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May 22, 2013	TOP NEWS China to probe EU wine dumping Winemakers must do more to stop counterfeiting What's in millennials' wallets? Fewer credit cards Coping with brand management: Diageo's story Red Blotch Research Funded By American Vineyard Fdn News Fetch Expanding, Seeks Editorial, Ad Sales Staff CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Investment group buys Napa Ritz, JV Wine sites Shannon Ridge Wine Sales Up 42% Pali Wine Secures Long-Term Sta. Rita Hills Vineyard Lease Sonoma Co. visitor spending rises 9% The Inexorable Rise Of Sonoma Wines Earliest History of Grape Growing in Suisun Valley Ongoing wave of ag metal theft prompts further legislation INVESTING & AUCTIONS Acker Merrall's $5 Million Anniversary Sale Liv-ex: Super Seconds aim too high Older Bordeaux Vintages May Follow 2012 Wines Lower Ausone, Cheval Blanc, Cos d’Estournel release below 2011 price Jolie Gems, Warhol, Wine Lure Billionaires to Hong Kong Why Aren't 2012 Bordeaux Futures Selling? MATTERS OF TASTE Terroir: A Million Years In The Making Women for WineSense Partners With Women's Wine Competition Uruguay groomed for UK wine stardom Is Making Vegan Wine Difficult? SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH Ad platform targets mobile users by scouring social media Why Brands are Getting it Wrong in Social Media Three Tips in Google Analytics ALCOHOL REGULATION Lowering the blood alcohol level to .05 is not the answer TTB Alcohol ad rules apply to all social media OH CANADA! Canadian wine must seize more opportunities at intl competitions U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS Spotted Wing Drosophila Fly Populations Mount In Pacific NW TN: Wine bill gains new ground AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS Detectives talk about preventing large crop thefts Aphid Menace In Fruit Orchards May Be Halted By Flowers EUROPE & THE UK UK wine retailer First Quench in $242 mln pension risk deal Brazil aims to grow wine exports to the UK by 300% Blandy’s buys first vineyards Chinese brands seek acceptance at LIWF Consolidation on the horizon for English sparkling wine Supermarket sales warp UK wine data AUSTRALIA Winery's expansion a boost for Griffith NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE A Perfect Pairing: Crime Fiction And Wine Minerality in wine. What is it? If You Were King ... Do’s and dont’s – an update **Sponsored Link: Maverick Winemakers and the Rebirth of Malbec OLIVE OIL** Olive oil and nuts make you smarter Europe’s New Olive Oil Law Seen as Meddling

May 21, 2013	TOP NEWS Serve a Minor, Lose Your Winery in One Sale New wine group eyes global growth Winegrowers Face Pesticide Danger Winery Gains & Losses As Consumers Trade Down Restaurant sales at all-time highs Aussie Wine Sales to UK Top Billion Pounds Ag Land Prices Plateauing? What Will The Affordable Care Act Mean To Agriculture? State Wine Excise Tax Map, 2013 CALIFORNIA BRIEFS 2013 For Winegrapes looking a lot like 2012? Gov. Brown orders streamlining of water transfers North Coast vintners find different courses for growth Top DTC Companies Offer Seminar at Sonoma State Lafitte , Anders-Lane Trade Legal Punches Over Payment, Cork Quality Interview, Chuck Wagner of Caymus, Pt. 2 Fire damages winery near Reedley Tannat vines take root in Paso INVESTING Bottled Asset Fund Buys Biondi-Santi Collection HEALTH Calorie-focused marketing more effective than health for wine Consumers pushing for calorie labeling MARKETING & SALES Wine producers need to rethink bottle sizes Is This the Beginning of Juice Box Wine? Shippers need to convince trade of bulk wine benefits 11 Top Wine Drinking Countries Barefoot’s Houlihan and Harvey Disrupted Wine Industry (Audio) Trade needs to watch sweet tooth trend MEDIA MATTERS 2013 Wine Blog Awards Finalists Announced Wine Blogs Are a Massive Circle Jerk At Last—A Blog With Real Tasting Notes MATTERS OF TASTE Oenophiles at Loggerheads Three new Masters of Wine announced Judge, jury and wine executioner How the RAW Wine Fair took me back in time. OH CANADA! Toasting Niagara's robust wine tourism 2012 BDO BC Wine Grape Crop Report Bulgaria Launches Export of Mavrud Wines to Canada U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS MI: Legislature Allows Beer, Wine Sales In Capitol MI: Farmers' markets take a step toward adding wine sales NY: Finger Lakes gaining ground at home WA: Effluent treatment project designed to be attractive to wineries AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS Is Making Vegan Wine Difficult? Natural = actively faulty wines Could Drones Revolutionize Agriculture? EUROPE & THE UK No Wine Tax in Pipeline: French Minister Tim Atkin MW Reports On the U.K. Wine Industry Disease-resistant hybrids make waves in Italy Leaf Thieves Target Chateau Musar DOWN UNDER NZ: Wine industry 'has turned the corner' OZ: Chinese Wines imported into Australia OZ: Chinese will end up renting Australia ASIA & PACIFIC RIM Tokyo Calling! Shanghai-based importer and distributor for sale LATIN AMERICA Colombia: a market with great potential NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built US #1 Wine Brand Forget about lattes. How much is your booze habit costing you? Wine and Cola? It Works Wine Grapes Aged for Centuries Wine Crates As Objets d'Art OLIVE OIL Olive Groves and Fracking Olive Oil Beneficial for Elderly New Farm Bill Includes Olive Oil Controls

May 20, 2013	TOP NEWS St. Louis Fed Finds Q1 Farm Income Higher Than Expected The Price/Label Stigma Of "Organic" Is Your Tasting Room Successful? Missouri Senate Nixes Franchise Bill Vote Specialty Crops: Momentum in House Ag Committee Farm Bill Caymus Bold Pinot Bet Pays Off MANAGEMENT When Success Means Being Turned Down by the Bank Days of wine & grosses VinoVisit.com Secures $1 Million in Funding MEDIA MATTERS Wine Advocate introduces new terms for the trade Trade-Only Subs From Wine Advocate — All It Seems, And Less Attrition in the wine blog world CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Wine business tackles climate, erosion policies Copia Offices hit a roadblock Wine fundraiser to bring thousands to Napa Valley Napa Valley Auction Social Media Crew Bottlerock a Boon to Wineries ALCOHOL REGULATION .05 vs. .08? DUI Level: Our lifestyle is threatened Wine Industry Finally Responds To Lower DUI Level Proposal. (Nope. Not Yet.) DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION How screwed up is three-tier? Plenty, as Missouri can attest INVESTING & AUCTIONS Bordeaux 2012 Futures: Grab Pomerols, Mouton, Forget Rest Liv-Ex: Spotlight on Eglise Clinet MATTERS OF TASTE Chapoutier: ‘Bring water back into wine’ New appreciation for Alexander Valley Cabernets What is a Parkerized wine? Are You Drinking An Authentic Wine ? Whiter than White The Nature of Natural Wine Oregon Chard: Rare, Weird and Exciting OH CANADA! Quebec’s 30-year-old wine industry is finally growing Wine Law Reform, Privatization, Social Media U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS Researchers Don't 'Wine' About The Cold, Their Grapes Thrive NPR Airs Spot on U.MN “Northern Grapes” on Morning Edition OK: Grocery Store Wine Proposal Being Renewed OR: Wine License Plate Sales Top 6,000 Mark TX: Voters Go to Polls to Modernize Liquor Laws WA: Underage wine students can now taste subject WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY How climate change is transforming reality AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS Court clears the way for genetically modified alfalfa EUROPE & THE UK Bleak Outlook For UK Wine Scene Sales of wine over £7 up 16% in UK Bordeaux and Japan – Recapturing the Market DOWN UNDER OZ: Grape exports to China take off ASIA & PACIFIC RIM Wine Consumption Trends: Bellwether For The Chinese Consumer Market NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE In a parallel universe The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Valdobbiadene The 18 Noble Grapes Wine Challenge OLIVE OIL Lucero Olive Oil expands to Oregon Storm in a Dipping Bowl Over Europe’s Olive Oil Rule

May 17, 2013	TOP NEWS Spirit Sales Outpace Wine and Beer Restaurant sales up in April Environmentalists Slam New Fed Fracking Rules Study says Gen Y shoppers hiding in plain sight Another UK £4.5m wine fraud China Buyers snapping-up one French chateau per month Why a PE firm is playing in the Willamette Valley wine grab Northwest Acquisitions Heat Up CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Coors Wine Anyone? Napa County says winery suits are not a crackdown The South Will Rise Again—Beware The Santa Rita Hills Water group blasts Delta Plan PRIVATIZATION Facts Contradict Claims of Liquor Monopoly Supporters PA Senate Narrows Privatization Focus DRUNK DRIVING LIMITS How to Measure Drunken Driving Proposal To Reduce Legal Driving Limit To 0.05% BAC Attracts Wide-Ranging Opposition MADD: Lowering DUI LIMIT Not Best Way to Stop Drunk Driving Wine Industry Responds To Lowered DUI Limit. (Oops! Sorry. There should be an article here, but the industry is still MIA on this issue.) THE FARM BILL Senate Committee Support of Specialty Crops In Farm Bill Stabenow Outlines Plan Forward For Senate Farm Bill PUBLIC COMPANIES Diageo Seeks Turkey Drink Limit Balance After Mey Icki Purchase Anatomy of the 10-K INVESTING & AUCTIONS Liv-Ex: Market forces Stop Whining About Bordeaux Futures (Drink Something Else) MARKETING & SALES Is Fetzer's Zipz glass the answer for portable wine? Sheraton Extends Specialty Wine Program Burgundy's Ponsot Adopts In-Case Trackers SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH Social Media No-No: Amy’s vs. The Entire Internet The Elements of a Perfect Facebook Contest App: INFOGRAPHIC Apps that bridge old world winemakers and younger drinkers TTB GUIDELINES ON SOCIAL MEDIA Legal Analysis: New TTB Guidelines on Social Media and Alcohol Beverage Advertising More On TTB's new social media rules MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT Will Immigration Reform Help Immigrant Farm Workers? MEDIA MATTERS Wine In 140 Characters or Less Charm School Dropouts at Wine Tastings Sideways author releases Pinot Noir Washington Post joins the Wine Club craze MATTERS OF TASTE The Feiring Squad Misses The Rapture Wanted: Vineyard Owners with a Sense of Daring What's the best wine ? Whatever wine you like. OH CANADA! Canadian wineries finding focus New rules for liquor sales, and more, in Saskatchewan U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS 2013 International Cold Climate Wine Competition Registration Opens NC: Kinkead Ridge Winery is for sale AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS Can native plants fight vineyard pests? EUROPE & THE UK French appellation wines top previous export records in 2012 Selfridges expands wine store and overhauls range 1855 – a symbol of Bordeaux wines that needs further protection Italian Wine: Land of Plenty France – wine industry warns that ‘sin taxes’ would undermine country’s image DOWN UNDER OZ: Push behind Aussie Reisling OLIVE OIL EU to ban reusable olive oil bottles in eateries Forget the IRS — There’s an Olive-Oil Scandal Afoot

May 16, 2013	TOP NEWS Bill Hambrecht: Billionaire’s Cash Flow Issues Have Broad Impacts Kosher Wine Company Victimized by Charity Extortion Plot TTB Says Social Media Must Comply With All Regulatory Ad Requirements Napa's Goosecross Cellars Bought By Colo Firm House Ag Committee Passes 2013 Farm Bill Senate Passes Water Resources Development Act Parker slams concept of ‘Parkerisation’ Climate Change Prompts Renewed Interest In Native Missouri Grapes Tractor Fire destroys Lake Chelan winery CALIFORNIA BRIEFS UC Davis Tops Ranking For World's Best Ag Colleges Calif Winery Ads Pair With Sex, Drugs and More Sex Luna Vineyards Hires Trade-Focused Sales Team DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION Perpetual Problems Plague PLCB INVESTING & AUCTIONS Rare Italian wines to be auctioned in HK Bordeaux 2012: Still waiting for big names Richemont Chairman Rupert to Take Sabbatical After 25 Years ALCOHOL REGULATION Impact of Lower DUI Levels on Wine Lovers The federal government's three-drink limit Wineries need to label alcohol percentage accurately MARKETING & SALES Sainsbury's to focus on lighter-style wines Top 5 of the most exported brands and wineries in United States MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT Five things to consider when writing your export strategy Farm Bureau Says Health Tax Will Hurt Small Business Employees Senate committee to consider ag workers, E-verify next week MEDIA MATTERS Sifting Through the Wine Media: A Slog With Rewards MATTERS OF TASTEHelp! I’ve Fallen and Can’t Get Up—The Natural Wine Edition Irony In Uruguay Nose in the nooze When Terroir Was a Dirty Word Nebbiolo fetishization Alexander Valley, here I come! Photos from a Tasting at Shake Ridge Vineyard, Amador U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS OR: Chair of Oregon liquor agency resigns AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS Investor Groups Buys Almond Equipment Icon EUROPE & THE UK Italy is “Open for Business” Chase to make biodynamic wine and vermouth in Provence Hillebrand and Accolade sign major deal Merchant declares Bordeaux 2012 overpriced and skips vintage UK Merchant gives private buyers chance to sell at market price ASIA & PACIFIC RIM China wine portfolios: CWS adds Inner Mongolia’s Chateau Hansen LATIN AMERICA Wine in a sombrero? AROUND THE GLOBE Jordan: an unlikely winery visit NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE 5 Ways to Demystify Bubbly The World in Wine – INFOGRAPHIC

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