TODAY'S TOP NEWS

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Chateau Angelus 2008 Falls to Two-Month Low of $2,500 on Liv-Ex
• Tracing Bordeaux’s Boom
• Top Burgundy Winemakers Will Testify Against Alleged Counterfeiter

HEALTH

• Middle class wine drinkers are worst abusers

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine tasting is BS
• The Wine Snob: an endangered species?
• Sommeliers Open Their Own Restaurants
• Rosé rising
• Putting the Variety in Varietals
• Aussies raise a glass to alternative wine varieties
• Vivier On Patience, Terroir & Vine Age

MEDIA MATTERS

• Now He Likes The 100-Point System
• Top 10 wines in the US press

OH CANADA!

• BC Liquor Licensing Boss Leaving LCLB

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Regional Identity in Specialization
• AZ: Why Arizona Wine?
• NY: Sheldrake Point’s Madill Joins Team at Red Newt Cellars Too
• NY: Wine trails part of state tourism plan
• NY: Everybody's Talkin' About Finger Lakes Wine
• WA: Spokane team to design, construct Wine Science Center
• WA: Free IPM Supplies

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ACADEMIA

• UC Davis, LEEDing the way to a brighter future

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Online Tool Calculates Benefits Of Irrigation Upgrade
• Wine barrel packaging reinvented

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Vineyard celebrates 150 years since first planting

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Burgundy moves its Asia office from Singapore to Hong Kong

LATIN AMERICA

• Ranking Argentine exports by variety

SOUTH AFRICA

• Extreme Wine South Africa: VinPro Information Day 2014

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Nigeria’s thirst for Champagne explodes (anyone hurt in the blast?)

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The bottomless barrel of wine education

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Oil Assays May Help Assure Authenticity

NEWS FETCH'S FAVORITE SONG TODAY:

While creating this issue, I liked this song best: She Will Be Loved By Maroon 5.

TODAY'S FEATURED WINE

As always, SavvyTaste.Com has my full description and opinion of this wine: Lewis Perdue's Rating of Bodegas y Vinedos Pascual Toso: Malbec: Argentina-Mendoza: Estate Bottled: 2011: Argentina

This has herbs, chocolate and caramel backed by some assertive tannins and structure. Forward. Not shy, closed in and retiring like the 2010.