NEWS FETCH – NOVEMBER 26, 2012

TOP NEWS

• Calif Winery president denies pot trafficking link
• David Taub, Introduced Pinot Grigio to US, Dies at 72
• Short wine supplies will lead to flexibility on provenance
• Donum buys Russian River vineyard
• Pot growers behind rash of winery solar thefts?
• ‘Hidden gem’ countries present opportunities for wine firms
• Restaurant operators: Nov sales to hold steady
• Amazon may open second Central Valley facility
• Winery? Tasting Room? A bureaucratic morass
• Transport company sued over $2M wine shipment

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• New guide to Spanish for the wine industry
• Expo speakers to cover viticulture, marketing, production, direct sales
• Coppola’s transformation of Rubicon to Inglenook complete
• Smithsonian honors Grgich in new exhibit

OH CANADA!

• Nova Scotia Introduces Free My Grapes Bill
• Canadians moving to more wine drinking
• Canadians increasingly reach for the domestic wines
• Canada Uncorks Export Funding
• Wine fans would be able to import wine under new law

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Another wine investment company goes bankrupt
• Time for serious fine wine companies to stand up and be counted?
• Right Bank wines lose out at auction
• Hospices de Beaune auction sees record sales
• Romanee-Conti, Hirst’s Guitar Lead Hong Kong Auctions
• Barriques d’Or auction breaks record for second year

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• UK Public ‘sceptical’ about minimum alcohol pricing

MARKETING & SALES

• Cheap wine under threat due to poor harvests
• How to Reach the 77% of Internet Users in the Blogosphere
• Top brands favor bag-in-box dispensing savings
• A More Complete View of the Marketplace
• Screw-cap to become mainstream force in US in 5-10 years’ time

MANAGEMENT

• How Gary Vaynerchuk Went from ‘America’s Wine Guy’ to Business Expert
• Business Unconventional Radio Interview
• Unity in the wine world

MEDIA MATTERS

• Restaurateurs name and shame fake online reviewers
• Wine writer ‘not dead’
• On Andrew Jefford’s famous speech at the bloggers’ conference
• EWBC: digital conversation now embraced by mainstream wine communicators
• EWBC–the natural wine edition

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Listen Carefully: Tips from a Wine ‘Therapist’
• A post-Thanksgiving musing
• Turkish Delights

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Eastern Winery Exposition Expands
• IA: Symposium to focus on drought effects
• KY: Alcohol regulatory reform going flat?
• OK: Oklahomans demand many wines
• OR: 2012 Harvest is Done – Can We Predict Pinot Noir Quality?
• OR: Pinot Noir is one of Oregon’s great, and profitable, blessings
• PA: State to add research viticulturalist
• TX: The Winemaker that Mark Penna Just Never Ran Off
• WA: Prosser grape grower takes chance on winemaking

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Are your wine additives the real thing?
• The Importance of Nitrogen Availability in Grape Must During Biodynamic Vinification
• Common Sense Or Nonsense? The Biodynamic Debate Continues

EUROPE

• Price wars and imports threaten to burst Veuve’s bubble
• French Growers Call For Removal of Trade Barriers
• Côtes du Rhône increases levies to boost promotional activity
• European Planting Puzzle Still to be Solved
• Cos d’Estournel names Prats’ replacement
• Burgundy: growers triumph over challenging vintage

THE UK

• Will London Host the Bordeaux Wine Festival?
• Welsh sparkling wine beats top champagnes to win world wine award
• Cape Heritage trebles volume growth

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Chill wipes out grapes
• NZ: It has been a tough year for many in the wine industry.
• OZ: Wine Spin-off Could Decant Penfolds True Value

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chianti’s cockerel lucky in China
• Going with the flow of Indonesia’s wine affair
• Australian wines overflow at Chinese tables

LATIN AMERICA

• Nicolás Catena Zapata: “We should constantly investigate the secrets of Mendoza terroir”

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Hearing Wine, Tasting Music
• A question of etiquette: dining with abstainers

OLIVE OIL

• Sonoma County’s olive harvest under way
• More farmers hand over harvests to machines
• ‘The olive oil is in my blood’
• Olive and Olive Oil Spinoffs in the Pipeline