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Today's Featured Blog Postings for Tuesday, January 6th
Each day our editors monitor 50 wine industry blogs and select the most relevant, recent postings. A summary of each posting with a link to the blog is listed below.
Steve Heimoff
Wine industry faces "unpalatable truths" January 5th The Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald reported on New Year's Day on the "unpalatable truths" confronting the Australian wine industry, in this article entitled Wine industry grapples for new hook that has important implications for California's own wine industry.
REthink Wine Blog
Finding Optimism in this New Year: Trends and Opportunities January 5th Amid all of the news of economic downturn, I think it's important to call attention to some of the reasons for optimism for this coming year, and trends we can look to in ensuring it's a good year.

ShipCompliant
Kentucky On-Site Requirement Invalidated, but Questions Remain January 5th On December 24th, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed, in the Cherry Hill case, the judgment of the district court, invalidating the on-site purchase requirement.
Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog
Manipulating Musical Minds January 5th I learned something about subliminal manipulation of consumers recently while reading Parade Magazine. What I learned didn't surprise me. A study has show that if you play French music in a grocery store's wine department, folks buy more French wine. If you play German music they buy more German wine:
Uncorked
Just how gullible are wine drinkers, anyway? January 5th I was browsing through my Sunday paper yesterday (1-4-09) when a few sentences in a Parade magazine article entitled "How Subliminal Advertising Works" stopped me in my tracks:
Grape Radio
The Art of Blending January 3rd GrapeRadio is pleased to present, "The Art of Blending", a tribute to the artistic efforts of master blenders, chefs, and mixologists who use palettes of flavors to create passion in the world of wine, food and cocktails.
Napa Valley Wine Blog
Looking Back at 2008: Napa Valley's Top Wine Stories January 5th The Napa Valley Destination Council
1 Wine Dude
Looking Back on 2008: Days of Wine and (Sometimes Dead Black) Roses January 5th As we begin 2009, and start the time-honored tradition of incorrectly dating the first few bank checks of the new year, I find that I sense a bit of a rant coming on.
The Wine Knows
Top Northwest wine stories of 2008 January 5th It was another year of interesting stories and big news in Pacific Northwest wine country. Weather was a big issue for growers and winemakers throughout the region. Wineries and vineyards came under new ownership, a giant in the B.C. wine world stepped away, and we lost Papa Pinot.  With that, here are my top 10 stories for 2008 from the wine regions of Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Idaho.
Steve Heimoff
Are expensive wines the next bubble? January 5th Bubbles. By their very nature, they get big, and then, Splat! They burst. Dom-com stocks were bubbles. The housing market was a bubble. The Dow Jones of the last few years was a bubble. What did they have in common, and what does a bubble have to do with wine?
Dr. Vino's wine blog
Three bubblies, Fox Business, and a mystery January 3rd We continued the discussion of "trading down" that we started last week, this time with a focus on bubbly, as the day demanded.
Ultimate Pinot Blog
The Annual Pinot Noir Cycle January 5th As an agricultural enterprise, we are in synch with our culture's calendar, developed when the vast majority of people still lived and worked on farms. It's quiet in the winery and in the vineyards now, so there is time to celebrate the holidays and to reflect both on the past year and the one to come.
Good Grape
News, Notes & Dusty Bottle Items: On Blogging, Twitter and Social Media in '09 January 5th Just as I start my Twitter account, my lingering and long hesitation to doing so being "something else to manage," I begin reading multiple accounts of "lifestreaming" - the notion of simplifying social media engagement.
Juicy Tales by Jo Diaz
Blogging Versus Print Media (Wine Blogging et al) January 5th Dan Berger's latest issue of Vintage Experiences just arrived. One of his topics, "The Demise of Newspapers," touched off this blog entry, because it was already bubbling under the surface for me, too, as an issue.
JancisRobinson.com - fine writing on fine wines
Rhône 2007 - an overview January 5th Halfway through my concentrated look at about 300 Châteauneuf 2007s in the village itself at the end of November, I was having a lovely time, but started to wonder whether my drive down to the land of the mistral had really been worthwhile.
The Winery Website Report
Effective Winery Web Sites: January, 2009 Issue January 5th It's been quite a while since I've sent out an edition of my e-newsletter, Effective Winery Web Sites, and I wanted to start the year by reminding people it still exists (and let them unsubscribe if they're no longer interested).
Vine Views
Mourning a Local Loss January 5th With the new year has come some tragic local news. Christian Wölffer, owner of Wölffer Estate Vineyard, was killed in a boating accident in Brazil. I was able to find some local news coverage in Portuguese and here is a (very) rough translation into English via Google.

Wine Industry Insight
The Wine Club Takes On A New Partner January 5th Ron Loutherback told Wine Industry Insight on Tuesday that he and co-owner Marjorie Loutherback have sold part of The Wine Club to a new partner.
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