NEWS FETCH – December 4, 2013

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• World map of wine to be turned on its head warns Dr Richard Smart
• Warning: Vine Trunk Disease Worse Than Phylloxera
• EU wine producers STILL in limbo as China probe continues
• Convenience Stores Becoming Wine Destinations
• 80 Years After End Of Prohibition, Hangover Still Lingers
• Cielo Vineyards Files Chapter 11

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Peet’s Coffee Owner to Keynote 2014 Unified Symposium
• Supervisors take up Temecula Wine Country plan
• Lawmakers request tougher penalties for trespass pot grows
• Cal Bar CLE Event for Attorneys at Kendall-Jackson
• Jeff Dodd Joins DP&F Land Use Group
• Drew Roberson Joins Hess As Central Division Chain Manager
• Eric Laumann to join Castle Rock Winery

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Emphazise fulfillment speeds for higher end-of-year sales
• Aussies look to improve country’s wine image
• Gift liquor sales decline for Chinese New Year
• Wine.com Releases Annual 2013 Wine.com 100

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Text, Coupons Replace Flash Deals as Mobile Holiday Focus
• Social Business is not Dead: New charts and data reveal the real evolution of social businesses

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Naked Capitalism
• US brewer only hires military veterans

HEALTH INSURANCE

• Calif State exchange unveils plans for small firms
• California sees over 430,000 Obamacare applications
• Politics trumps health for many Americans

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Sip It or Cellar It? The Basics of Wine Investing

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Meet The Woman Behind Top N.Z. Wine Estate Ata Rangi
• The Best Kosher Wine in Israel May or May Not Be From Israel
• Authenticity and Matthiasson wines
• Defining Authenticity
• Heimoff, PR and Media Prof
• Argentina is no one-trick pony

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

WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• UC entomologist Frank Zalom is new ESA president
• UC forest study: Excluding cattle doesn’t help toad
• Ranchers weigh options as dry spell lingers
• New website is ‘one-stop shop’ for climate change info

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Russia could be “big prize” for wine sector says tobacco chief
• Brintex launches London Wine Week

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

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Cultivating a wine region in India

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Vintage Photos: Drinking Wine in the 1970′s & 80′s
• What goes into the planting of a vineyard

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

OLIVE OIL

• Extra Virgin Olive Oil IGP Sicilia
• Deoleo Muscles Mills for ‘Never Seen’ Terms as it Moves to Hybrid Oils
• Spain Produces 8,700 Tons in First Month of New Olive Oil Season