NEWS FETCH – August 19, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Climate change may mean China could be top wine producer by 2050
• Restaurant traffic inches into positive territory
• DC Weighs in Strongly on Third Party Marketer Delivery Services
• How to Sell Your Brand To Online Retail Channels **Sponsored Link*

HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Turrentine Perspective on the Total Calif Crush Projection
• Purchases of North Coast cabernet sauvignon active as harvest begins
• Italian Harvest Starts Early as Weather Improves
• ‘Normal’ vintage kicks off in Spain

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Surging wine waste stymies Napa Sanitation District
• L.A. Vineyard Enemies May Spell Disaster for Malibu’s Burgeoning Wine Region
• Sonoma warehouser eyes sixth site as wine sales grow
• Large Napa wine warehouses break ground
• Copia-us Opportunity Knocks in the City of Napa
• Kern County Ag values up 6% to over $6.76 billion
• Lake Co. wineries pour on Vallejo welcome
• How To Engage Your Wine Club Members So They Can’t Live Without You *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Modesto shames accused water thieves
• Oakdale District to consider irrigation water rate increases
• WaPo Discovers The Drought
• Feinstein, Boxer pushing drought legislation
• Drought journal: Search for Sierra fish goes from bad to worse

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Concha y Toro looks south for old-vine País

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Vintage International Ltd director banned for wine investment scam
• Amphora brings fine wine investing to India
• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market *Sponsored Link*

HEALTH

• Do Different Drinks Cause Different Kinds of Drunk?
• Social Network Sobrr Deletes Your Drunken Debauchery
• The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol *Sponsored Link*

THINGS THE WINE INDUSTRY HAS FORGOTTEN

• French Paradox: How a 60 Minutes segment transformed red wine consumption in America

REGULATION & COMPLIANCE

• Indiana Now Requires Encrypted File Transfer for Alcohol Reports
• Canada/EU Pact Not Likely to Affect BC Wine Industry

LEGAL MATTERS

• Product protection is vital: Prosecco DOC Consortium
• Wine in America: Law and Policy *Sponsored Link*

MARKETING & SALES

• Are direct-to-consumer sales really failing to lift the wine industry?
• What Online Wine Stores Can Learn From Omnichannel
• Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s the Checklist **Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Wine technology: Caught up in the web
• A Snapchat Explainer for Non-Millennials
• Mobile users click on browser ads more than those in-app
• A winery digicom manager on his job
• Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? *Sponsored Link*

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• When It Comes to Social Measurement, Corporate Marketers Can’t Get It Together

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Insuring wine on the move
• Life Lessons You Didn’t Learn In College–But Will Need at Work
• Wine Business Case Studies:: Thirteen Cases from the Real World of Wine Business Management *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• SwigPR.com Pours 50 years of wine PR into a new site
• 5 PR Lessons from the ALS IceBucketChallenge
• Putting Click Bait, 100 Points and Wine Critics to Good Use
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Getting Geeky with Wine & Spirits
• Science versus expertise and winemaker trust
• A Pragmatic Approach to Using Wine Ratings
• Restaurant wine lists too trendy
• So restaurant wine lists are too trendy?
• The Doctor Doctored Bordeaux
• Hot Wine: Summer In The Vineyard
• Thinking Global, Drinking Local in Oregon, Italy, Napa & London
• Mendocino’s Italian wines
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Swiftwater runs strong with a talented winemaker
• Pinot Noir Still King in Oregon
• NY: Wineries can import grapes to bolster harvest
• Long Island Wines Make A Fashion Statement
• Beyond Jefferson’s Vines: The Evolution of Quality Wine in Virginia *Sponsored Link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Shall We Put a Cork in It?
• The Art and Design of Contemporary Wine Labels*Sponsored Link*

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• The art of grafting grapevines: What to do and how to do it
• Late-season Mite Infestations and Management
• Understanding Vineyard Soils *Sponsored Link*

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China’s Wine Market Upswing Hobbled By Government Austerity Drive
• Thirst for Wine – Inside China’s Wine Industry: The Success Factors of Marketing Wine in China *Sponsored Link*

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Ordering wine, Big Wine, Treasury wine
• Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*