NEWS FETCH – October 1, 2013

TOP NEWS

• China’s growing interest in Californian wine
• Why The French Wine Pesticides DO Matter
• Restauranteurs pessimistic on sales, economy
• Can you bank on Asia’s investment in fine wine?
• USDA Reports Foreign Ownership Up By 1 Million Acres
• Shutdown Issues Hold Farm Bill Hostage
• Cornell Specialty Crops Research Gets USDA Funding

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Bordeaux: Merlot harvest races against rot
• Record Rains Drench Oregon Vineyards
• Turrentine Harvest Update
• El Dorado Harvest Continues
• Over supply of wine hurting Aussies
• Cognac Thirst Lifting Vineyard Cost in France’s Charente Region

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• New hotels, vineyards Proposed For SW Paso Robles
• Lake County Wine Auction reaches $1 million milestone
• Bigger, better quality crop for father-son raisin growers

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

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo stirs USL in bid to shake Indian market
• LVMH chief said to be looking to his children to succeed him

FINANCE, M&A

• Join the cellars market: buying property in French wine country

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Mixed reaction to Yquem 2011 price
• Schloss Johannisberg TBA Sets Auction Record
• Pontet-Canet ’09 Drops to Three-Month Low Amid Liv-Ex 50 Decline

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

ALCOHOL REGULATION

• The COLA Conundrum
• WineAmerica Launches Wine Policy Day
• French wine tax plans will ‘cork the industry’
• States May Discriminate Against Out of State Wholesalers.

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Apparently, No One Likes Syrah Because It’s Too Slutty
• How To Understand Really Stupid Wines
• Wine Searcher loses sight of China
• Pinot Politics
• Better Wine Through Chemistry

• The Wine Bible [Sponsored Link]

MARKETING & SALES

• Planet Of The Grapes For Millennials
• Is Sponsorship REALLY the Answer?
• Amazon hiring 70,000 temp workers to fill holiday online orders
• Hong Kongers spend HK$5k a year on wine
• Heineken hints at ‘revolutionary’ high-end home beer appliance
• ‘Elegant’ Fuller’s London Pride beer bottle borrows wine style cues

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Mendocino, Roots and Ridges, A Review

OH CANADA!

• BC Food And Wine Target Indian Market

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Developing a Market for Chinese Wine: Tourism and Education
• Tokyo developer uncorks apartment building for wine lovers
• China: Flush with Pride

OLIVE OIL

• Spain Speculates on American Takeover of Deoleo
• Greeks Respond to Calls for New Tests for Olive Oil Quality

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“An outspoken vodka aftertaste and frothy walnut midtones are entangled in the 2002 White Zinfandel from Don Francisco Winery.”