NEWSFETCH - September 8, 2010

Wine Industry Trend? Innovative Small Biz Financing
Showtime Signs Wine Licensing Deal With Votto Vines
California water bank sued as wells go dry
Foster’s Gains After Rejecting $2.5 Billion Wine Bid (Scroll down for more Fosters Coverage)
Concha y Toro Increases Wine Exports Jump 17%
China a promising organic wine market
Credit card usage hits all-time low
California’s next one million acre-feet [...]

NEWSFETCH - September 7, 2010

Higher Priced Wines Dominate August Off-Premise Sales: WII Original

Little Orphan Winery: For Sale (Again! Still!): WII Original

Pernod Ricard’s Wine Business Not Up For Sale -CFO
Pernod Ekes Out a Profit
Legal View: Agreement Between Australia and the EC on Wine Trade
Global Wine & Wine Label Market & Technology Review
US wine market to mark a value of $33.5 [...]

NEWSFETCH - September 6, 2010

Calif 2010 Wine Grape Crush estimated at 3.5 Mln Tons, down 6%
SF Considers Per-Drink Alcohol Tax
CA Farm Revenues Down For 2009
Pernod eyes global drinks market recovery
The Liquid rush of global wine consumption
Sonoma wine auction bounces back
Solano County Backyard Fruit To Be Removed in Grape Moth Fight
Gallo’s Bear Flag Wine rejects blend trend
Sonoma Valley wineries celebrate [...]

NEWSFETCH - September 3, 2010

Australia Adopts EU’s Geographical Indicator System
Foster’s demerger rocked as CFO quits
Spurred by a son’s schizophrenia, Staglins raise millions for mental health
Turrentine: Recent Wine and Grape Sales
Jean-Dominique Comolli resigns from Pernod Ricard Board
Unified Wine & Grape Symposium set for January
UK alcohol consumption sees sharpest drop since 1948
WA: State wrongly says privatized booze would hurt enforcement
MD: Alcohol [...]

Whopper Correction

Diageo does not own Burger King as mentioned in a recent News Fetch headline.

NEWSFETCH - September 2, 2010

Wine Group Sues Diageo Over Wine-Based Tea
Nielsen: Global Strategies Consumers Use for Saving Money
Why sin taxes don’t work
Andrew Kandanes Dies: Famed Rock Drummer & Vintage Wine Estates Exec
Sonoma Wine label controversy. What camp are you in?
Whopper Deal: $4 Billion for Diageo’s Burger King
QR Codes Help Consumers Shop for Wine
Online tannin gauge released
FTC Paper Says Wine [...]

NEWSFETCH - September 1, 2010

Whopper, Whopper - Diageo Selling Burger King?
California Crop Weather: Harvests continue
Zombie Mags: Gourmet Returns To Print
Brown-Forman Q1 Profit Declines 8%, Yet Confirms FY11 View
Sonoma Auction Changes Good For Business
Pernod Ricard: completion of the sale of the shares in Ambrosio Velasco
Cool temps leave questions for Central Valley wine crop
Coast to coast, weather keeps growers guessing
Protecting [...]

NEWSFETCH - August 31, 2010

Restaurant Outlook Remained Uncertain in July
Bordeaux harvest starts with Carbonnieux after ‘roller-coaster’ growing season
Tax beers and wine more heavily whisky giant Diageo tells UK Treasury
Does drinking alcoholic beverages provide any benefit at all?
The Alcoholic Beverage Legal Environment Post-Granholm
Becker Named President of SVB Financial Group
Wine-making Israeli settler ready to uproot for peace
Highest-Priced Wines Grow Fastest
Why [...]

NEWSFETCH - August 30, 2010

Napa: settlers found a Shangri-La, then drained & boxed it
Backyard fruit removal set for Mendo EGVM
Alcoholic beverage tasting to come to Calif grocery stores?
Greenest wines? Vintners avoid heavy glass bottles
Desire to improve or preserve quality of life drives consumer purchases
Wiggins bill could help replenish farm funds
Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers?
Sonoma: One-two punch for [...]

NEWSFETCH - August 27, 2010

Bill in Calif. would help farmworkers form unions
Kirin to buyout wine unit Mercian in $127 mln deal
Lombardi Leaves Ascentia for Kosta Browne
Vineyard Worker Crash Death Prompts Federal Labor Probe
Best wine blogs awarded
Snooth’s Truth About Wine Prices (Infographic)
Turrentine - August 2010, Market Update: A Compelling Narrative (.pdf)
State to join Mendo moth fight
How Washington’s wine industry successfully [...]