NEWS FETCH – October 17, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Vinexpo Beijing 2014 cancelled: China Bubble Pops?
• Amazon Wine Now Ships to NY, MI, AZ
• Chile Freeze Costs Wine Industry $60 Mil
• Shutdown takes toll on restaurant sales
• Spain now third largest wine exporter to China
• Exchange Rates Defining Global Wine Market
• Japan considers removing wine tariffs
• Sancerre leaving INAO?

HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• European Harvest Up 15% Despite Weather
• Sonoma County harvest wraps up
• EU vintners recover from bad harvest

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• SB County Officially Opposes Chumash Plans
• Employer Guide To Calif Unfair Immigration-Related Practices Laws
• Unified Symposium Sets New Reception and Keynote for 2014
• Roots to Wine Promotes Yolo/Solano Terroir

• The Wine Curmudgeon’s Guide to Cheap Wine: Everything you need to know from someone who has made it his life’s work and isn’t embarrassed by it. [Sponsored Link]

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Silicon Valley Bank: 30 Years of Fueling Innovation
• Diageo First-Quarter Sales Fall Short of Analysts’ Estimates
• Europe drags on Moet Hennessy Champagne sales

FINANCE, M&A

• Coravin: Why Some Startups Launch in Stealth Mode

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Screaming Eagle ’97 Reaches Almost $4,000 a Bottle
• South Africa fine wine buyers break auction record
• Vancouver’s 13C Wine Storage takes the stress out of collecting

• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market [Sponsored Link]

MARKETING & SALES

• The Economic Origins of the Kosher Wine Conundrum

• Wine Brands: Success Strategies for New Markets, New Consumers and New Trends [Sponsored Link]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Facebook ad profit: 1,790% more on iPhone than Android
• Landing Page Design That Sells
• Delectable: The Only Wine App Worth a Damn

MEDIA MATTERS

• Scratch and sniff wine book released
• Zedo: The Cockroach Of Online Advertising

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine Lovers Are The True Oddballs
• Robinson And Galloni On The Power Of Smell
• Beyond Barolo – Piedmont’s Unusual Grape Varieties
• Sparkling Wine In Magnums—Worth It
• Tannosomes: a new cell organelle is discovered

• Extreme Wine: Searching the World for the Best, the Worst, the Outrageously Cheap, the Insanely Overpriced, and the Undiscovered [Sponsored Link]

OH CANADA!

• Why not an urban winery for Ottawa?

U.S. REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Taste NY Offer beer, wine, food at Grand Central Terminal

ACADEMIA

• Efforts to Improve Access to Public Ag Research Underway

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Understanding Wine Technology, 3rd Edition [Sponsored Link]

EUROPE & THE UK

• Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure [Sponsored Link]

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina Looking For Growth

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Are You a Wine Consumer, Collector or Absolutist?
• From War To Wine: The Birth Of Champagne Taittinger

• Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2014 [Sponsored Link]