NEWS FETCH – August 6, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Ciatti: Treasury takeover could benefit Beringer
• What’s Up With The Kurniawan Sentencing? These Court Docs Tell Part Of The Story
• Hill Wine Co Rushes Toward Liquidation
• Prosecco producers blamed for Italy flood deaths
• 15 Tips On Securing Distribution: How to Make Your Brand a Winner **Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma Valley “Smash & Grab” Crimes Hitting Wineries
• Napa Valley’s fish-friendly vineyards
• New state-of-the-art wine storage facility set to open in Lakeport
• Five Hot Ideas To Grow Your Tasting Room Traffic *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Protect Our Water Rights files second amended complaint
• Jerry Brown presses case on $6 billion water bond
• Drought takes an obvious toll on Millerton Lake
• Woodland-Davis water project replaces century-old river intake
• For groundwater, local management proves effective
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Can Diageo plc Turn A Disastrous 2014 Around?
• ABI INBEV faces $92,400 fine after OSHA alleges ‘serious safety violations’

FINANCE, M&A

• KKR borrows $1.4b for Treasury bid
• Domaine Faiveley Stakes a Claim in Chablis
• KKR Looks Deep Into The Wine Bottle And Likes What It Sees
• How a mistake over beer became the beginning of a wine empire
• A Guide to Investment, Innovation and Business Opportunities in the Water Sector *Sponsored Link*

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

• USDA: Farm production expenditures top $367 billion in 2013
• U.S. farmland values up about 8 percent in 2014

LEGAL MATTERS

• How Are Organic Wine Labels Regulated in the U.S.?
• Wine in America: Law and Policy *Sponsored Link*

DATA

• Sipping Your Way to Savoring your Database
• Hey, marketers: Find that one key growth driver
• Your ‘real-time marketing analysis’ is actually copy-pasting of old data

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine Marketing: Selling the allure of Napa cult wines
• The Secret To Stretching Your Content Marketing Budget
• Start-up Wineist sends sample wine packs direct to consumers
• Consumers more willing to buy groceries online
• Insights From One Of China’s Largest Wine Importers **Sponsored Link*

BRANDING

• Branding without bragging: The Other Guys
• The importance of Branding and Messaging for small wine producers
• Wine Brands: Success Strategies for New Markets, New Consumers and New Trends *Sponsored Link*

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• How consumers are dictating the future of technology

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Why Email Marketing Remains Dominant Over Social Media
• Avoid the Trash Can: When to Send Emails
• Instagram And Tumblr: Getting Visual With The Millennial Generation
• With Millennials highly engaged on Tumblr, brands ‘speaking visually’ on the site
• If You’re Map-Happy and You Know It Tap Your Screen
• Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? *Sponsored Link*

MANAGEMENT

• 5 Key Challenges of Workforce Management
• Wine Monopolies, Cracked: Entrepreneurial Insights From A Closed System
• 5 reasons your company should mentor entrepreneurs
• Sustainability’s Strategic Worth
• A financial separation that makes you stronger
• Wine Business Case Studies:: Thirteen Cases from the Real World of Wine Business Management *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• In Terroir Romance Trumps Truth
• How to make wine blogger conferences better
• A New Californian Takes a Stab at Cabernet
• Lower-priced wines need the love, too
• Content is King, but Growing the Realm with it isn’t Easy
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Expert toasts ‘a wine which isn’t going to knock them flat’
• In Zinfandel, Brawn Wins Out
• Will Success Destroy The Sommelier Credential Programs?
• Marsanne goes solo in Australia
• Adam Satchwell: Cracking The Lychee Nut
• Wine Faults: Causes, Effects, Cures *Sponsored Link*

RANT

• If you can’t make great wine, tweet

CONTRA-RANT

• Hit Piece On Two-Buck Chuck: Good Example of Bad Stealth Advertising

TONGUE IN CHIC

• Your Stereotypical Trendy Wine Bar Circa 2014

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Black American Winemakers Featured at Obama Summit Dinner
• Michigan Reels from Winter’s Fury
• Beyond Jefferson’s Vines: The Evolution of Quality Wine in Virginia *Sponsored Link*

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Yeast 2.0: Is a Custom-Built Yeast in Our Winemaking Future?
• Influence of Cover Crops on Argentine Ant Populations and Mealybug Infestation in a Calif Vineyard
• Understanding Vineyard Soils *Sponsored Link*

OWN UNDER

• Aussie Winemaker publishes website to expose Coles and Woolworths private wine labels
• Marlborough on-point to win younger wine buffs
• Wines of the Southern Hemisphere: The Complete Guide *Sponsored Link*

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Science Experiments You Can Do At Home With Alcohol …. Then Drink
• Fake stories, fake wine
• Never Waste A Drop Of Wine Again
• The real truth behind the story of the Jackson Family Wines
• Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*