TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Liv-ex: First Growths show the way
• Champagne 2012 vintage report
• Wine Owners trading platform now live
• Wine Returns Say It's a Good Time to Be a Sommelier
• ’82 Bordeaux dominates Christie’s auction

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• eWinery Solutions Opens Oregon Office
• 4 Free Tools to Measure Your Instagram Success
• Fab Offers Online Wine Sales

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Which is more important for fine wine, terroir or technique?
• Does Minerality Exist? And What On Earth Does It Mean?

MEDIA MATTERS

• As magazines turn to a lifestyle focus, they need to preserve a serious purpose
• The Academic Wino Gets Blogger Scholarship
• Kodmur launches wine PR website

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Institutional Investor Meeting June 5

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Cool-climate viticulture
• NJ: From Garden State to Vineyard State
• NY: Growing jobs through wine, tourism
• NY: Viticulture growing Jobs in the Finger Lakes
• NY: Upstate becoming a must-stop for food tourists
• WA: Vintner targets quality wine at low price
• WA: Agritourism Growing in the Columbia Valley
• WA: WSU Tri-Cities wine center design unveiled

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Aussie Drone tackles weeds from the air
• Winerywise Workshops
• Washington Winegrape Industry Offers Scholarships
• Two Billion Pound Almond Crop In The Forecast
• Honey Bee Colony Decline Blamed On Multiple Factors

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EUROPE & THE UK

• Côtes de Bordeaux aims to double exports over next 5 years
• French Co-ops threatened by falling vine acreage
• UK: Beer duty cut boosts pub spending
• Minimum pricing legal challenge dismissed
• SpiritsEUROPE to appeal pricing ruling

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Wairarapa vineyard fined over worker injury

SOUTH AFRICA

• Women in Wine First for South Africa

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• 3 Days in Trento: Wine, Food and Relaxation without the Tourists
• The Life in Wine, a conversation with Randall Grahm
• 3 questions with wine guru Leslie Sbrocco
• Why the grapes are good - Napa Valley Register
• From Minnesota to Le Marche
• Dave Falchek, Empty Bottles blog

OLIVE OIL

• Spanish Olive Oil Gets €8 Million for New Promotional Campaigns
• Farmers Call for Probe Into Price Manipulation

NEWS FETCH'S FAVORITE SONG TODAY:

While creating this issue, I liked this song best: Diane Young By Vampire Weekend.

TODAY'S FEATURED WINE

As always, SavvyTaste.Com has my full description and opinion of this wine: Lewis Perdue's Rating of Stonehouse Vineyard & Winery: Tempranillo: Amador County-California: Estate Grown: 2010: United States

Herbs and spicy floral notes ride along on a strong structural backbone that develops into a gutsy enjoyable Tempranillo. Rock solid!