NEWS FETCH – DECEMBER 5, 2012

TOP NEWS

• 10% jump predicted in Calif wine grape harvest
• More Than  60% of Calif farmers report labor shortages
• How Silicon Valley Has Transformed The Wine Industry
• Wine Market Council Announces 2013 Consumer Research Conferences
• More political involvement urged for farmers
• Farming, wine and journalism: Drones go mainstream
• Thank Bird Droppings for Terroir?
• Show of solidarity saves French wine business from collapse

BRUNO-PACALYPSE

• Brunello Disaster Follow-Up: 62,600 Liters Lost
• 10 million GBP of Tuscan wine poured away in ‘Mafia-style’ attack
• Soldera update: making sense of the unfathomable

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Good news for Napa growers
• Sonoma supervisors approve controversial winery
• Truckers cautioned about new air pollution rules

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• The Penn LCB’s conflict
• Penn Promotes Calif Wine, Local Wineries Puzzled
• PA: LCB needs to brand itself with Keystone specialties

PUBLIC COMPANIES, INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Brown-Forman: Dividend Aristocrat Raises Yield 9.3%,
• Delegat’s sees small lift in annual earnings, warns on strong currency
• Diageo says would be interested in buying out Ketel One
• A Quick Look At Diageo’s EPS Forecasts
• Cult Wines Ltd rejects WIA

HEALTH & ALCOHOL REGULATION

• Can red wine help stop bowel cancer?
• Red wine every day ‘can cut bowel cancer risk’
• VA: SCOTUS’s Health Ruling Should Change 4th Circuit’s Mind on Alcohol Ad Ban

SOCIAL MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY

• LG patents smart kiosk for wine cellars, creates a sommelier’s best friend
• Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant Expands Corporate Team
• Winestyr, A Craft Booze Marketplace, Offers Wine “Playlists” To Help You Choose
• Social Media: PR’s Entrée to Marketing’s “Big Idea”

MARKETING & SALES

• Beverage Trade Network Launches BTN Wine 360 for wineries
• Paul Grieco on the Next Big Thing
• Casellas’ wine tale still in the making
• Dimensions and rationalization of Prosecco’s success
• Champagne Malard presents ‘Ladystyle’

MANAGEMENT

• The Selfish Side of Philanthropy
• Ethics: A bottle of wine appears on your desk. What do you do?
• Parties bring risk of excess
• Lessons From a Wine Entrepreneur
• Wineries, Who Is In Your Compliance Corner?

MEDIA MATTERS

• Think Like a Newsroom: 4 Tips For Creating Content That Counts

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How Kermit Lynch Taught Americans How To Drink Wine
• The Food Critic Who Top Chefs Love the Most Is?
• Everything I know about tasting, I learned from Michael Broadbent

OH CANADA!

• Wine producers lobby for private stores in Ontario

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Wine regions dodged Superstorm Sandy
• IL: Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant Expands Corporate Team
• MD: Red Heifer gives western Maryland a second winery

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Australian Pruning Trial Delays Grape Harvest By Up To Three Weeks

EUROPE

• German harvest – ‘broad selection of first-class wines’
• Wine Business Innovation Summit

THE UK

• Wine and spirit sales volumes down, says WSTA report

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Winery purchase boost for Tohu

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Increase in the number of transaction platforms for imported wine

LATIN AMERICA

• Uruguay: The Next Big Thing
• Wines of Chile: Cachapoal Valley

SOUTH AFRICA

• Western Cape Wineland Workers Fired Up For Further Strikes
• Wine tourism is the way forward for the Western Cape

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Farmers go Gangnam Style
• Laws: shipping wine gifts hard, but not impossible
• Wine Myths That Need Shattering
• ‘Inventing Wine’: The History Of A Very Vintage Beverage
• Parallel Winery Brings A Love for Skiing and Wine to a Common Intersection

OLIVE OIL

• Book Review: Unusual Uses for Olive Oil