NEWS FETCH – February 7, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Feds’ shutdown of Duarte winter wheat farm threatens all farmers
• Boston Wine Expo Bans Direct-To-Consumer Exhibitors
• CDFA: Sharpshooter Shot Dead
• Affordability, health benefits = wine sales increase
• How winter weather impacts restaurants
• Rabobank Report: Global Wine Industry Q4 2013
• Predictions for the Chinese market in 2014

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

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Producer of BottleRock 2013 files for bankruptcy
• The Beatles, Napa Valley and wine

• Introduction to Water in California [Sponsored Link]

DROUGHT/WATER

• Vicious Aussie drought spreads
• SJ Valley gets its best drenching so far; more expected late Friday
• Californians see sprinkles as bigger storm brews
• Wet stretch off to promising start for SJ Valley, Sierra
• New reservoir planned for South SJ Valley

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

DRY MUSINGS

• On Being Incongruent … or A Very Dry Season
• Without Water, Will There Be Wine in California?

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Truett-Hurst Reports 2Q FY2014 Financials
• UK Watchdog concerned by Diageo-USL deal impact

LEGAL MATTERS

• Krug Vs Krug
• BC Wine Law: 73 Changes, More to Come?
• Australia wins Prosecco battle

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

HEALTH

• Wine: Goodness comes in small glasses

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Naked DTC Wine Marketing that Doubles Sales
• Personalization Leads Email Marketing Efforts
• Wine Lessons from bookshops, Apple, Nespresso & China
• Google Sees Success with Product Listing Ads
• Uncorking the City: The Art of Marketing Wine
• The Thrillist … Wine Missing Another Marketing Boat?

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Share Social Management Efforts Across Your Team
• Co-creating brands through social media
• U.S. Government weighs in on .wine debate
• Apple pulls last Bitcoin mobile wallet
• Comcast Internet Ads: False & Deceptive?
• Use Google Analytics to drive your business forward

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

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Personal Web Surfing Tops work time-wasters
• Feds Failure to find ‘ghost’ workers casts doubt on claims

• Beating Obamacare: Your Handbook for the New Healthcare Law [Sponsored Link]

MEDIA MATTERS

• PressFriendly launches virtual PR firm to replace agencies
  
• Leaving The Wine Blogger By the Side of the Road
• American Wine Economics; by James Thornton

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• In France, is wine losing its cachet?
• Slurping Syrah with Le Metro
• Pedro Parra digs dirt
• Take that, Virginia wine! Wealthy Gov. Disses State Vintages
• Natural wines making way onto radar of Bay Area wine buyers
• How Mature Is The American Palate?

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

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• ID: Bureau cuts flows below Palisades Reservoir
• OR: Prime Farm Land Remains at Risk
• WA: WSU wine science center pushing ahead
• WA: Red Blotch concerns wine grape growers

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

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Fewer French winemakers switching to organic
• Food industry seeks voluntary GMO labeling

• Chinatown (DVD) [Sponsored Link]

EUROPE & THE UK

• Improving picture for UK wine trade, says Rabobank
• Building wine brands in the UK
• Reflections on Italy ~ Regarding La Grande Bellezza
• Burgundy’s Comeback Kid
• Beaujolais distances itself from ‘quenelle’ wine
• No 2013 Vintage for Malecasse

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

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Wine tank fixers under time pressure
• OZ: Hunting Down Hunter

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• The People’s Republic of Wine
• Korean wine imports rebound
• Prosecco producer launches Chinese site

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

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Oil Futures Market Notches Second Profitable Year
• Smuggled Moroccan Olive Oil Found in ‘Toxic Goods’ Containers

• The Control of Nature [Sponsored Link]

ALMONDS & OTHER TREE NUTS

• An Unconventional Find: Walnut Scale In Almonds

EL BIZARRO

• Gimme Some Tong!