NEWS FETCH – January 30, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Wine Grape Supply Solid Says Allied Grape Growers
• Treasury Wine Decline Could Force Calif Asset Sales (Scroll Down For More TWE links)
• Farm bill passes House
• Is China Really The Top Red Wine Drinker?
• VinTank: Now in your pocket

• Craft Distilleries Grow From Embryonic Stage [Sponsored Link]

MORE FROM UNIFIED SYMPOSIUM

• U.S. Price War Predicted As New Players Enter Wine Market
• 2013 was another solid year for wine
• Wine market in ‘transition’ for growth

MORE FARM BILL

• 9 Farm Bill Stories To Read Right
• WineAmerica Applauds House Passage of the Farm Bill

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Moody’s downgrades Fresno’s credit rating, citing weak economy
• Final Calif Water Action Plan Released
• Wine MBA Helps Professionals Advance Industry

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

DROUGHT/WATER

• Forecasted rain not enough to end drought conditions
• Storm could bring a little relief to N San Joaquin Valley,

TREASURY WINES IN THE TANK

• Treasury Wine Shares Slump as China Austerity Hits Earnings
• Treasury Wine drinks a bitter cup
• Sales slump forces $40m Treasury Wine Estates downgrade

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo sales slowed by ‘weak’ markets
• Diageo to cut costs after emerging markets hit sales
• Asian Stocks Slump as Fed Cuts Bond Buys, China PMI Falls

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Inside Pernod Ricard’s innovation locker
• Idaho understands regional wine marketing
• Wines of Argentina to target millennials through music festivals

• How to use Twitter for your Wine Business and Marketing [Sponsored Link]

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Real Wine Fair broadens appeal

• Planning Wine Trade Show Participation [Sponsored Link]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Paid Search Clicks Climb at the End of 2013, as Do CPCs
• Boost Multichannel Efforts with Telesales

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Should Robert Parker Have Listened to Disraeli?
• Parker and the kinds of blogs we just don’t need

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• At home on Red Mountain
• Calif’s Anderson Valley a sleeper hit
• Managing Vineyards Like Bonsai Key To Colgin’s 100-Point Wines

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

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Quantifying terroir with chemistry:

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Antonio Mastroberardino, father of Campania fine wine movement, has died

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

DOWN UNDER

• Australian wine grape growers being ‘forced into insolvency’

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

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

LATIN AMERICA

• Chilean Malbec ‘no threat’ to Argentina

OLIVE OIL

• Italy, Spain, Tunisia America’s Top Olive Oil Suppliers
• NY Times Revises Olive Oil Fraud Infographic

BIZARRE

• Giant boulder rips through Italian vineyard