NEWS FETCH – October 21, 2013

TOP NEWS

• OZ: Cold snap devastates NSW wine grape crops
• Trinchero’s $300 million Lodi expansion
• GMO labeling: Good policy or blind hysteria?
• Redwoods vs. red wine
• SVB Survey: The Highest Return on Your Time Invested
• European trade deal has Ontario wine industry concerned

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Breakneck Calif harvest offers lessons
• High hopes for California 2013
• OR: Region’s wine grapes get ‘serious hang time’
• ID: Bad year for vintners, good year for Treasure Valley wine
• 2013 Loire Vintage: back to Bourgueil and Chinon
• Harvest 2013: “It’s Happening in Soledad!”
• Starting the Wine

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• California’s Chinese trade office hires top manager
• Calif Finds More Offshore Fracking
• Chenin Blanc Petite Sirah Conference Clarksburg November 14-15
• BottleRock festival debts remain unpaid
• Emails reveal behind-the-scenes BottleRock details
• Some pioneering California wineries still thriving 80 years after Repeal
• Napa Valley Vintners may fund preschool readiness programs

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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Changyu Wine profit falls as sales hit by government policy
• Safeway boosting stock buyback

DEALS

• Burgundy’s Faiveley Buys Dupont-Tisserandot

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Smith Says Buy Bordeaux 1990, 1995-1996, 1998, 2000

HEALTH

• Glass of wine a week can cut chances of pregnancy by a third
• Alcohol and the Scary Headline: It Hits Home

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Local Search and Invisible Wineries
• Wines of Argentina launches Instagram campaign
• Wine E-commerce: Vin65 Review

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Who makes the best wine critics, supertasters or the rest of us?
• Syrah-ously: What’s the deal with China’s Cabernet Gernsicht?
• Where Paso Goes Burgundian
• Kermit Lynch, Terroirist
• Why Does Wine Cry?
• A Riff On: “Why wine reviewers should be more like book reviewers”
• Greg Lambrecht’s wine preservation system
• TA: What is it good for?
• Can France’s Best Make Quality Wine in China?

WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Paso landowners agree that groundwater must be managed — but how?
• Less CO2 will ravage wine market
• ‘Perfect storm’ of factors blamed for colony collapse

REGULATION & COMPLIANCE

• Loosened Laws in New Jersey Result in Brewery Boom

LEGAL MATTERS

• International Wine Law Conference Wraps Up in Vienna

MARKETING & SALES

• Barefoot Seeks Expansion Through Aggressive Innovation
• Raise a glass to low-calorie Champagne

OH CANADA!

• BC: Wineries Grapple With Industrial Projects

EUROPE & THE UK

• Elite French winemakers seek elusive Chinese blend
• UK: Women who turned stony soil into thriving vineyard
• Portugese Workers Take Vineyard Boss to Court

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine Wizard Breaks Rules With $110 Pinot Noir

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• French fine wine-makers seek to root in China

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Everything I know about America I learned from Sergio Leone
• Wine and the Académie Française

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Oil Industry Growing in Georgia (US)

CRAFT BEER & SPIRITS

• Firestone Walker co-founder shares secrets to brewery’s success