NEWS FETCH – August 18, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Water agencies: Delta farmers may be stealing water
• L.A.County Wants To Ban New Vineyards In the just-created Malibu Coast AVA
• Do Tasting Rooms Take Away Sales from Distributors?
• 3/4 Of Wine In The US Has NEVER Been Rated By Critics
• How To Engage Your Wine Club Members So They Can’t Live Without You *Sponsored Link*

HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Bordeaux wine harvest to be up 50% over 2013
• Washington preps for another record harvest
• Paso Harvest: Earliest-ever start with longer-than-average hang time
• 2014 Petite Sirah Harvest
• Harvest starts in Europe with Sicilian Wine estate Gulfi
• 101st Blessing of the Grapes celebrated in Fresno

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Business booms for custom crush wineries in Sonoma County
• Napa Wineries Fear Santa Barbara-Style Casino
• Wagner Making Progress At New Solano County Vineyard
• Benchmark Fresno/Davis Study On Red Wine Mouthfeel Needs Wine Bottled In 2014
• How to Sell Your Brand To Online Retail Channels **Sponsored Link*

LITTLE ORPHAN COPIA

• Listed for sale — again

DROUGHT/WATER

• New water bond could make Delta tunnels unnecessary
• VIDEO: Governor’s tunnels may be closer than thought
• N Calif fish feared extinct due to drought still hanging on in small isolated creek

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo’s alliance with United Spirits pays off as sales recover
• Constellation Recalls Select Packages Of 12 oz. Corona Extra
• Saxo Equity Pair Trades: Who can catch the Pernod Ricard runaway?
• Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s the Checklist **Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Fake wine ‘arms race’ underway
• The wine detective: Meet the go-to expert for exposing fake vintages
• Kurniawan, the Rabbi, and the Ham Sandwich
• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market *Sponsored Link*

VAGUE HEALTH HEADLINE OF THE DAY

• Alcohol consumption and risk of endometrial cancer
• The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol *Sponsored Link*

REGULATION & COMPLIANCE

• Regulation of wines is scattershot
• Wine in America: Law and Policy *Sponsored Link*

MARKETING & SALES

• Same-day Wine Delivery Expanding, Gains Competition
• When Does Joining a Wine Club Make Sense?
• Naked Wines scheme keeps on growing
• Here Is Everything You Need to Know About the Millennial Consumer
• English-speaking US Hispanics still feel a connection with Spanish-language ads
• 10 Wine marketing strategies designed for the holiday shopping season
• Brand New: The Shape of Brands to Come *Sponsored Link*

BRANDING

• Why wine producers that sees themselves as brands hold all the power
• Wine Brands: Success Strategies for New Markets, New Consumers and New Trends *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• No, your website doesn’t need every cool new feature out there
• Ever Wonder Why Consumers Don’t Click on Mobile Ads?
• Wine Needs To Be Disrupted
• Snapchat is driving marketers crazy — and that might just be okay
• Google on ALT Tags and image publishing guidelines
• Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Lessons Mayacamas and Inglenook (may) teach us
• Why You Need To Divorce Your Wine Guy
• The last word on single-blind, double-blind and open tasting
• Paris’s Secret Natural Wine Lists

WINE PEOPLE & PLACES

• Chile’s winemakers ‘erasing’ terroir
• Putting Ontario wine on the map
• Q&A: Rodrigo Soto, Winemaker for Huneeus
• Babcock Winery and Vineyard: The Cutting Edge of Vine Evolution [Part 2]
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

WITH AVAS & THE TTB, THIS IS NEEDED, WHY?

• CK Mondavi Wines Becomes 1st Wine to Be Made in USA Certified®

WINE TOURISM

• Wine Touring: Don’t forget your corkscrew
• Global Wine Tourism *Sponsored Link*

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Vermont Wine: A Growing Business
• Michigan Wine: Wearing Their Hearts On My Mitten
• Beyond Jefferson’s Vines: The Evolution of Quality Wine in Virginia *Sponsored Link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Pinot noir in a can: Forget wine bottles, think six pack
• The Art and Design of Contemporary Wine Labels*Sponsored Link*

EUROPE & THE UK

• Jack Daniel’s under fire from Russia
• Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State*Sponsored Link*

DOWN UNDER

• Wines of the Southern Hemisphere: The Complete Guide *Sponsored Link*

GETTING HIGH ON WINE

• World’s highest wine launch takes place on Mount Ararat

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE KING

• Richard III: Debauchery and a bottle of wine every day

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Sheldon’s Wisdom: The Big Bang Wine Quote
• Sex, Riesling and Rick and Roll?
• Wine And War
• Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*

OLIVE OIL

• Drought Threatens Consumer Olive Oil Prices in the U.S. and Abroad
• First issue of OLIVAE in new scientific journal format
• Snapshot of Italian Olive Oil Exports
• Researchers Recover Forgotten Olive Varieties in Spain
• Spain becomes Top Olive Oil Exporter to the U.S. and Japan
• Olive Oil: From Tree to Table *Sponsored Link*