NEWS FETCH – January 13, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Japan’s Suntory to Buy Group Beam in $16 Billion Deal
• Hobbs Winery Foes Plan Vineyard CEQA suit
• “Perfect storm” of Vineyard Demand Says Moss Adams Wine Industry Report
• Glazer’s vs. Southern in Canada
• Calif farmers and water decision makers talk
• Body found in Bordeaux near site of fatal chateau crash
• Calif leaders closely watch millionaires leave state
• Target hackers set their sights on smaller retailers

• Growth Strategy 2014 – Where to sell? Whom to sell? What to sell? How to make it all happen? [Sponsored Link]

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• California farms lead world in almond production
• Thermally Treated Wine Evaluated at Fresno State
• Women for WineSense Raises Over $10,000 in Scholarships
• Prosperity of SJValley farms (or lack) to be measured
• V2 Wine Group Expands Salesforce

• The Wine Savant: A Guide to the New Wine Culture [Sponsored Link]

CALIFORNIA DROUGHT

• Calif drought worst in living memory
• Calif drought: both less serious (and more) than you’re hearing
• Dry conditions lead some on North Coast to store water
• Why has it been so dry? A few reasons

HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• OZ: Mudgee wine vintage shaping up well as harvest approaches
• Subzero Blast Presses Northeast Ohio Vineyards
• Bud-killing cold could mean shortage for Ontario 2014 vintages
• Nevada left out of Global wine survey

PRIVATIZATION & DIRECT SHIPPING

• Washington liquor prices stay high
• Would liquor privatization hurt OR’s micro-distillery business?
• TN: Head of grocery wine advocacy group leaves
• TN: Legislators to tackle guns, wine and meth

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-Ex: The Right Bank 100
• Zachys announces ex-cellar Jadot sale

• Breakfast at Sotheby’s [Sponsored Link]

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine Prices and Recessions: Fluidity in an Uncertain Environment
• Structuring your Wine Club Benefits to Sell More Memberships
• Supplement Wine Marketing Efforts with Content
• A wine business changes its entire identity
• Champagne Jacques Selosse: Terroir expression or market misdirection?
• S&M, threesomes and dope – the future of wine advertising

• Back Door Distribution Techniques to get your Distributor [Sponsored Link]

PACKAGING, LABELS & CLOSURES

• Guala Closures plans North Bay screw cap plant
• Packaging supplier Saxco plans Fairfield‘megacenter

2014

• Better Retail Availability, Consolidation, NeoDrys Rising
• What Will Happen With Wine?
• What a wine lover wants
• California rising

• Global Brands: The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise) [Sponsored Link]

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Vinitaly Trade Panel Focus on Optimizing Top Restaurant Visibility
• Business, Enology, and Viticulture come together at B.E.V. NY

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• From Goethe to Gallo
• How a tiny producer hit the Youtube jackpot by telling people how to remove a cork with their shoe
• The Golden Globes: Why Twitter Works
• Barilla pushes for 3D printers in restaurants

• Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years [Sponsored Link]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• A New Start With a First Crush at Continuum Estate
• Wine & Tea – From Whence Pucker Springs
• Go Ahead…Persuade Me This Wine Is Better Than That Wine
• Putting myself in the consumer’s shoes
• Friuli Meets California: The Wines of Arbe Garbe
• Bet on Barbera, What the Winemakers Drink
• 30 winemakers under 40 to watch (part 3)

• The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That [Sponsored Link]

MEDIA MATTERS

• Stupid Things Not to Publish on Your Wine Blog

• The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking [Sponsored Link]

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Outsiders Increase Northwest Winery Profile
• Global warming could see North East become major wine producing region
• AZ: Why more supermarkets will offer wine samples
• NY: Growing wine popularity spurs increase in city liquor stores
• OK: Movie inspires Oklahoma couple to open winery

• Canadian Wineries: The story of Canada’s entry into the world of world-class vintages [Sponsored Link]

ACADEMIA

• Sacramento Business Degree Leads To A Degree In Wine

• When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence [Sponsored Link]

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Vine Balance and the Role of Vineyard Design
• Playing With Yeast Diversity
• 5 Grape Pathology Questions
• Mechanical Crop Thinning Pays Off for Concord Growers

• Postmodern Winemaking: Rethinking the Modern Science of an Ancient Craft [Sponsored Link]

EUROPE & THE UK

• Crash chateau dismisses xenophobic letter by ‘militant group’
• No Châteauneuf du Pape with 16% Alcohol
• Warsteiner shares €106m fine for German beer cartel, AB InBev escapes
• Chianti Classico subzones
• Croser to address Cabernet genetics at Santa Rita wine workshop

• Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer’s Tour of France [Sponsored Link]

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Tulloch Wines perfecting channel mix

• How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region [Sponsored Link]

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Italian Culture and Compassion in the Post-Berlusconi Era
• Poisoned wine could have killed Alexander the Great
• Domaine Henry, Thomas Jefferson, And A Grand Historical Experiment
• Wine and Warfare part 13: Divine Winds

• The Science of Cheese [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• Oxitec Still Pursuing Trial Release of GM Olive Flies in Spain
• Catalan Olive Oil Producers Find Saffron a Lucrative Sideline
• Olive Council Investigating Taiwan’s Rejection of Pomace Oil Imports
• Brazilian Olive Oil Imports Continue Boom