NEWS FETCH – February 28, 2014

TOP NEWS

• US Govt Asking Industry To Fund Most Of $50 Million Alcohol/Health Study
• TTB Proposes New Oregon AVA, Cites Wine Blogs as Support
• Calif drought relief package sent to Gov
• Vinitaly launches hackathon
• The wine business is ripe for disruption

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

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Wine tourism has energized North SLO County
• Bomb dogs to protect Napa Valley Marathon
• Use of Healdsburg water for agriculture delayed

• Introduction to Water in California [Sponsored Link]

DROUGHT/WATER

• Storms bring relief to parched California
• Drought be dammed, Calif lawmakers look to storing water

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

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• TN: Wine-in-grocery bill about voters’ voice
• DISCUS gives $100,000 to Oregon privatization effort
• Oregon Pulls Ahead With DtC Sales

FINANCE, M&A

• Wine investment firm that hired Wolf of Wall Street shut down
• Califwine trio partner with Evening Land Vineyards in Oregon
• China’s Summergate in talks with outside investors
• Piccadily acquires 89% stake in Indian wine maker Nirvana Biosys

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• The $1000 Barrier For Napa Cabs Has Been Breached – Tentatively
• Is wine still a good financial investment, and is it prudent to trade it online?

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

HEALTH

• A Seismic Shift In French Paradox Research
• Wine Becomes More Like Whisky as Alcohol Content Gets High

MARKETING & SALES

• 7 Hours’ Work Needed to Afford a Bottle of Wine
• Sud de France launches WineHub to tap lucrative export markets
• ‘We want to be next door to beer’: Single-serve wine guru
• 5 ways to develop brand recognition

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ViniSud 2014, Day 3, Reflections

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Google Glass tipped to shape future wine buying habits
• Attacks On Google: An analysis of the anti-tech phenomenon
• Leverage Your Wine Club to Gain New Customers

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

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• How To Win In Wine Without Losing Your Shirt
• State opens on-line system for farm labor contractor applications

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Symposium gleanings: Saline, sales and more
• Lo Hai Qu Attends the Napa Valley Wine Writers Symposium

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Does the world need a new top tier for Chianti Classico?
• Is this Italian red the next Bordeaux?
• WOPN Hoppin’
• Patz & Hall has a new Sonoma home
• Tudal Family Winery [Part Two]
• Bordeaux Brandy – The Next Big Thing?

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

WINE TOURISM

• Top 10 wine attractions: Napa and Sonoma

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• FL: Retail Leader Charles Bailes Responds To The Walmart Challenge
• NH: Bill would leverage wine sales to get Argentina to pay its bills
• SC: Bill would give Darlington Raceway a permanent beer and wine license

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

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Safe disposal of treated timber vine posts
• Grapevine research gets boost from new database

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Terlato to Import Domaine Ramonet

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

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Grape and wine group calls for gas moratorium

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Indian wine market size to touch 28 million litres by next year

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

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• In wine country, it’s sour grapes for machismo!
• Reimagined Wine
• Letter from a half-full bottle to an apostle of wine

• The Control of Nature [Sponsored Link]