NEWS FETCH – August 11, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Former Beringer Owner Texas Pacific Group Bids For Treasury Wine
• Hill Wine Co Bankruptcy Now In Chapt 7 Liquidation
• Will Legal Pot Impact Wine Sales?
• Welcome To The Vino Casino And Wine’s Shaky Core
• July Restaurant sales improve, traffic falls
• Two Buck Chuck Producers Deny Allegations
• Who really made money out of Rudy Kurniawan’s fake wine?
• Argentina’s wine production squeezed by inflation & costs
• Protecting Intellectual Property in Your Brand **Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Amador winemakers hope fire’s impact is minimal
• Sonoma Valley Winery, disability group share strong ties
• Silver Oak to host Women for WineSense’s Women in Wine
• Manton Valley AVA: Get to Know Us
• California Grape & Tree Fruit League changes name
• How To Engage Your Wine Club Members So They Can’t Live Without You *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Calif considering historic shift in groundwater policy
• L.A. can do more to reduce costly imported water
• Calif lawmakers struggle to agree on lower-cost water bond
• Irrigation cut off to some Klamath Project farms
• Drought prompts calls for greater scrutiny of ag wells

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Former Penfolds owner attacks Foster’s and Treasury Wine
• TPG Said to Match KKR’s $3.2 Billion Offer for Treasury Wine

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Margaux and Haut-Brion on the rise
• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market *Sponsored Link*

HEALTH

• Phthalate Wine Contamination A Potential Cause for Concern
• I Want Happiness, So Give Me My Damned Wine!
• Wine and beer should have cigarette-style health warnings on labels
• Are stricter alcohol laws a good thing?
• The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol *Sponsored Link*

MARKETING & SALES

• The Trouble with Wine “Super” Stores
• When cheap wine tastes cheap
• Content Marketing Optimization: The Ultimate Guide
• How To Pitch Your Brand In National Restaurant Chains **Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Downsides To Mobile Search
• Seeing 20/20 with LabelVision
• How a relaunch saved Foursquare from certain death
• Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? *Sponsored Link*

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Why The Most Successful Organizations Have Women And Millennials In Charge
• Wine Business Case Studies:: Thirteen Cases from the Real World of Wine Business Management *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• Blog Visits: How To Make Every Second Count
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine’s First Obligation Is To Be Delicious
• Is Wine-Tasting Junk Science?
• Obsessed With Vintage: Red Wine and Thinking Beyond The Year
• Franciacorta’s “little” problem
• Cava Is Overlooked Everywhere but Catalonia
• The rising tide of Cabernet ripeness
• It’s a shame Portuguese wine isn’t better known and appreciated
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

VINO POPULI

• Q&A: Anne Trimbach – Alsace’s First Lady of Riesling
• Q&A: Gloria Collell of Mia Wines
• Getting to Know Richard Jennings
• Babcock Winery and Vineyards: The Cutting Edge of Vine Evolution
• Sommeliers Get Beyond the Big Three

WINE EDUCATION

• WSET student numbers hit new high

QUANTIFYING THE OBVIOUS

• Badly kept wine ages four times faster

WINE TOURISM

• France Fails to Figure in World’s “Best” Wine Regions
• Global Wine Tourism *Sponsored Link*

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• BC Vineyard on cutting edge of farming
• Virginia Wine — The Growing Divide?

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• French wine producers turn to science for flavour
• Understanding Vineyard Soils *Sponsored Link*

DOWN UNDER

• Aussie Wine authority confirms threat of Russian embargo
• Australia prepares to grow Korean wine market
• Wines of the Southern Hemisphere: The Complete Guide *Sponsored Link*

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Fermentation caused by living things? Balderdash!
• Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*

CRAFT BEER & SPIRITS

• Craft is about MADE in USA
• America Now Has Over 3,000 Craft Breweries—and That’s Not Necessarily Great for Beer Drinkers
• The Craft Beer Revolution: How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World’s Favorite Drink *Sponsored Link*