NEWS FETCH – October 3, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Hambrecht To Leave Truett-Hurst Board
• UFW To Access Calif’s 100 Largest Farming Operations
• Caymus Matriarch Lorna Belle Glos Wagner Dies
• How low are wine prices these days? Awfully low
• Agriculture’s top legal gun

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Crunch time for international bulk wine
• London Cru Rejects Bordeaux Grapes Due to Poor French Vintage Conditions
• Burgundy Struggles to Meet Growing Demand
• OZ: Hunter wine industry suffering from oversupply
• Tablas Creek: Ending earliest Paso harvest since 2001
• Vinho Verde reports record export figures
• Armenia to triple wine production by 2020

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa County planners reject Flynnville winery project
• Proposal for hotels, vineyards in southwest Paso Robles moves ahead
• SLO Vineyards, olive farm ask for exemptions from moratorium on planting crops

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

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Brands quarterly profit rises on Modelo buy

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Flashy wine investment firms in liquidation with £1m black hole
• Pichon-Longueville 2010 at Low for Year on Liv-Ex

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

HEALTH

• Resveratrol stays effective at fighting cancer

ALCOHOL REGULATION & COMPLIANCE

• Paster Training releases new Alcohol Log and Incident Report Book

MARKETING & SALES

• Us-versus-them mentality of Milennials and Boomers must end
• Hong Kong buyers prefer the personal touch
• US Hispanics, an opportunity for Argentine wines

• Extreme Wine: Searching the World for the Best, the Worst, the Outrageously Cheap, the Insanely Overpriced, and the Undiscovered [Sponsored Link]

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

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

BOOKS

• No Snifferati or Spitterati: Extreme Wine Countdown
• New California Wine by Jon Bonné
• Reaching for Everything In Wine: Vintage Hugh Johnson

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Touring the Prosecco DOCG with Nino Franco
• NZ: ‘Gruvee’ starting to find its niche
• Port Winemakers Can Now Use Lower-Quality Brandy

• The New California Wine: A Guide to the Producers and Wines Behind a Revolution in Taste [Sponsored Link]

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY: Fourth Generation Joins Dr. Frank
• OR: State’s wine industry keeps on growing

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Creating the wines of tomorrow

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Olivier Cousin: case put back to 5th March 2014 – becoming too hot to handle?
• Virginie Taittinger launches Champagne
• One in five buy counterfeit alcohol in UK – survey

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Powell taken to court over Laird slur

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Robert Stemmler: The “Unwilling Prince of Pinot”
• Varietals are the spice of life

• Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2014 [Sponsored Link]

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“Fettucini Bros Winery merges explicit shrimp midtones and a tummy-tickling ketchup flavor in their 2006 Chenin Blanc.”