NEWS FETCH – January 10, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Bumper Calif harvests won’t mean oversupply: Constellation
• Fatal Bordeaux Helo crash no accident?
• Major wine firms’ activity in China challenged by leading importer
• Fine-dining restaurants poised for growth in 2014
• Aussie Wine Grape Growers Accuse Big Brands Of Price Gouging.

• Growth Strategy 2014 – Where to sell? Whom to sell? What to sell? How to make it all happen? [Sponsored Link]

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Lawsuit Looms If Stanislaus County doesn’t revoke well-drilling permits
• Industry-Funded Study: Wine adds $13+ Bil to Sonoma County
• Wine Grapes Not Ceding Ground To Nuts
• Lori Ajax Appointed ABC Chief Deputy Director

• The Wine Savant: A Guide to the New Wine Culture [Sponsored Link]

ICE … WINE

• Warm weather ruins German ice wine crop
• Could the extreme cold mean higher wine prices?
• Winegrapes Suffer As Cold Slams Northeast, Midwest

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Distell Sees Opportunities in alcohol advertising ban

• When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence [Sponsored Link]

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Ex-cellar Drouhin sale starts Sotheby’s year

• Breakfast at Sotheby’s [Sponsored Link]

HEALTH

• Light Drinking Damages DNA
• Sugar is as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco, warn health experts
• 7 ways to keep alcohol from wrecking your diet

MARKETING & SALES

• Fleming’s By-The-Glass Program Is Difference Maker In Competitive Steak House Segment
• Israeli wineries innovate as they reach beyond kosher market
• Boomers, Millennials and Cheesy Ads
• Case Study: Lynch Wines Label
• Future of retail study: 30% of Americans would buy $1,000+ products online

• Planning Wine Trade Show Participation [Sponsored Link]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Social media opens up ad campaigns to smaller players,

• Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years [Sponsored Link]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Malbec, Argentina’s warm bear hug of a wine
• Becca Yeamans : Ultimate Wine Geek
• Sweet? A seismic change in wine
• How Legalized Marijuana May Impact Wine Sales…and Not
• The Problem with ‘Physiological Ripeness’
• MIT students set for Left Bank Bordeaux Cup 2014 debut

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Managing the Media

• The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking [Sponsored Link]

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• ME: Pine State Wins Spirits Distribution Deal From Maine Government
• NY: Finger Lakes vineyard placed in land trust to protect it from development
• PA: Liquor stores back in Republican crosshairs
• VA:How a few vineyards are putting the state on the fine-winery map

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

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Wine scientists smoke out vital data from bushfire

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Q&A with Steve Lewis, chief executive of Majestic Wine

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: AWRI announces heatwave warning and impact of elemental sulfur residues

• How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region [Sponsored Link]

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Cork: Harvest for the Patient Farmer
• 5 of the Strangest Wine Accessories
• Wine and Warfare part 12: Vineyards under attack

• The Science of Cheese [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• Taiwan Claims Italian Olive Pomace Oil Contains Green Colorant

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

CRAFT BEER

• Beer, Pot and the Government

JUST CAN’T MAKE STUFF LIKE THIS UP

• Firefighter puts out 18-wheeler with beer