NEWS FETCH – November 20, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Why wine is integral to Amazon’s growth strategy
• Aussie Oversupply of wine diminishing
• Will Prosecco will follow Cava’s rise & crash?
• Farm Bill Differences Present Negotiation Challenges
• Tumor In A Beer Glass Stars In Anti-Alc TV Ad
• Wine Shipping Coming to Mass?

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Ballard Canyon AVA considers $30 minimum retail price for Syrah
• Diane Disney Miller, Silverado Vineyards owner, dies at age 79
• $1Mil+ Per Key: Calistoga Ranch’s near-record sale
• Sonoma Hotel Limits Fail
• Distrust brewing over Petaluma Area tribe’s land
• California’s Current Wine Revolution
• Turning SLO Wine Waste into Food

• Happy reader says: “The community is abuzz about this book:” Wine Curmudgeon’s Guide to Cheap Wine. [Sponsored Link]

WATER, WATER, WATER

• Oakdale Irrigation District board leader says disaster is imminent
• Special coverage: Central valley Groundwater Crisis
• Pipeline project to bring water to Carneros area
• Environmental group questions legality of twin tunnels
• SB County officials discuss a state water contract extension
• Lawmakers oppose EPA water regulation rewrite
• Settlement restores Idaho Power Peak Irrigation program

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• United Spirits gains on Diageo Asia-Pacific chief’s statement to sell some brands
• Pernod Ricard launches online site selling directly to consumer
• Diageo to launch new bourbons, doesn’t need Beam
• Diageo Sees Bulleit Reaching 1 Million Cases

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liberty investments pay off
• Haut-Brion 2000 Slides to $8,460 Nine-Month Liv-Ex Low

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

HEALTH

• Red wine compound may help fight meth addiction
• Addiction: Searching for Alcohol’s Trigger

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Job Seekers: Beware Of What Your Facebook Post Says About You
• Court cuts H-2A travel reimbursement deadline
• As companies expand, how can they patrol local markets?
• How to survive the work Xmas party (with your dignity intact)

• From Bubbles to Boardrooms: Act 1: Startups Are Such Fun By Michaela Rodeno [Sponsored Link]

LEGAL MATTERS

• Int’l Wine Law Educational Session Friday in Santa Cruz

BRANDING & PROMOTION

• Lessons for the Wine Industry By Way of Bad Filmmakers
• What makes for a great wine brand name?
• M&S takes ‘stiff collared’ wine sector by scruff of neck
• Diageo Resurrects resurrects Gavilan wine brand
• Rhône ads to appear on 100 London buses
• Beaujolais Seeks Greater Respect

MARKETING & SALES

• Burgundy under £10 ‘to disappear’
• BeverageTradeNetwork Announces New Media Partner
• Weight-conscious drinkers lured with low-cal wines
• Tourists Catch Free Ride to Long Island Wineries
• Distillery-Bar Concept Becomes Reality In Chicago
• Brangelina rosé first to enter Top 100

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

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWine becomes largest Chinese wine show
• Aussies win at ProWine China, as Wine Australia goes missing

WINE VISION

• Direct Wines drives sales by ten fold increase in wine education
• On-trade needs big shake-up to boost wine sales
• The wine trade needs to befriend consumers
• Wine trade should experiment more with temporary products
• Wine marketing is outdated and fails to connect with consumers
• China uncovered
• Black consumers key to South Africa’s potential
• Wine Vision 2013 Lights up London in Technicolor

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Social media: not just taking part but listening & acting on the conversation
• A teenager’s billion-dollar insight on Snapchat and Facebook
• Social Content vs. Social Presence – Don’t neglect your footprint
• Just 9% Of Consumers Find Facebook, Twitter Valuable For Influencing Purchase Decisions
• Don’t Ask a Dinousaur for Directions
• Signpost helps smaller businesses get more out of online marketing
• Small business websites might as well go 100% mobile in 2014
• Email is Top Purchase Driver for Web Users in France
• Communities Take Investment and Engagement, Not Just Content

MEDIA MATTERS

• Former NY Observer boss to launch wine website.
• European Bloggers Morph to Digital Experts
• Thanks to all my tour guides over the years

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Torres unveils “new” grape variety
• Jacques Lardiere: A Life in Wine (and life in wine)
• In the Vineyard: “DIY Terroir”
• Who says Americans don’t age wine?
• The challenge of pure, single vineyard CabSauv

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

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Unintended Consequences Of Food Safety Regulation Quite Costly
• Harold Hamm: From sharecropper to oil and fracking tycoon
• Experts discuss ways to boost honeybee forage
• Farm bill takes aim at state animal welfare laws

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Les Grands Chais de France expands Bordeaux team
• Organic Vineyards In Sicily
• Castel in Rose Wine Alliance With Vranken-Pommery

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Plans for wine industry future
• OZ: Getting the wine industry out of the red

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Holiday travelers: 89% of public Wi-Fi connections are not safe
• Tipping on wine, tax and the total bill
• The World Atlas of Wine: Essential Reading
• How to Really Understand Wine

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

OLIVE OIL

• In Search of Mislabeled Olive Oil to Make a Buck
• Uruguayan Producers Say Exports Will Triple Last Year’s

JUST CAN’T MAKE STUFF LIKE THIS UP

• Wine made by prisoners