NEWS FETCH – November 6, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Treasury Wine Aussie Shareholders Begin Plonk Debacle Lawsuit
• Pressing Data Into Great Wine Brands
• Bacchus Launches Wineworks Sales & Marketing Unit
• Accolade snaps up Mud House and Waipara Hills

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Is Mendocino the Most Organic Wine Region?
• Moss Adams names Jeff Gutsch to North Bay partner in charge
• How the French once hated Calif Wine
• Postmodern Winemaking Seminar This Weekend Adds Web Session

FINANCE, M&A

• Private Equity Dips Into Moonshine
• And now, the investor farmer

MARKETING & SALES

• Vin65, VinTank Show Real Time Social Media ‘GEO-Notifications on POS
• Marketing: Sex, Wine & Popcorn
• Movember Proves Cause Marketing Isn’t Just For Women
• New Chapter For Jacques Lardière & Louis Jadot In America
• Beverage Trade Network Looking For More Partners

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bordeaux UK director banned after ‘colossal mismanagement’
• Dangers of Fighting fakes in China
• Fine Wine Prices Fall Seven Months in a Row
• Mouton ’06 Near Eight-Month Liv-Ex Low

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

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• France is holding its own in global wine production despite difficult 2013
• Global wine production shifting away from Europe
• Last January cold reduces Idaho winegrape harvest
• Etna Harvest Report

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• McIntyre’s Hate Mail

MATTERS OF TASTE

• UC Davis ‘Vintages’ wine tasting event shows changes in time, technology
• Tributes pour in after chef Charlie Trotter dies
• Ice Wine … In Georgia, USA?
• The apothic-alypse – the rise of sweet red wines
• The Wine Organizing Principle: First Varietal, Then Terroir
• Another European Closes His Mind To Vinous Possibility
• Cowan Cellars Wines, the current portfolio

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

OH CANADA!

• Ontario Mulling Grocery Wine Options

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• AZ: What’s it like to make wine in Arizona?
• GA: State’s wineries have come a long way
• NC: Wine symposium returns to Surry Community College
• NY: Top New York Wine Restaurant Veritas Closes
• OR: Shelves an Ambitious Green Wine Certification
• WA: City of Kennewick OKs boutique wine village
• WA: Walter Clore Center enters final weeks of construction

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Water concerns farmers more than climate change
• Open Season for Calif Specialty Crop Grants
• Food e-vangelists: a golden audience for farmers

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• London gets first urban boutique winery

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

SOUTH AFRICA

• The unique wines of the Swartland

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Are You a Wine Obsessive?

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

OLIVE OIL

• Israeli Olive Growers Discover That Thinking Small Can Deliver Big Results
• Greek Olive Oil Production Down Fifty Percent
• Melgarejo’s Bid for Even Healthier Extra Virgin Olive Oil

JUST CAN’T MAKE STUFF LIKE THIS UP

• A Mammoth Wild Paso Vine with Historic Roots
• Wine and Cognac — not zombies — are the real danger on The Walking Dead