NEWS FETCH – December 17, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Chinese investor eyes Carneros agritourism center
• US wines winning in restaurants & bars
• Transitions: Alderbrook, Farrell, D’Esterhazy
• Deutsch, Precept Partner On New Restaurant-Focused WA Wine Brand
• November restaurant sales soften
• Vast majority’of Kurniawan wines: Fake
• Yellow Tail Resurges

• The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• More on the troubling 2011 vintage
• The Curtain Is Dropping on Calif’s 2011 Vintage
• Wine business drives new Napa County construction
• Wine deals fill Solano County industrial vacancy
• Pierce’s Disease CDFA 2013 Research Symposium Program (pdf)

• The New California Wine: A Guide to the Producers and Wines Behind a Revolution in Taste [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

LEGAL MATTERS & REGULATION

• AR: Wine Suppliers Must Register by End of Year
• IN: Liquor Chain Can’t Intervene in Cold Beer Case
• NM: Gruet settles suit over failed winery bid
• NY:Time Is Up for High-Security Wine Cellar
• OR: Grocers file privatization measure

COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Wine Auction Trends of the Year
• Romanee-Conti Gets Top Prices at Wine Auctions
• Chateaux: #Stop2013BordeauxBashing

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

RUDY, RUDY, RUDY

• Photocopied Labels & Counterfeit Recipes Unveiled At Wine Fraud Trial
• Jurors Could Decide Alleged Wine Counterfeiter’s Fate Soon

INDUSTRY TRENDS

• Deconstructing and Disentangling the Disintermediation of the Wine Business
• 10 trends shaping the restaurant industry in 2014

MARKETING & SALES

• Savvy wine marketing strategies for holiday sales
• The [yellow tail] trail
• UK and Japan vital for fine wine sales
• Are Cute Wine Labels Sweet For The Consumer?
• Jamieson Ranch first Napa Winery to launch Wine-on-Tap
• Top 10 tactics for luxury drinks brands

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Drync Touted as Shazam for Wine
• Flash Wine Sales Grow in November
• 6 Website Design Trends That You’ll See in 2014

• The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Focus On Depletions at Retail level
• WA: H-2A use projected to increase

• Global Brands: The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise) [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• New tools to prevent ‘bacon’ wine
• The problem with bagged wines
• Grenache? Come On, Do the Mathis
• Oregon Riesling on the Rise

• Postmodern Winemaking: Rethinking the Modern Science of an Ancient Craft [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

OH CANADA!

• Ontario wines to be sold at farmers’ markets

• Canadian Wineries: The story of Canada’s entry into the world of world-class vintages [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

EUROPE & THE UK

• BrewDog eyes end of crowdfunding drive
• UK: Just half of women now drink alcohol every week
• Moldovan Wines: Bullied by Russia, but Resolute
• The Impact of Golf Ball Sized Hail in Bergerac

• Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer’s Tour of France [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Steve Bird sees massive potential in China

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine and warfare: Dutch courage
• Thank God Almighty, Frei At Last

• Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

CRAFT BEER & SPIRITS

• Limited-edition beer: fool’s gold?

JUST CAN’T MAKE CRAZY STUFF LIKE THIS UP

• Buyer Pays $2,513 Per Glass Of 1947 Cheval Blanc

RUN-ON, BLAH-BLAH HEADLINE

• Canadian Start-up makes big splash with new app for wine enthusiasts, the first in a series of apps targeting the food and beverage industries