NEWSFETCH – January 24, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Yellow Tail Maker Ambushed By High Aussie $
• Starbucks expanding beer, wine sales this year
• CDC: If You Drink Enough to Enjoy It, You’ve Had Too Much
• Red Flag for Merlot Supply?
• Lafite Rothschild sold on the cheap in Chinese scam
• Global Wine Partners Adds Former Premier Pacific Vineyards Mgr Dir As SrVP
• Industry Vet Mark Chandler Opens Business, Announces First Client
• Water debate renewed after Fresno State report
• Winestyr Is Latest Daily-Deal Wine Site
• Wine Marketing More Than a Message
• Experts Discuss Laws Regulating Alcoholic Beverages
• Big Alcohol Dominates Alcohol Regulator Meeting
• Chestnut Wood as an Alternative to Oak

PUBLIC COMPANIES & INVESTING

• CEDC Signs 5-year Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Beam in Poland
• Hosken Says It Won’t Raise Offer for KWV
• Liv-ex Claret Chip crosses paths with Fine Wine 50
• TWIF predicts Liv-ex 100 to rise in 2012
• Brazil’s bottle redesign cuts carbon emissions at Diageo

HEALTH

• Resveratrol Redux: The Bad and the Good
• Why a drink a day may keep the doctor away
• New Drug Claims to Keep You Sober, No Matter How Much You’ve Had to Drink.
• Both alcohol and red wine polyphenols linked to decreased CVD risk

MEDIA MATTERS

• Bordeaux Bashing, justified or sensationalistic?
• Writer Wins $20K Family Reunion Prize

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Lower Alcohol Wines and Why We Want Them
• Drink Natural Wine—Or Get a Bad Rash

WATER & SUSTAINABILITY

• ‘Green’ wine label paper is developed
• Reconciling cities with water scarcity
• Using Ingenuity to Combat Global Water Crisis
• Water agencies brawl over ‘use it or lose it’ rule

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Little North Bay wineries on the rise
• Riverbench hires new winemaker

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• ID: GOP group seeks to privatize liquor sales
• OH: JobsOhio Gets into the Liquor Business
• NC: Get all the dirt on growing grapes

EUROPE & THE UK

• Fake booze on the rise in Ireland
• Sales drop at Vranken-Pommery Monopole
• The Portman Group calls for final responses to alcohol consultation
• Specialists put out their judgment on 2010 Burgundy
• Roederer becomes Champagne’s biggest in biodynamics

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Frost disaster averted as wind machines kick in
• OZ: European wine prices plunge

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Red Wine & Shower After Skiing Across Antarctica
• New movie lifts lid on Master Sommeliers
• 25,000-year-old cave paintings and Burgundy wine bid for World Heritage status
• Margrit Mondavi to publish ‘frank’ memoir
• Where wine and finance meet
• Is Petite Sirah, that Special Black Opal of the Wine World?