NEWS FETCH – February 25, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Can Calif Avoid a ‘Shock to Trance’ Approach to Water?
• Gallo muscles into UK premium wine sector
• France sees EU-China deal over wine trade dispute

• Best practices that distributors use to grow profits: [Sponsored Link]

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Planners debate grape sourcing at new Angwin winery
• Increased number of Napa wineries has led to land use conflicts
• Sonoma Tasting Rooms Too much of a good thing?
• Santa Ynez 2013 wine grape yield, quality high
• WiVi Central Coast returns to Paso Robles
• Michael Yurch to lead Wine Retailing Seminar at Sonoma State
• Cal high court rules cover charge at parties creates liability

• Introduction to Water in California [Sponsored Link]

DROUGHT/WATER

• Nuanced definitions muddy SLO water debate
• Dry wine: How does the California drought affect the wine industry?

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

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• TN House Passes Wine in Grocery Stores Bill
• BC: What You Need To Know About The Final Report On Liquor Law Reform
• KS: Lawrence liquor store owners oppose push for groceries to sell more alcohol
• IN: State Fair aims to break dry spell, join 48 states selling alcohol on fairgrounds
• AL: Protectionism for beer, wine distributors

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Weak rand helps South Africa’s Distell’s sales

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Mouton ’95 Rallying as Dhalluin Focuses on ’13 Vintage

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

MARKETING & SALES

• Mezzacorona Boosts US Marketing
• UK sales of Fairtrade wine jump 15% in 2013
• I Want to See a Wine Bottle on Every Table: Galloni

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Frankenwein Featured at ProWein Seminars
• ViniSud 2014, Day 1

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Shopping carts impact e-commerce user experience
• Gmail adds easy unsubscribe button to stem the tide of promotional email

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

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Is every conversation with a reporter a potential crisis?

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

PARKER, PARKER, PARKER, PARKER, PARKER …

• Robert Parker Faces His Toughest Critics: Wine Writers
• Lion in Winter: Robert Parker Addresses Wine Writers
• Parker Comments on “Parkerization”

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Refining the Russian River Valley AVA: another start
• Barossa project puts Shiraz under the microscope
• Argentine Malbec: Old dog, new tricks
• Taste the quality but feel the texture, too
• Barrel ageing: The key to Rioja’s success?
• Schug’s winemaker on greatness in Pinot

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Jay McInerny: A bright light of the wine world
• Napa filmmakers use drones over vineyards
• Porto: Next Stop on the Wine Economist World Tour

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

OH CANADA!

• Dismissal ends legal battle over Vancouver wine festival name

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

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• DE: Bill Could Legalize Home Wine Delivery
• MN: wineries promoting California-style tours
• OR: Legislature passes bill to protect bees
• TX: New winery and vineyards opening soon in Mineola

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

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Herbicides and Winegrape Yield: A Research Gap
• Winemaker Likens Pesticide Use to Cancer Treatment
• Digging into Soil Differences

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Bankrupt French Merchant Handed 30 Month Prison Sentence
• Q&A: Domaine Chevrot, The ‘DRC Of Maranges’

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Recent rain puts wine vintage on a knife edge
• NZ: Ash Ridge opens new winery

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

WATER TO WINE DEPARTMENT: WWJ…Drink?

• Vatican City Is Top Global Wine Consumer

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Coming Soon To A Wine Near You: Ancient Amphorae
• Wine Availability
• ‘Old vines’ may not be so vintage
• Lunch with Randall Grahm, part II
• On Average, one grape vine equals how much wine?

• The Control of Nature [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• IOOC Jan 2014 Newsletter
• Olive-oil uproar erupts in Greece over cheaper ‘blended’ product
• Greek olive oil could be economy victim

ALMONDS & OTHER TREE NUTS

• Calif Almond Drought: Prices Up, Aussies Eager To Fill Gap