NEWS FETCH – April 9, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Banks say water at top of list in making ag loans
• Water shortages add to trend of higher prices
• Study: What drives wine purchases?
• From Pot to Pinot in Mendo
• NY State to spend $6M to promote wine, beer

• What To Cover When You Meet Your Distributor? [Sponsored Link]

TREASURY WINE: A CLOSER LOOK

• Treasury Wine Estates boss urges more free trade deals
• Treasury Wine CEO wants to lift US operations
• New head of Treasury Wine Estates outlines ‘cold’ approach
• Treasury wines may dump brands, possibly Beringer

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Drought not disrupting California wine (yet)
• Copia hotel proposal sought to revitalize site
• Rainy, WarmMarch gives hope for Central Coast growers
• Healdsburg’s growing pains

• Introduction to Water in California [Sponsored Link]

DROUGHT/WATER

• Sun is desalinating brackish water in Firebaugh
• Napa Valley aquifer is slowly recharging
• San Joaquin tops list of endangered rivers in America (video)
• Plants need it to grow; that’s how farmers ‘use’ water

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

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Brands profit nearly doubles on strong beer sales
• Pernod Ricard in global push to reunite media and creative

FINANCE, M&A

• Manischewitz Bought By Bain Private Equity
• Wine Discovery App Drync Raises $2.1 Million
• India: Analjit vies for 33% stake in Sula
• Tech CU Funds Winery with SBA Loan

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Seely calls for balance in primeurs debate
• Phelan Segur Sees ’13 Wine Matching Previous Two Vintages
• Russia set to invest $1bn in Crimean wine

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

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• NJ Court Questions 3-Tier System Regs
• Protecting Wine Package Design
• RI: Liquor Industry Fights Farm Beer & Wine Bills
• Author of On Reserve to Speak About Beverage Law at Cornell Law School

MARKETING & SALES

• 19 Crimes: Creative Marketing, No Crime
• What Wine Searchers Want
• UK wine firms should look to US market for growth
• Wine from the Holy Land, at Your Door
• Oakland As create best sports stadium wine list ever

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

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Vino Libero Initiates Agreement with Nomacorc at Vinitaly

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• 3 Ways To Get Quality Customer Data
• Really Break Grammar Rules on Websites: Part Two
• Mobile Search Reshapes the Path to Purchase
• What you need to know about the brand-new native ad exchanges
• Don’t Be Creative – How to Host A Successful Tweet Chat

• How to Get Five Million Users to See Your Brand on Youtube For Free? [Sponsored Link]

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Use 2-factor authentication to keep email secure
  

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Should personal preferences influence wine critics?
• Wine Aroma Matrix pairs smell with sight
• Can A Wine Be Too Unfiltered?
• Bret Wine Never Tasted So Fine
• Lambrusco Rising
• BBR to recreate iconic Judgement of Paris
• Tasting Grenache with the Rhone Rangers

WINE PEOPLE

• Interview: Doug Frost
• Barossa Valley Winemakers: Ben Glaetzer
• OZ: How Louisa Rose to such great heights

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

DON’T PASSOVER THIS WINE!

• Five Myths About Kosher Wines
• Strict guidelines for making kosher wines

OH CANADA!

• Nova Scotia wine gets national distribution

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

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY Gov Hosts 2nd State Wine, Beer, Spirits and Cider Summit
• Researchers examine Va. red wines
• WA: Anelare Wines hires GM, prepares for new tasting room

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

SUSTAINABILITY

• Jekel Vineyards Achieves Sustainable Vineyard Certification
• Snoqualmie Winery launches new sustainable packaging

• Chinatown (DVD) [Sponsored Link]

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• New methodology to find out about yeast changes during wine fermentation
• Experts weigh regulation of ag drones
• Soil Moisture Monitoring

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• The Future of Crimean Wine: 5 Views

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

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Water to wine? Maybe not, but the real story is even better
• When Wine Goes Bad—A Primer To Help Save Your Palate

• The Control of Nature [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• More production in Africa, less olive oil in the Middle East due climate change
• Olive Oil Brands Encouraged to Connect With Consumers in Innovative Ways
• NYIOOC Conference Opens with Barjol, Ravetti

BILLIONAIRE PORN

• Record $36m Paid for Wine Cup

BIZARRE

• Red Army vodka ‘gun’ banned