurian Wine From the Abyss

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Australian wine mogul to challenge for America’s Cup
• OZ: Wolf Blass has ‘Wine State’ vision for SA

LATIN AMERICA

• In 8 years, Argentina doubled its share in Japan

SOUTH AFRICA

• All About South African Wine (with Map)

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• John Gillespie’s Vietnam War Wine Memory
• I’ll Have What She’s Drinking
• The most important Italian grapes
• Wine comedy, and why so much is not funny
• Bryan Ulbrich Puts His Best Foot Forward—The Left One
• Size of wineglass, type of wine influences how much wine is poured

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

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“Orgasmic parsnip perfume and bleachy molasses essences are brought together in the 1996 Zinfandel from Champs de la Verrue.”

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HARVEST 2013 VIDEO

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