NEWS FETCH – November 4, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Fake wine now accounts for 20% of global wine sales
• Bronco, Vino Farms, Gallo Lead List Of Top 25 Grape Growers
• Beringer & The Morgan Stanley Report
• Arbor Mist: First Wine Brand To Get 1 Million Fans
• Consumers to dine out less in 2014

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Charles Bacigalupi, influential grape grower and dentist dies
• How a Frenchman became the consummate Californian
• The Solano County Jerk-Around:Trying To Open A Winery
• Plastic Moves Into Winemaking
• California vintners branch out to Italian grapes
• Sonoma Valley nursery boosts grapevine output to 6 million
• Sonoma: Compelling wines emerge from fog belt
• Has Calif’s Wine Culture finally matured?

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Schumer calls for end to ban on mailing liquor, beer, wine
• Schumer backs wine-by-mail, but not enough
• Why wine megastores targeted MN: Weak competition
• Scrutinizing The PLCB Annual Report

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• How ex-boss of Diageo is shaping up as head of Bupa
• Bargain Booze owner reports sales growth
• Pernod Ricard Winemakers appoints Anne Tremsal global marketing

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Leoville Barton 2006 at 8-Month Liv-Ex High
• Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 index falls 1.0%

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

HEALTH

• Study Challenges Claim That Resveratrol Decreases Exercise Benefits
• Sulfite labels scare US wine drinkers?

MARKETING & SALES

• Revamped Vin De France Category Sees Big Opportunities In U.S.
• A Consumer revolution in wine
• Millennials and Wine: Revolution or Evolution?
• Trinchero, Robertson Family to launch Duck Commander Wines

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

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• 60 Calif Wineries at First ProWine China

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Riding the Hashtag in Social Media Marketing
• A Consumer Revolution in Wine and Responsive Website Design
• Twitter’s Profound Impact on Wine Purchases
• Introducing The Facebook Wine Cave Page

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• The problem with your ‘CRM’
• Training for Vineyard Supervisors en Español

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Richard Siddle: the PR lessons to be learnt from recent media blitz on wine
• Wine truisms – or are they?
• The New Kodak Moment: Why Storytelling Is Harder Than Ever

• Happy reader says: “The community is abuzz about this book:” Wine Curmudgeon’s Guide to Cheap Wine. [Sponsored Link]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine World Atlas Revised to Include Finger Lakes, China
• Europe Decline = More Opportunities for Aussie winemakers
• Getting to Know Mendoza’s Varied Terroir
• New breed of sommeliers give wine a fresh flavour
• Errazuriz shows that less is more

CHEAP WINE

• My favourite wines under £10 (by Jancis Robinson)
• Cheap wine history: Hogue fume blanc and Jaja de Jau

OH CANADA!

• British Columbia Wines secures Asia partnership

LATIN AMERICA

• The Argentinian wine boom has been an impressive story
• Argentina must make Malbec work harder

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Roundtable To Discuss Grape Pest Management In San Joaquin Valley
• Calif groundwater problems to be discussed

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Former Slag Heap Now Vineyard, With Promising Results
• UK: Telford Wines acquires The Bretby Wine Company
• Terroir, Viticulture, Harvest in the Languedoc
• UK Supermarkets artificially inflating wine prices

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Orlando Wines rebranded as Pernod Ricard Winemakers

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• White wine from red grapes, crocopotamus vino, Parker points

SOUTH AFRICA

• New WOSA head targets premium wines

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Remember Me? I’m Your Brother
• Five things not to say about wine this holiday season
• Foiled Again
• Just Say No To Wine-Related Paraphernalia
• Home wine cellar: the most common mistakes

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

OLIVE OIL

• Chile looks to global markets to promote premium olive oil
• How much fraud in olive oil sector in Spain?

JUST CAN’T MAKE STUFF LIKE THIS UP

• Beer ‘saves’ drunken sea swimmer