NEWS FETCH – October 11, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Treasury Wine Hires Cupcake Winemaker
• Bacchus Capital Exits Qupe Investment
• Charles Banks Buys Majority Of Qupe Winery
• Wine Policy Day Shot Down by Shutdown
• Alcohol intake may lower the risk of rheumatoid arthritis
• Wine Atlas Co-Author on Emerging Trends

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Calif 2013: Looks like one for the books
• Harvest wrapping up on Washington’s Red Mountain
• Sonoma County winegrape harvest in home stretch
• Champagne harvest yields under pressure
• Loire vintage: Pouilly-Fumé

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• S.J. County Nixes St. Jorge expansion
• St. Jorge Winery did itself no favors
• California Wine Summit in pictures

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

FINANCE, M&A

• Saint Emilion Chateau Merged Into Chateau Quintus
• KKR Invests in Chinese Maker Of Wine Fridges

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Margaux ’96 Trades Near 3-1/2 Year Liv-Ex Low

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

MARKETING & SALES

• How to get social media to pay dividends
• The Making Of The Contemporary Wine Label
• UK Independents back Oz Clarke’s exposure of supermarket half-price wine deals

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• In the Finger Lakes, Devotion to Riesling Shows
• Rieslings thrive in Pinot Noir country
• Touring Dry Creek Valley with Jameson Fink
• Factors combine to help NZ Pinot Noir come of age
• A Consumer Friendly Approach to Wine
• There Was A Time When We Drank Wine Because We Liked It

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

OH CANADA!

• A Chile wind is blowing in Canada

ACADEMIA

• Wine Econ class at NYU is the best kind of ‘dismal’
• A college enology class gets its fill of the Wine Curmudgeon

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Timeline of Major Technological Advances in Winemaking

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

REGULATION

• US shutdown affects craft beer industry
• NY: Cuomo Signs Law Allowing Farmers’ Market Wine Sales

BOOKS

• The world wine map is changing

EUROPE & THE UK

• Rome Overrules Barolo’s Historic Boundaries
• Oddbins ‘positive’ about double-digit growth
• French government rebuffs claims it is ‘anti-wine’

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

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Fine wine company rises from the ashes

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• What My Boss Taught Me About Wine : Three Tips for Confronting Cultural Bias
  
• Lo Hai Qu at a Wine Auction

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

OLIVE OIL

• What an Olive Oil Brand Needs to ‘Make it Big’ in the U.S.
• Catalan Competition Authority Considers Investigation Into Price Manipulation

RANDOM WINE REVIEW OF THE DAY

• From the Random Wine Review Generator

“The 2004 Semillon from Bob’s Vineyards incorporates lusty rose midtones with a melancholy mango-fandango aroma.”