NEWS FETCH – November 11, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Veterans Day: Honor and Thanks Deserved (Scroll to bottom for tributes)
• Heidi Scheid to lead California Winegrape Growers
• Two wineries approved by Napa planners
• Chinese drink wine for health benefits, not flavour
• How to sell a vineyard and winery business for high multiples

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Temecula hot air balloon explosion injures four
• Big project has big concerns in North SLO County
• Copia’s future discussed by Planning Commission
• Tim Hanni brings vinotypes to Wine
• Napa winery dispute to go before county
• New WWS Wine Aficionado Development Director
• Winemaking Returns to San Francisco

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

FINANCE, M&A

• Demeter Group Advises On Ole Smoky Moonshine
• Major Investors To Divest Stake In India’s Nashik Vintners

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Instant wine collection for sale – for $165,000
• Liv-ex releases the 2013 Power 100
• Lafite’s Carruades ’09 Touches Six-Month Low
• Biggest wine hoax of all? Kurniawan insanity plea

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

DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Liquor privatization not only way to serve Oregon consumer

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Why Constellation Brands ‘ Run Isn’t Over Yet
• Pernod Ricard online drinks store to target UK’s digitally savvy

HEALTH

• The government and unhealthy things
• CDC Slams TV Alcohol Ads

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine drinkers stick to what they know
• Duck Commander wines and “yuppie folks”

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

CHINA’S DEVELOPING TASTES

• China developing thirst for Spanish wine
• Moser to bring Chinese wine to UK supermarkets
• South American Wineries Headed For China

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• What today’s social media means for tomorrow’s wine industry
• Impatience: What’s Next for Social Business?

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Diageo uses 3D printing to promote new whiskey
• Design: Drinking with our eyes
• Normacorc wins innovation award

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Why you should care about creating your perfect wine blog title
• The Scratch + Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert, a Book Review

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Calif Pinots to Beat Blockbusters
• A tongue-in-cheek response to apothicaphobia
• A Snapshot of South African Wines
• Forget Pinots. Have You Tried a Maharashtra Merlot?
• New York’s faddish wine community
• 10 Things Every Wine Lover Should Know About Gianfranco Soldera
• Winemaker Ken Brown: Veteran Still On His Game
• Does “blush” wine still exist? Was that a Nagel on the wall?

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Foodie phenomenon spreads to London
• Loire 2013 harvest ‘difficult and complicated’
• Kirimoto opens the Bulgari winery in Tuscany
• Italy’s Most Expensive Wines
• Sicily’s Superstar Winery
• EU to offer sugar and wine deals in SAfrica trade talks

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

PERSONAL VETERANS DAY THANKS

• To My Papa
• To Sgt. Chris Nellis
• To World’s Greatest Fighter Pilot
  
• To Friends At 160th Special Operations Air Regiment

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• A last supper with an old friend
• Restaurant Wine Pours: Is Your Glass Half-Full?
• Bordeaux Week: Finding Wines that You Can Drink

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

OLIVE OIL

• The Most (and Least) Fake Extra Virgin Olive Oil Brands
• World Olive Oil Production Predicted to Top 3.2 Million Tons
• Council Hears Why Olive Oil Quality Seals Are Burgeoning

JUST CAN’T MAKE STUFF LIKE THIS UP

• Police break up Oregon Tour de Franzia
• Heineken uses teetotaller for advert