NEWS FETCH – FEBRUARY 26, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Global Strategies for U.S. Wine
• Here Comes The Anti-Amazon Wine Law
• Crimson Wine Completes Spin-Off From Leucadia
• China’s COFCO to buy Barossa winery, market under Great Wall label
• Calif outlook indicates low water supply for ag
• Newest Diet Study: Good News – And A Caution
• Brunello Redefines Its U.S. Focus, Expands Into Smaller Markets
• Listening to Social Media Conversations: Invasion Of Privacy?
• USDA New Definition of ‘Rural’ Will Hurt Ag
• New Organic Herbicide For Western U.S.

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• The BDCP’s Hidden Agenda: Water for Fracking?
• Lake County Winery Assn announces 2013 board of directors
• Hope Family Wines promotes Samantha Taylor to Assistant Winemaker
• Women for WineSense Make Membership Drive Sensible

HEALTH

• Drink at Least 7 Glasses of Wine Each Week
• Alcohol damage costs the Canadian economy $14.6 billion
• 8 Percent of Men, 3 Percent of Women are Heavy Drinkers, Study Finds
• Today in Napa: Study ties cancer deaths to alcohol
• ‘It’s a poison’: Trend of inhaling alcohol vapors alarms doctors

PRIVATIZATION

• Senator blasts PLCB private label wine, booze
• PLCB members make a case for Pennsylvania state stores
• Fact Check: Liquor Privatization Polling & Profits

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Distell to bring low-alc wine to the Cape
• Brown-Forman Completes Redemption of 2014 Notes…

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Blatch to focus on Bordeaux’s ‘private cellars’ in new Christie’s role
• 121 World Records Set At NYC Wine Auction
• ‘Greatest ever’ Italian collection draws buyers
• Acker Merrall sells 94% Of Wine At First New York Auction

MARKETING & SALES

• How to Avoid Watering Down Your Brand
• House of Mandela wine launches in the US

MEDIA MATTERS

• Editor facing jail over Champagne story
• Will The Tasting Note Survive?
• Starting Anew at the New York Cork Report
• The evolution of wine criticism

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Cab clones? Who cares.
• The chaos of clone theory

OH CANADA!

• Falmouth boutique winery seeks to double production
• Cutting edge labs for food/wine research
• Canada: Wine trail north

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• IN: Wine businesses, consumption grow
• MA: alcohol tax cut hurt bottom line at N.H. state-owned liquor stores
• OR: Grapes, wine and money
• OR: Bill to allow wine ‘growler’ sales advances to House floor
• TN: Wine-in-supermarkets law heads to final decision
• WA: House approves new rules on liquor self-checkout
• WA: Syrah grows into staple of Washington’s red-wine industry

EUROPE & THE UK

• Perse Sells Share in Chateau Monbousquet
• Maison Cazes acquires new vineyard
• Loire exports hit double-digit growth

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: End of the line for cheap Kiwi win
• NZ: US Wine Drinkers Invest $120Kin Mom and Dad winemakers

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Do people in China equate wine with Penfolds?

SOUTH AFRICA

• Delaire Graff Estate: A Sparkling Gem In South Africa’s Wine Country

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Welcome to the Stuffed Winery Dog Diorama!
• Origins of the Concrete egg
• Conquering the Grape Divide: Boot Camp Style

OLIVE OIL

• Study boosts olive oil, nut diet

OVER-LONG, WANDERING HEADLINE OF THE DAY

• Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America Praises Reps. Roybal-Allard, Wolf and DeLauro for Introduction of “STOP Underage Drinking …