NEWS FETCH – January 21, 2014

TOP NEWS

• OZ: Red wine fall drags down export volumes
• Naked Winery doubling size in Oregon as e-commerce soars
• TN: Grocery wine bill negotiations near breakthrough

• Protecting Intellectual Property in Your Brand [Sponsored Link]

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Santa Barbara Vintners’ Symposium set for Friday
• California Grape & Tree Fruit Association’s Top 10 Issues
• Public comment sought on Bay Delta plan
• Sonoma identity crisis: too many tasting rooms?

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

DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Southern W&S ExecVP, Gen Mgr For NV Resigns
• FL: Independent Retailers Brace For Walmart Spirits Push
• KY: Liquor retailers pay close attention to reinstatement of state ban
• Privatization of PA liquor: better alternative to a broken system

PUBLIC COMPANIES, FINANCE, M&A

• Treasury Wine Estates “Sell” Rating Reaffirmed by Deutsche Bank
• China’s Slowdown Pushes Rémy Cointreau To Double-Digit Sales Decline
• Most startups croak 20 months after their last funding round

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bordeaux Bullish, But DRC Still Market Favorite
• Strong provenance entices bidders at Louis Jadot HK auction

• Breakfast at Sotheby’s [Sponsored Link]

REGULATION & COMPLIANCE

• Growlers: Not Just for Beer Anymore
• TX: New Laxed Regulations for Alcohol Producers in Dallas

LEGAL MATTERS

• Pom v. Coke, Battle of the Misleading Fruits
• On blogging, [in]correct claims and the Constitution
• Trademark Trolling: Can Veuve Clicquot affect your sight/ judgment?

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine Shipping that Makes Cents
• Kickstarter Portable Tasting Room

• What are the biggest challenges that Wine Distributors face on daily basis? [Sponsored Link]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Vintank Now On Your iPhone
• Cultivating Repeat Business Selling Wine Online
• Three Free Tools for Auditing Your Social Audience
• Idibon shows brands what customers hate about them — in any language

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

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• CO: Wine, food and fun with the Guv and CRA
• KS: Big Turnout For Kansas Wine Conference

• Planning Wine Trade Show Participation [Sponsored Link]

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine Bloggers = Wine Consumers: Wine Blogger Study
• Wine Writer Sue Straight
• Wine Economist World Tour Update
• The new edition of The Science of Wine

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Tasting with Mike Roth: Keeping Lo-Fi with Wine
• Jancis: Burgundy 2012
• WSET wine educators of the year

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

HEALTH

• Alcohol consumption & cause of death in a large European study

OH CANADA!

• Much of Essex grape crop ‘basically toast’ due to cold

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

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Farm Futures Re-launches Ag Finance Boot Camp Farm
• Thoughts on Sustainable Vineyard Management
• North Coast cooperages and barrel brokers

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• EU Offers €5m to Fight Olive Oil Fraud Research

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

DOWN UNDER

• Dollar drop needed to boost Aussie wine market

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

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Enjoy wine, don’t stress about it
• Trained truffle dogs sniff out the goods
• Russian Vodka Only Good For Cleaning The Oven, Says Hugh Laurie

• The Science of Cheese [Sponsored Link]