NEWS FETCH – February 4, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Restaurant sales, traffic dip in December
• Satellites show ‘total’ California water storage at near-decade low
• Ag Groups Put Pressure On Immigration Issue

• A Stellar Sales Pitch Starts With Only One Thing? [Sponsored Link]

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Southern Wine & Spirits opens Calif Supply Center
• San Joaquin River restoration flow stopped early to save water
• Marin drought: preparing for fewer wine grapes
• Rack & Riddle moves as Duckhorn expands
• C. Mondavi & Family Makes Three High-Profile Hires
• Citrus growers lose $441 million from Calif freeze

• Introduction to Water in California [Sponsored Link]

DROUGHT/WATER

• Nor Any Drop To Drink …Looking Outside Our Bubble
• Calif Dries Up as Brown Pushes $15 Billion Tunnel
• Cal governor pans GOP water plan
• Drought cuts into state’s hydro power supplies
• Pistachio industry facing tough drought implications

• Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource [Sponsored Link]

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• TN: Wine in grocery stores bill passes Senate
• NY: liquor warehousing law may cost small dealers big
• NY Wine dealers say new tax could raise alcohol costs by $2 a bottle
• NY: New Effort To Pass “At-Rest” Legislation
• Judge to Wine Lovers: “It’s Not 1933?”

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo CEO buys $1 million worth of company stock

FINANCE, M&A

• OR: Parr, Banks & Moorman Join Evening Land Winery
• How To Start A Winery In Napa If You Can’t Afford $100K An Acre

• The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow [Sponsored Link]

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 falls 0.9% in January

• Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization [Sponsored Link]

HEALTH

• Building Momentum to Prevent Alcohol Advertising On Public Property

LEGAL MATTERS

• Want to be in the booze business in SF? Better know the law

MARKETING & SALES

• Millennials’ Social Media Posts Influence Peers to Buy New Products
• Millennials & Social Commerce: Turning Likes, Follows or Pins Into a Sale
• World’s Best In-Flight Wine Lists Revealed

• Facebook Marketing for Wineries and Tips on How To Engage [Sponsored Link]

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Chinese wine in Europe: Changyu, TxB to team up at ProWein

• Planning Wine Trade Show Participation [Sponsored Link]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Comcast Sandbags News Fetch Again: iPhone/Verizon Save The Day
• 6 new facts about how people use Facebook
• Online Reviewers Lean Toward Good, Mixed Feedback over Negative
• Hello Vino Launches New All-In-One Wine App for iOS 7
• Ecommerce Security – Is Your Data Protected?

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

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Using LinkedIn in Your Job Search: Please Be a Groupie!

• Managing Water Resources: Methods and Tools for a Systems Approach [Sponsored Link]

• Markets and the Environment [Sponsored Link]

MEDIA MATTERS

• A Journalist’s View Of Those Slick Emailer Services

• Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment [Sponsored Link]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Being Wilfred Wong’s Twelfth Man
• How Rising Rhône Prices Might Be Syrah’s Game-Changer
• Anyone Else Notice That Bay Area Wine & Food Trendsetting Is Up For Grabs?
• Everyone has a palate, revisited

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

WINE EDUCATION

• Top 10 wine education books

WINE COMPETITIONS – CALLS FOR ENTRIES AND JUDGES

• East Meets West Wine Challenge Deadline Extended

OH CANADA!

• Ice Station Niagara

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

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water [Sponsored Link]

WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Chinatown (DVD) [Sponsored Link]

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Characteristics, Spread, and Management

• Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever [Sponsored Link]

EUROPE & THE UK

• Prestige cuvees help Moet Hennessy buck Champagne trend in 2013
• Latour ex-director Jean-Paul Gardere dies
• Chateau de La Riviere ex-owner’s body found in river
• The DRC Interview: Aubert de Villaine

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Small wineries fear rebate could be scrapped
• OZ: Blaze not expected to hamper Margaret River winery

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

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

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Extreme Wine Experience: Bottled History at Seppeltsfield

• The Control of Nature [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• World’s Largest Olive Oil Company Reports Drop in Sales
• Furor in Italy, Mueller disavows himself of NY Times olive oil cartoon
• IOC to address a seminar in New York

CRAFT BEER & SPIRITS

• BrewDog launches ‘Anti-Putin’ beer

• Water: A Comprehensive Guide for Brewers [Sponsored Link]