NEWS FETCH – May 2, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Treasury Wine Estate jumps on Possible Pernod Ricard Buy
• Pernod Doesn’t Plan More U.S. Wine Purchases After Kenwood
• Codorniu loses top UK Exec
• Restaurant sales rebound in March
• Calif snowpack water 0nly 18% of normal

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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• SLO Custom Crusher Opens Tasting Room For Client Wineries
• Wine ‘Storage War’ winds down
• Alexander Valley Casino misses bond payment
• Top Calif toxics regulator quits
• Cartel hit man in N. Coast wine country?
• Temecula Winery Undaunted by Explosion

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DROUGHT/WATER

• Large Calif almond crop projected despite drought
• Planning for the inevitable at Suisun Marsh

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DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Mass. Lawmakers Supporting DTC Legislation

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FINANCE, M&A

• Central Valley needs “cap and trade” billions
• LVMH Buys Controlling Stake in Singaporean Restaurant Chain
• Sula Stake Sale shows India Industry has Bright Future

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bordeaux drags Liv-ex 100 down further
• Rudy Kurniawan has served his sentence, argue lawyers
• Sotheby’s auction buyers lukewarm on Bordeaux 2009, 2010
• En primeur: From Anger, frustration to resignation
• Wine Owners – A Smart Solution to Trading Wine
• Petrus ’82 Leads Sotheby’s London Auction With Lafite ’82
• Wine Collectors Excited for New Penfolds Grange
• Liv-ex 100 and Liv-ex 50 drop 1% in April

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LEGAL MATTERS

• Copyright vs. trademark: what’s the difference?

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MARKETING & SALES

• CIVB opens submissions for ‘Today’s Bordeaux’
• Online Wine Advertising is Evolving

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SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How to improve ecommerce fulfillment in 2014

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MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Using Mobile Technology for Work Linked to Higher Stress

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MEDIA MATTERS

• China set to standardise thousands of wine term translations
• So you’re from the media, why should I care?
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MATTERS OF TASTE

• No! Is everything we know about wine is not wrong!
• Chateau Hansen: welcome to the Gobi Desert
• On “flying winemakers”: Are they good or bad for wine?
• Syrah, king of the wine realm
• California Wines by Way of New Jersey
• Working At Too Perfect
• He Plays Harmoniously, But Not By The Rules
• Two Greek Winemakers Talk Soil, Grapes, and the Wine of 3,000 Years Ago

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SENSORY ISSUES

• Science finds wines’ fruity flavors really do fade first
• Astringency is not a flavor
• So many tannins

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OH CANADA!

• A changing Landscape for wine in Canada

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EUROPE & THE UK

• UK bulk wine bottling set to increase
• Waitrose beats rivals with quarterly sales
• The future of fortified wine in the UK

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DOWN UNDER

• Battle scars hold back Coonawarra
• South Australia’s Barossa Valley is a lot like Sonoma

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ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• A cult Chinese movie is adding some fizz to the sparkling wine market

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NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

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