NEWS FETCH – December 6, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Treasury Wine Takes China Hit: Some Penfold Prices Cut 50%
• Fetzer vs. Fetzer: Battle Over Eagle Peak
• Mixed trends for wine industry
• 80% Of Seized Kurniawan Wines Fake
• Wine Import Bubble About To Pop?
• OR: Court Outlaws Weddings, Corp Events On Farmland
• Is This the Beginning of the End for Cork?

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Agreement Reached on managing Paso groundwater
• Cameron Hughes Plans New Brand Line
• Carli to retire as CEO of American AgCredit
• Wente To Hit 700,000 Cases This Year
• Speakers tout storage during water meeting
• Court Rulings Leave High-Speed rail ‘dead in the water’
• 650 acres added to Napa County preservation
• New Petaluma brewery shuttered by city

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Tesco reports record wine sales
• Delegat’s wants to become global high-end wine company
• How Diageo plc Makes Money

FINANCE, M&A

• Napa Wineries Still Scouting Red Mountain
• JF Hillebrand acquires US logistics company

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Christie’s to push online wine auctions
• Buying En Primeur: does it pay?
• French Red Wine Prices Highest Since at Least 1995
• En primeur 2013: the perfect storm?
• Bordeaux Wine Dispatches: There’s a Bad Moon Rising
• Fine-Wine Prices Sink to Year’s Lowest Ebb

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

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Playing Chinese trademark roulette
• Revisiting the Power Behind Prohibition

MARKETING & SALES

• How to use inventory management as a strategic holiday advantage
• Alcohol Companies Marketing with Music Lyrics
• The US Hispanic opportunity

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Dot-Whine: A look at the .wine hassles
• Libelium pours its smart tech into wine production

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• The revitalization of Hardys
• Agricultural economics and management – of oneself

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Book celebrates blind tasting milestone
• Heimoff’s UC Davis Winery PR Class, Notes
• Sommelier Journal Resurrected

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Listening to Nicolas and Elena Catena, Catena Zapata Wines
• Consumers Not enthralled By New World sparkling wine
• Who’s Your Daddy?: Gaglioppo di Cirò
• Napa Valley’s lesser known grape grows up
• Wine Snobs’ Days Are Numbered
• On some wines experts disagree
• Wine: The new bunch (By Jancis Robinson and Valentina Romei)

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

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• ME: Beer and wine contribute millions to Maine economy

ACADEMIA

• New Cornell Website Features Climate Change Information
• NC: Surry Community offers grape pests, diseases and disorders class
• You could major in wine at college? Really?
• SSU student has a nose for wine

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Largest-ever bottle of rosé Champagne
• Free Flow Wines fills a niche by filling kegs
• Collotype Labels expands Napa plant

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK Millennials A New Breed
• Abruzzo disaster: images from Valentini & update
• Georgian Wine Now Part Of UN’s Intangible Heritage
• Biodynamic Wine In Puglia
• UK Wine duty could rise 54% in six years

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

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Challenges of drinking wine in hot climates
• No Honor Among Wine Thieves

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

NUTS!

• What can growers do to improve almond pollination?