NEWS FETCH – February 21, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Treasury Wine: Faint Praise, Crossed Fingers & Tough Love
• Treasury Wine’s CEO choice under fire
• Domaines Barons de Rothschild Targets Major US Expansion
• Calif Ag Sales Soared During Recession, Farms Grew Larger
• US Ag Census Shows Boom In FarmRevenues
• Et Tu Australia? Drought Brings Policy Drought
• Imports To Take 50% of US Fruit & Nut Market By 2023

• Ten Proven Methods to Motivate Your Sales Team [Sponsored Link]

DROUGHT/WATER

• Water experts pitch for Temperance Flat Dam
• California farmers brace for little or no water
• Drought-Killer El Nino Due This Year?
• More farmers must switch from flood to drip watering

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

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Meeting scheduled over Sonoma Square tasting rooms
• Pruning contest is no longer a man’s game
• John Caldwell: The Napa Valley Smuggler
• Lodi Native group to debut at ZAP/LoCA’s Lodi Zinfandel Experience

• Introduction to Water in California [Sponsored Link]

REGULATION & COMPLIANCE

• TN House approval of wine bill not the last hurdle
• Some Canadian wine prices are more tax than product
• Bad bill would send more shoppers to N.J.

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• TWE shifts supply from China as demand decreases
• TWE grilled over ambitious earnings forecast

FINANCE, M&A

• Chinese Make First Investment in Margaux

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

HEALTH

• Health conscious drinkers demand alcohol-free
• UK retailers split over calories on wine labels

LEGAL MATTERS

• Patent infringement claims plague restaurant chains

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Instagram Captures Higher Interaction Rates than Facebook
• Don’t Gamble on Your E-commerce Platform
• China-based social marketing service Kmsocial raises ‘tens of millions’

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

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• EPA proposes new worker pesticide protection rules

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• The FTC may bark at native ads, but it won’t bite
• A healthy dose of Mr. Parker
• Confessions of a wine critic
• Things DRC owner de Villaine says: a writing exercise

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Climate change is making English wine better
• The Book on Amontillado
• Zelma Long: A winemaker on the path less traveled
• Lunch with Randall Grahm

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Book Review: ‘Art As An Investment?’ Think Again

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

WINE EDUCATION

• Tips to Pass the Sommelier Certification

WINE TOURISM

• Long Island Wine: Agritourism isn’t the Whole Story

OH CANADA!

• James Cameron Takes on Canadian Winemaking

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

OREGON

• Umpqua Valley Wineries celebrate 30th AVA anniversary
• Special Crop Block Grants Applications must be filed on Monday.
• Rogue Valley Growers Seek Extension Funding

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MN: Cold-climate wine industry worth $400+ million
• NM Sparkling Brand Gruet Now Growing At 10% Annually
• NV: U of Nevada-Reno, Hires New Ag School Chief

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

WATER, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Is biodiverse agriculture an anachronism?

• Chinatown (DVD) [Sponsored Link]

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• State regulators pull trigger on Telone
• And the winner for strangest wine experiment of the year goes to…

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• The late, great Michael Cox: his last big interview
• Italians’ thirst for wine diminishes as younger generation turns to beer

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

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

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

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Watch this lady frost a cake on the subway and then share it with everyone
• Wine + Life: How To Open A Bottle Of Wine
• ¡Mucho Gusto! Get to know Sauvignon Blanc
• Has your wine got an altitude problem?

• The Control of Nature [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• Virgin Olive Oil in Kit for Clean, Safe Births in Nigeria
• Olive Oil Package Design Top of Mind During Greek Crisis
• Cretan olive oil harvests down 60%, but could be ‘tastiest ever’
• Greece: Kalamata PDO harvest completed