NEWS FETCH – March 10, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Altria About to Pounce on Constellation Brands?
• Global Prosecco sales overtake Champagne
• Farm Bill Reflects Shifting American Menu
• Millennials don’t trust you & other takeaways from Pew report

• Getting Your Wine Into Shanghai [Sponsored Link]

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• S.F. investor buys four more Napa wine warehouses
• Truett-Hurst shifts to new Paper Boy ‘bottle’ supplier
• Pacific Union College wins land dispute against ex-partner
• Lawmakers pull about-face on food safety glove law
• Interview – Jackson Family Wine’s president Rick Tigner
• Six appeal: Lodi vintners team up on a half-dozen zinfandels

• Introduction to Water in California [Sponsored Link]

DROUGHT/WATER

• Wine grape growers brace for drought
• Drought Pits Farmer Vs Farmer
• Can Water Under the Mojave Desert Help Quench California?
• Pipe Columbia River water to California?

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

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Stephen Rust To Lead Diageo Chateau & Estate
• Diageo sends liquor, bartenders to your living room

• 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 indices continue to decline
• Lafite ’09 Sets Record Low Over Past Month
• Best value Bordeaux wines 2004

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

HEALTH

• Danger of one glass of wine to older drivers

LEGAL MATTERS

• Jamieson Vs Jameson: Pernod Unit Sued by Napa Vintner

INDUSTRY DATA

• Which states drink the most wine?

MARKETING & SALES

• Pitfalls of Chasing the “Polymorphous” Drinker
• La La Launch Sparks Spike in Rhône Sales
• Celebrating Wine and The LGBT Community
• Use Wine Shipping to Connect With Customers
• Birth of a Next-Wave Wine Salesman

• 12 Reasons why you should use Case Displays in your next brand building strategy [Sponsored Link]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Be Pinteresting: How to grow your brand using Pinterest
• 10 Must-Know Tips to Leverage Pinterest for Your Business

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• At 50, landmark libel case relevant in digital age
• Notes of BS: the meaning behind wine tasting terms
• How To Talk About Wine

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• USA: “Off-Dry” Wines Are Making a Comeback
• Paso Robles’ wine and the wild frontier
• Grenache – its moment of greatness is now
• On “Unexpected Napa Valley Wines”
• Napa Wines and a Diversity of Opinions
• Why French Wine Will Never Be as Interesting as American Wine

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

OH CANADA!

• New liquor laws means more variety for BC wine lovers

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

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NV: Counties Designated As Primary Natural Disaster Areas
• OR: Liquor, Wine Sales Going to Pot?
• OR: Winemakers meet to help define Oregon Chardonnay
• TX: Wine Society Announces Scholarship Grant Program

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Stellenbosch waves reach Berlin
• Burgundy winemakers go hi-tech in fight against hail

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

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Making biodynamic wine in Central Otago

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Vietnamese Will Pay Three Times As Much For U.S. Wine As Europeans

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

LATIN AMERICA

• Grand Marnier Heiress Behind Chile’s First Wine Spectator ‘Wine of the Year’

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Drink All Week: Tips on Storing Open Wine
• Francis Ford Coppola, wine, and family
• Why Young Wine is as Good as Puppy Love
• The Life of a Great Italian, in 12 bottles

• The Control of Nature [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• 9th China International Olive Oil Competition in April 2014
• Olive oil in cocktails

CRAFT BEER & SPIRITS

• ‘Drink Craft, Not Crafty!’ iPhone app debunks big beer masquerade
• ‘Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of rum-flavored beer!’ from AB InBev

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