NEWS FETCH – August 15, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Treasury Wine a three-horse race, with Carlyle Group Bid
• Millennials’ increased spending on discretionary items bucks US trend
• California water spending plan at a glance
• Protecting Intellectual Property in Your Brand **Sponsored Link*

HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Wine Harvesting Starts Early in Mallorca’s Vineyards

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Farming Reality Cows City Folks
• SLO: Light Brown Apple Moth detections step up quarantine efforts
• Giving it all to make wine dream come true
• Grant Named COO Of Hess Collection
• Santa Barbara: New Brand on Block
• Four Brothers, one winery: The Buoncristianis work together
• Legal wrangling means no rush to sell high-speed rail bonds
• How To Engage Your Wine Club Members So They Can’t Live Without You *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• El Nino’s Delay Spurs Memories of 2012 When It Never Came
• Cal Well owners may be required to reveal how much they’re pumping

PRIVATIZATION

• Liquor, wine prices not rising in Pennsylvania

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Mexico’s Vitro in $950 mln bottle-making deal with Constellation

FINANCE, M&A

• Argentina Defaulted on Bonds No One Can Even Find
• Charles Banks sets sights on South Africa
• Auction Set For Arkansas Wine Property Foreclosure

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Champagne offers first time investors a lower entry point
• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market *Sponsored Link*

HEALTH

• Is drinking red wine good for you? Probably not
• The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol *Sponsored Link*

MARKETING & SALES

• Third-party wine clubs and their experts
• Prosecco production bubbles past champagne
• How To Pitch Your Brand In National Restaurant Chains **Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How brands and agencies are adapting to the paid social era
• Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? *Sponsored Link*

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• Just how big will sales acceleration technology get?

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Wine Biz challenges no different from other sectors
• Workers’ comp changes draw ire
• Managing Sustainability Beyond the Vineyard
• Your Workforce is Disengaged: Here’s What To Do About it
• Wine Business Case Studies:: Thirteen Cases from the Real World of Wine Business Management *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• A Little Responsibility in Wine Journalism Please
• A buyer’s view on native advertising and transparency
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Collio wine country: Italy’s undiscovered region
• White bordeaux wine: outrage or delicious?
• Ravines Wine Cellars in The Finger Lakes
• Increasing grape varieties producing rosé in Loire Valley
• Chateau Nova Scotia
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

ALCO-TAINMENT

• A Spirited History of Drinking Takes the Stage
• Top 10 memorable movie drinking scenes
• Bordeaux-set film’s wonders unfold like, well, great wine

WINE TOURISM

• Malta: A vintage destination
• Wine Festivals, but Not As We Know Them
• Global Wine Tourism *Sponsored Link*

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Aussie grower cuts off vines damaged by major fungal disease
• Estimating LAI in Grapevines using cover photography
• The No Spray Vineyard
• Understanding Vineyard Soils *Sponsored Link*

EUROPE & THE UK

• Near-lost Venetian lagoon vines ready for fifth harvest
• Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State*Sponsored Link*
• Vino Italiano: The Regional Wines of Italy*Sponsored Link*

SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME

• Wine and cheese is a thing. Wine and pants, not so much

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• 21 Signs You’re In A Committed Relationship With Wine
• Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*

NOT WINE, JUST BIZARRE

• Vampire snake weed sucks victim’s life-giving nutrients