JUNE 3, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Merlot versus marijuana: Wine Country feuds over measure to grow pot
• The World’s Most Wanted Wines of all time are all French (Except for Opus One)
• Trinchero Family Estates Enters Canned Wine Segment
• Are the neo-Prohibitionists winning the debate about drinking?
• It’s time to re-think single origin wines
• Alligator Breaks Into Florida Home & Raids Wine Cabinet
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Boisset, Eisele, Vin-Go, Icon Wines among top creditors in Montesquieu Chapt 11 & yacht debacle
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Estimating vineyard yield? There’s an app for that!
• English sparkling wine industry must adopt a coherent approach, experts warn
• OZ: ACCC releases interim wine sector report
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma State Summer 2019 Info Sessions Announced for Graduate Programs
• Napa Valley Vintners Forecasts Nearly $12 Million for Auction Napa Valley Fundraiser
• California winemakers are going to extremes in search of freshness

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DROUGHT/WATER

• County to extend Paso Robles groundwater restrictions
• California snowpack 202% of average for this time of year

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• New Program Targets Santa Barbara Down-River Plastic Waste

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• WSWA’s 2019 Legislative Fly-In Promotes 85 Years of Successful State-based Alcohol Regulation
• Average winery tasting room prices below $50/Btl (Except Napa at $95.53)

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Ag groups on edge about Trump’s latest tariff threat

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Connected champagne putting a cork in bogus bubbly
• Bordeaux 2018: Las Cases threatens to go nuclear

DATA & TRENDS

• Top 10 still caned wines in the US

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Six Ways the EU’s GDPR Privacy Rules Has Hurt Marketers
• Lawyer previously suspended for wine theft is disbarred for breaking promise of free representation
• Apples to grapes: The path to the Lake Chelan AVA
• Southeastern Athletic Conference to allow sale of beer, wine at sporting events

MARKETING & SALES

• The Benevolent hails social media success

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Corked wine under screwcap?

MEDIA MATTERS

• The Tricky Task of Defining “Winey”

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Is Riesling the world’s most under-rated premium grape variety?
• An Epic Journey in Pursuit of the Evolution of Native Wine
• The Evolution Of The Fizzy Low-Alcohol Portuguese White Wine
• A New Approach to Skin Contact in Friuli: Alessandro Job of Villa Job
• Alice Feiring’s Tribute to Robert Parker
• The World’s Most Wanted Merlots
• The Sleeping Giant of Italian Wine
• Smoking-hot wines from volcanic islands
• Ken Helm weighs in on the Busby riesling myth

WINE PEOPLE

• Aussie Industry players named on AFR Rich List

WINE EDUCATION

• Master of Wine applications closing soon

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• What’s in Walla Walla’s Wallet?

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• New Ways Drones Are Changing Vineyard Management

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Japan’s Sake Makers Look to Wine to Define Craft Brews by Region