TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Wine industry must grapple with big health care, tax, estate changes
• Vineyard appellation value can prune tax bill

• Doctor Says Wine Makes You Ugly

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Gregutt: Why making wine is making me a better critic
• Are vineyard designates better than blended wines?
• The accidental sommelier
• The Natural Wine Market in New York
• The Physics of The Champagne POP!
• Gaglioppo: unique and profound wines from Calabria

OH CANADA!

• What we can learn about open markets from wine and wheat

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Concha Y Toro Winery Inc Stock Downgraded

INVESTING & AUCTIONS

• Crillon Auction Raises $7.8 Million, Six Times Estimate

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MI: Alcohol Distributors Resist Booze Law Reforms
• OR: Pinot pioneers
• TX: Arlington awaiting word on whether wine sales petitions are valid
• VA: Tianjin Commodity Exchange Signs 5-Yr Deal to Import Wine from Virginia Winery

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AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• The Beauty of Frost Protection
• We Are Losing Prime Farmland
• Old Records, New Bees Result In Major Study For Montana Ecologist

EUROPE & THE UK

• de Bouard and Casteja named in Saint Emilion legal challenge
• Maison Giraud urges Champagne industry to use local oak

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Value Wine Buying Tips for Savvy Consumers
• Randall Grahm… Dancing To A Different Doon
• The Weird and Wild Wine-Drinking Games of History

NEWS FETCH'S FAVORITE SONG TODAY:

While creating this issue, I liked this song best: Hope & Run By The Trews.

TODAY'S FEATURED WINE

As always, SavvyTaste.Com has my full description and opinion of this wine: Lewis Perdue's Rating of Conde Francesco Condello: Sangiovese: Romagna: Superiore: 2010: Italy

Once this opens up, it's a formidable Sangiovese with intense fruit and tannins. Ain't no shy wall flower.