TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Liquor Privatization No Threat to Safety
• PA: Senate leader urges focus to expand beyond liquor plans

• 2003 Bordeaux: tales from the strip club
• Buyers Snap Up Wine From The 'Best Restaurant In The World'

• Some States Want to Ease Alcohol Restrictions to Raise Tax Revenues

MARKETING & SALES

• The Brands Behind Italian Bubbly’s Double-Digit Gains
• Juice boxes grow up with the kids
• Growing Opposition to Dot Wine
• New Keg System Introduced

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• The Imminent Shift from Social to Digital Engagement
• Getting Started With Website Accessibility

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Sauternes – Ain’t Nobody Got Time Fo’ Dat!
• Get Out Your Rulers Men, We are Measuring Our Wines
• Are Men Afraid of Wine? (from the archives)

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY wine in the UK: Progress and Hurdles
• OR: Second large vineyard sold in Polk County

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• EU Bans Neonicotinoids Despite Members’ Split Vote
• Smart Fog Intros New Winery Humidification System
• China: A Game Changer For Walnuts

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EUROPE & THE UK

• French presidential palace trims wine cellar

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Call for caution on grape land claims

OLIVE OIL

• South African Olive Oil Producers Seek Reforms
• California Proposes Olive Oil Commission

NEWS FETCH'S FAVORITE SONG TODAY:

While creating this issue, I liked this song best: Sleep Alone By Two Door Cinema Club.

TODAY'S FEATURED WINE

As always, SavvyTaste.Com has my full description and opinion of this wine: Lewis Perdue's Rating of Ritual Wines: Rhone Blend/Red Wine: Napa Valley: Ritual: 2010: United States

Just because somebody didn't make much wine doesn't make the wine any better. Relic Wines says they made 18 barrels of this wine and it's on allocation. Bully for them.

This is a decent Rhone blend that's worth no more than $20 per bottle.

Selling it for $50 like they are is counting on the greater fool theory.

And selling a single glass of it for $24 as Yountville's Jeanty is doing is simply a rip-off.

This is a well-made, austere, French style blend in one of the styles found in The Southern Rhone.

Mourvedre, Grenache, Carignane, Syrah and Petit Sirah. The country pate pictured above was well worth the price. The wine: not so much.