NEWS FETCH – April 23, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Clean Water Act Changes a water power grab?
• Drought Dries Up Fields & Jobs
• Harvard Management Owns Up To Vineyard Buy
• New world demand buoys wine barrel biz
• $66 Million In Specialty Crop Block Grants Available
• Total Wine’s Goal: $3Bil In 5 Years

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HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• South Africa’s 2014 harvest set for ‘mild decline’
• Wine consumption falls again in Italy
• Rioja control board rates 2013 vintage as good

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Tanks A Lot! Where to Put Calif’s 2014 Big Vintage?
• Santa Barbara Winery Ordinance Worries Non-Profits
• Drought: A New Spin On Dead Cal Bees?
• Pat Paulsen Vineyards reopens tasting room after 20-year absence

• Introduction to Water in California [Sponsored Link]

DROUGHT

• Temperance Flat dam not economically justified
• West Water Supplies Improve
• Drought brings new attention to groundwater
• Storms provide drought relief for some growers

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BOOZE BLUNDERZ

• Feds Say Powdered Liquor Not Actually Legal
• TTB’s Big Palcohol Boo-Boo
• Palcohol, a powdered alcohol, surrenders labels

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• European regulator approves Suntory’s $13.6-bn Beam deal

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Most Expensive Wine Sale Ever Turns Sour
• Margaux follows Mouton’s lead
• UK Wine company denies fake wine charges
• Top 10 wine cellars

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HEALTH

• Brits Get Tumor in a beer bottle – YUM!
• Underreporting intake affects alcohol/cancer risk data
• Fall in UK binge drinking credited for drop in violence

MARKETING & SALES

• Google upgrades AdWords
• How wineries can take cues from Amazon
• Eugenio Jardim: Reconnecting vintners and diners

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SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• 5 Fantastic MoJoe Updates!
• Despite Time Spent, Mobile Still Lacks for Ad Spend in the US

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MATTERS OF TASTE

• Top 5 Comments on Asimov’s “Let Them Drink Yellow Tail” Post
• Randall Grahm Grows Up? (Say it’s not so!)
• The New California is an Old Story
• Help finish this Best 100 wine list
• Understanding Macro, Micro, Meso
• Why Lodi is the Next Napa Valley
• “Feminine” wine: Why are we still having this conversation?

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REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Walls going up at WSU Wine Science Center
• World’s largest wine glass in a Similkameen vineyard

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

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Phil Hurst, Truett-Hurst: Packaging innovation for wine success

EUROPE & THE UK

• Eastern Mediterranean faces prolonged drought situation
• Rosé sales soaring in France

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ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Aussie Winemakers celebrate end to Japanese tariff

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CRAFT BEER & SPIRITS

• Naked Wine? How About Really (Really) Naked Beer?

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