NEWS FETCH – October 28, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Chumash Try Feds To End Run SB County Vineyard Objections
• Treasury Wine Denies Plonk Debacle Wrongdoing
• How TWE litigation will play out Scroll down for more TWE
• Bra-Burning Feminists Drive Wine Sales
• Farmers Keep Borrowing As Loan Rates Stay Steady
• Disruptive Technologies: The Internet and Wine
• Sommelier Journal suspends publication
• Aussie Winery blooms with Chinese equity

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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Why No Sonoma County In Heimoff’s Golden Age?
• Trinchero Says Lodi expansion won’t affect Napa County wine jobs
• Santa Barbara County vineyard yields a winemaker’s harvest
• Napa Valley 2013 Harvest
• Paso Garagistes Build an Institution

TWE IN THE DOCK

• Class action launched against Treasury Wines
• Shareholders may sue Treasury Wine over US inventory impairment
• Treasury Wine faces class action over Plonk Problem

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Cos d’Estournel ’09 Drops to Two-Year Low
• 09 Lafite trails Latour

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Who needs those overpriced California wines?
• Do wine drinkers trade up?
• Cut-Throat Tactics In Hong Kong & China
• Naming your winery
• Wine biz’s inability to understand consumers prevents many from liking wine
• Dietitian video promotes California grapes

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How Social Data Changes Everything About Marketing
• Re-Evaluating the Value of Social Media
• 3 Social Media Lessons from “It’s the Great Pumpkin”
• WA State Wine Launches “The Recommendeuer” Campaign and iPad App

MEDIA MATTERS

• Use Sharp Headlines To Hook Readers – Or Else
• A personal view from the Digital Wine Communications Conference
• BTN To Launch Buyers Guide in January 2014

MATTERS OF TASTE

• An Italian Exodus
• Wine Myths Debunked
• Jancis Robinson MW backs formal wine education
• Excellence in Enotourism

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

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Creating, protecting wine trademarks
• Red tape redux

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MA: Picking the grape harvest, rain or shine
• PA: Wine production 5th in US
• VA: Local wine industry looks to Argentina
• WA: Small liquor stores struggle with taxes

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• 5 Ways Businesses Can Reduce “Sick” Call-Ins

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

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Suspected Pesticide Link To Bee Colony Collapse Stirs Action

• Understanding Wine Technology, 3rd Edition [Sponsored Link]

EUROPE & THE UK

• French Producers Stage Angry Protests Over Planned Eco-Tax
• Sauternes: 2013 a great year for rot
• Symington invests in land and brands
• Who killed English wine?

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: ‘Black frosts’ add to weird October weather
• OZ: Tax wine by alcohol content

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

LATIN AMERICA

• Alfredo Bartholomaus, South American Wine Ambassador

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Brady’s Bunches: Robert Hall Winery
• History of Wine Timeline (Infographic)

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