NEWS FETCH – April 11, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Wine Industry Connections – The Ontiveros Network
• Cali water plan: hardships to come as drought persists
• Eataly Running Out of Vino as Wine Shop Prepares to Close

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

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• California: Lobbying for water, wishing for wine
• Former Sonoma Valley Bank CEO for bank fraud
• Sonoma bank fraud charges cast new light on Charter Oak failure
• Cal Poly names Scott Dawson as new dean for College of Business
• Merry Edwards: Lessons From 40 Years of Winemaking
• Targets to be set for greenhouse gas reduction in Cal ag

• Introduction to Water in California [Sponsored Link]

DROUGHT/WATER

• No water for ag despite recent Calif. storms
• Government suppresses free speech on Delta tunnels
• Drought Improves in Midwest, Minimal Changes in Hard-hit West
• Napa grants water to two county wineries
• Short water year for Klamath irrigation project

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

FINANCE, M&A

• Sagemoor Vineyard Sales Set To Close End of April
• Allan Brothers getting into the wine game
• Atlas Vineyard Mgt Buys 683 Acres in Willamette Valley

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Angelus Cuts Output of ’13 Wine to Protect Brand
• Angelus Calls ’13 Consumer Vintage, Not Blockbuster
• ‘No compelling reason to buy’ Bordeaux 2013

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

HEALTH

• Can resveratrol live up to the hype?
• Global alcohol action group launched
• Olives and olive oil in the prevention of osteoporosis
• Potential BPA replacements ‘need more study’

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Charlotte NC Law Firm Opens Alc Bev Practice
• A look at a European wine back label
• Do Wine Wholesalers Need To Be Taught How To Be Criminals?

MARKETING & SALES

• Best Practices in Wine Label Design
• Do You Serve Hubris by the Glass?
• Offer Affordable Wine Shipping Options or Perish
• Find Your Niche, Tell Your Story: Vinitaly Panelists

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

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• LWF 2014: ‘a make or break year’

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Sommelier On Demand: Tipsi Gets Personal With Big Data
• Social Service In Wine

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

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• The Heartbleed situation just got a lot worse. It also affects routers
• No Need to Update ShipCompliant Passwords Because of the Heartbleed Bug

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

MEDIA MATTERS

• Profile: Fred Swan, NorCal Wine

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

MATTERS OF TASTE

• In pursuit of the $100 Paso Wine
• Who Said It: Robert Parker or Robot Parker?
• The internationalization of style is no friend of blind tasting
• Yes, Wine Critics Have Personal Style Preferences
• Helfrich Produces No Dogs, Thank You Very Much
• Vin santo’s raisin d’etre

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

OH CANADA!

• Wine steals market share in Canada

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

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• What a Difference Four Years Made for Texas Wine

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

SUSTAINABILITY

• Wine’s Carbon Footprint Case Study

• Chinatown (DVD) [Sponsored Link]

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Prevention key to protecting vineyards from vine mealybug

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

EUROPE & THE UK

• Mining Data From 700 Years Of Tuscan Winemaking History
• Prosecco bars will flourish in Champagne?
• Paranoia in Bordeaux Part 2: Twitterphobia
• UK Champagne shipments drop 5.1%
• Brits prefer ‘big-brand Australian reds’
• Lynch Bages and Rauzan-Ségla strike a chord

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

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Japan fuels Moet Hennessy Champagne sales rise

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

AROUND THE GLOBE

• The history of how Israel became a world wine powerhouse

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The Loneliest Man in the World
• Megadeth wine sells out in 72 hours

• The Control of Nature [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• Interview whith Dan Flynn of UC Davis
• Best Olive Oils in The World Named at 2014 NYIOOC

ALMONDS & OTHER TREE NUTS

• West Side almond crop in decent shape – for now

APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines Celebrates Four Decades

GET A LIFE

• UK Booze Nanny Has Hissy Fit Over rifle-shaped bottle