NEWS FETCH – March 18, 2014

TOP NEWS

• TN Gov expected to sign wine-in-grocery-stores bill Thursday
• Capps outlines 2014 farm bill in visit to Paso Robles
• Wine Growlers: Feds Clarify While States Remain Problematic
• Judge to decide in April whether to suspend Paso basin ordinance
• Wine price comparison site to predict prices
• Sonoma rejects cap on tasting rooms
• Dreading the 2014 frost season
• Naked Wines Moves US HQ into former Copia building
• Dan Tudor touches off Carmel wine-tasting wars

• Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s Your Checklist [Sponsored Link]

DROUGHT/WATER

• How Will Farmers Respond to the 2014 California Drought?
• Turrentine to Central Coast: Control Your Water Before Sacramento Does
• California soil toxins worsened by drought

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

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo, Brown-Forman battle over how whiskey can be made

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Investors in sham wine fund on ‘mugs list’
• Angelus ’07 Saint-Emilion Drops to 10-Month Low on Liv-Ex

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

HEALTH

• Alcohol’s effects on cardiovascular risk among subjects with diabetes mellitus

LEGAL MATTERS

• Branding Strategies in Agricultural Commodities: Vineyard & Block Designates
• Bringing common sense to wine drinking laws

INDUSTRY DATA

• Vinexpo IWSR Study Confusing and Confounding

MARKETING & SALES

• What Percent of Your Tasting Room Visitors Buy Nothing? (Melon Squeezers Redux)
• Reducing shopping cart abandonment
• Better Measurement, Metrics Needed for Engagement
• How to Predict the ROI of Organic SEO in 3 Easy Steps
• Australia’s love affair with cellar doors continues to ripen
• Bacardi to spend milllions to target millennials

• Understand the Retailer, their Market and their Buyers [Sponsored Link]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Ignoring ‘Anonymous Coward’ — a rant on anonymous apps
• What is behind online wine sales?

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

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Covered California makes push for Latino enrollment in San Joaquin Valley
• Covered California claims it reaches 1-million milestone
• Immigration study to be released at DC event

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Settling on Scores: Hedges Family Estate and Wine Spectator
• Taking a page from California’s wine history

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Slippery Slope of Ripeness
• Kosher Wine’s Southern Exposure
• The Galloping Gaul Of Kosher Wine
• Cerro Prieto Vineyard and Cellars

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

OH CANADA!

• Expanding Niagara wine exports
• Champagne Blin’s 80 million bubbles

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

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OR: Elk Cove Vineyards adds 69-acre site in Yamhill-Carlton AVA
• Oregon ‘on the verge of something exciting’
• NY: How Serious Is Long Island About Sustainable Wine?

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Spain must plant more international grape varieties
• Torres: The World’s Most Admired Wine Brand?

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

DOWN UNDER

• Can NZ avoid another wine glut?
• NZ: Winery to stay in family for 1000 years

SOUTH AFRICA

• Great Expectations: South Africa Wine Report

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The Truth About Cheap vs. Expensive Wine
• Why You’ll Be Paying 25% More For French Wine
• Corks, Mateus, wine sales

• The Control of Nature [Sponsored Link]

OFF THE WALL

• You’re A Good Manic, Stillman Brown
• How You Can Help With the California Drought

ALMONDS & OTHER TREE NUTS

• Botryosphaeria a ‘sleeping giant’ in walnuts

SOOOOO YEAR-BEFORE-THE-YEAR-BEFORE-LAST

• Rapper Puts Fizz Into Sparkling Wine Brand

BORING: WANDERING HEADLINE

• Kevin Parker, Owner Of Bio-dynamic And Organic Winery Chateau Maris, Announces Plans To Sell 300,000 Bottles Of Wine In 2014