TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Auction Napa Valley Sells Out in Record Time...
• Napa’s Underrated Appellation Shows Off Its Chops
• California opens trade and investment office in China
• California Water Update
• Duarte Nursery Celebrates Friends Day
• Rodney Strong Hires Erica Stevens as Director of Marketing

• Diageo Deal With United Spirits In Jeopardy
• Constellation Touts Share Gains Across Wine, Spirits And Beer

HEALTH

• Some drinking tied to longer life post-breast cancer
• Drinkaware web visitors soar after warning people that they drink more than they think

MARKETING & SALES

• Amazon.com adds Texas to its Amazon Wine program
• Burgeoning Bottle Shop Segment Offers “New Generation” In Beer Retailing
• Single-Serve Format for Fine Wines
• Dehydration: the new way to age wine
• Adult-only restaurant visits on the rise

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• WineSimple Introduces New App to Benefit Wine Retailers and Consumers
• 5 Ways to Improve Your Wine Facebook Marketing with a Cover Photo
• Three Rules for Creating Your Brand’s Digital Experience

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Globalization Ruining Wine Styles?
• A Capricious Wine With a Lot of Range
• Leading Man of Burgundy Puts Down His Glass
• Fine Powder on Mount Veeder

WOMEN IN WINE

• Women winemakers in Oregon talk of inspiration, sexism
• Aussie women pushing open the cellar door
• Wine Goddess wants liquor tax break
• Portugal: Women of wine impress

MEDIA MATTERS

• Gregutt's opening farewell
• Top 10 wines in the US press

POLITICS & FARM POLICY

• EPA Administrator Nominee Fields Questions From Ag Interests
• Presidential Budget Keeps USDA Funding Steady
• Farm Policy Facts Compiles Top 10 Ag Videos
• Angry US farmers say proposed food aid changes could help their competitors

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Cranky Recruiter: Just tell me what you are making.

OH CANADA!

• B.C. Wine Law still Riddled with Complication
• Canada: A nation of beer drinkers turns increasingly to wine

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• KY: State of the Grape at Kentucky Wineries
• NY: St. James Winery Gets State License to Sell Wine
• NY: Finger Lakes Wine Country's CEO resigns
• OR: State approves wine in growlers
• TX: Texas wine -- 10 years after

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WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Whole Foods To Open Nation’s First Commercial-Scale Rooftop Greenhouse
• OSU scientists turn wine-making waste into biodegradable products
• Scania seeks to promote grape-based biofuels

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Double digit sales hike in March for wine and spirits
• Vinitaly – visitor numbers up by 6 percent
• UK: Imports outpacing domestic
• Another Italian Porn Star Launches A Wine
• Burgundy’s Louis Bouillot unveils ambitious expansion plans
• Casca Wines Battles To Save Ramisco
• KWV set for major UK push
• Morale high amongst French independent growers
• Sopexa to roll out varietal Vin de France campaigns in China and Canada

DOWN UNDER

• Dunleavy family regains control of Te Motu
• OZ: Coles tells small wineries to ‘work with us’
• NZ: EIT Student Wins Major Viticultural Award

LATIN AMERICA

• Brazil – exciting times for wine

OLIVE OIL

• Temecula Olive Oil Company announces new partnership, increased production
• Emerging Markets Embrace Olive Oil

NEWS FETCH'S FAVORITE SONG TODAY:

While creating this issue, I liked this song best: Gotta Have Rock And Roll By Heartless Bastards.

TODAY'S FEATURED WINE

As always, SavvyTaste.Com has my full description and opinion of this wine: Lewis Perdue's Rating of Ramos Torres: Tempranillo: Paso Robles California: Giacone Vineyard: 2009: United States

Tasty right out of the bottle, this opens up in the glass to dark chocolate with a hint of pomegranate (or some other red fruit I can't place, but not cherries or raspberries). This is more tannic and astringent than the other Ramos Torres wines I sampled last week, but still a very, very nice wine that probably should age a bit longer.