NEWS FETCH – November 27, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Grape Growers Planting hard, But Say They Can Avoid New Glut
• Treasury Wine Asks Oz Supreme Court To stop access to shareholders
• Treasury Wine Axes Half Of Sr Exec Team
• Restaurant Alc Bev Consumption = Customer Satisfaction
• Sonoma Vineyard Opponents Sue Hobbs, County
• NZ Govt Funds Push To Dominate Low Alc, Low Cal Wine
• Lawsuits Challenge Paso Water Law

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• New investors propose a 2014 Napa BottleRock
• County exempts small farmers from some Paso Robles groundwater rules
• Vilsack stumps for farm bill in Fresno
• Judge’s rulings favor opponents of rail project

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Flaherty out as Treasury Wine restructures
• Twelve jobs go as Treasury Wine closes NZ plant
• LVMH Faces Backlash for Red Square Exhibit Eclipsing Lenin Tomb
• Pernod Ricard Leverages Its Big-Name Spirits With Hybrid Line Extensions

FINANCE, M&A

• Chateau La Lagune takes over neighbouring estate
• Analysis: Aquilini family taps into wine market with $8.3-million purchase
• Red Mountain AVA land sells for $8.7 million

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• 2013 Vintage Report: Europe
• OR Vineyards ponder impact of 2013’s record downpour
• Burgundy to consider increasing plantings

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

ACADEMIA

• UC, CSU are falling behind other states
• Fresno State getting larger
• UC Davis says it’s cultivating careers in the Central Valley

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Chinese buyer snaps up Opus One collection for $165K

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Luxury Consumers Respond to Exclusive Access, Not Promotion
• Fact Book Helps Bev Alc Marketers With Latest Rules and Regulations
• Wine on tap: an idea whose time has (finally) come

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Retailers’ Digital Ad Spending to Reach Record Levels in 2013
• This Is Why People Hate Your Flash & Big Graphics

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Rate hikes hidden in Calif’s glowing Obamacare reviews

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Warking Long Hours: 9 Years of the Wine Blog
• New book paints dark picture of Prohibition in the Napa Valley

MATTERS OF TASTE

• When Should You Not Be Allowed to Be Biodynamic?
• Malbec from Uruguay is a restrained treat
• Le Metro Pinot: A Conversation with Aaron Epstein

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

LEGAL MATTERS

• Apples & Grapes; Not the Same for Trademarks

OH CANADA!

• BC Liquor policy reform report now in AG’s hands

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NC: Regional Wine’s Origin in the OBX
• WA: Red Mountain land buyer to plant ‘soon’

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Crew Wine Co. Experiments with Trellis
• Air regulators modify rules on diesel trucks

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Dijon: Mustard & Now, Wine
• Dominic Symington named new director of Primum Familiae Vini
• UK: New alcohol-related admissions reporting to end ‘lurid’ headlines

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

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Opening the Trentingrana
• The Physics Behind the Singing Wine Glass
• Steven Kent Mirassou and his Lineage

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

OLIVE OIL

• Why olive oil is revered at the Hanukkah table
• Deoleo’s ‘Radical Transformation’

JUST CAN’T MAKE STUFF LIKE THIS UP

• Science behind “nuclear” beer prank revealed