NEWS FETCH – August 25, 2014

LATEST NAPA EARTHQUAKE NEWS (SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE LINKS)

• Earthquake engineers and scientists headed for Napa quake zone
• Napa Quake Insured damages: $500M to $1 Billion
• Napa Wine Industry Quake Help Forum Created
• Scientists: Napa quake should be a ‘wake-up call’
• Napa: Crashing bottles, barrels sow doubt about wine country travels
• Best Overall Summary of Napa Earthquake Links: Winebusiness.com

TOP NEWS

• Madame De Rothschild Takes Her Final Bow
• Oversupply and a Bubble Forming. Now What?
• Treasury Wine Estates boss wins major shareholder backing for US push
• Australian Vintage signs China wine distribution deal
• 12 Things to Consider When Expanding your Beverage Brand’s Line-up. *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Vintners want to raise development fees for affordable housing
• Brotherhood Winery Names Brand Action Team Agency of Record
• How To Engage Your Wine Club Members So They Can’t Live Without You *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Drought fears soar in Sonoma Wine Country
• Water Daily Digest
• Vines still available, order now!! **Sponsored Link*

NAPA EARTHQUAKE – EXTENDED COVERAGE

• Video: Wine tanks ruptured by Napa earthquake
• Napa olive oil shop loses most of its inventory in quake
• Winemaker Steve Matthiasson one of many sorting through quake wreckage
• Wark: The Napa Earthquake Strikes
• Heimoff: Earthquake rattles nerves, causes extensive damage
• Diaz: Napa Valley Not too shaken, just a little stirred in Sonoma County
• Bottle shock: Napa Valley quake shatters prized wine collections
• The people we aren’t seeing on the news
• Wineries Assessing Damage of Napa Area quake

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Acquisition is only first step to Diageo-USL integration
• Portman Group panel tight-lipped after Diageo criticism

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex 50: four weeks’ performance
• Fraud on a jaw-dropping scale: how wine-taster Rudy Kurniawan was sniffed out
• Ten years in jail for US wine fraudster not enough
• Kurniawan and Wine’s “trust” fund
• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market *Sponsored Link*

HEALTH

• Alcohol consumption and brain structure on MRI scans
• The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol *Sponsored Link*

LEGAL MATTERS

• Power Ranking The Wine Label Laws
• USDA clarifies use of ‘organic’ in brand, company names
• US lawyer falls foul of state wine laws
• Wine in America: Law and Policy *Sponsored Link*

MARKETING & SALES

• When it’s time to kiill off a brand
• Big Wine and crowdsourcing
• How Marketers Are Sizing Up Millennials
• Programming your Brand for Retail Depletions: What programs work and don’t work *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Ten Years of the Sustainable Ag Expo
• Trade Show & Event Marketing *Sponsored Link*

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• The wacky things people really do during conference calls (infographic)
• MIT study shows people would rather take orders from a robot than their boss
• Wine Business Case Studies:: Thirteen Cases from the Real World of Wine Business Management *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• Dishing with Jameson Fink at Grape Collective
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Sommelier conference: Where the elite of the restaurant trade come together
• The Elegant, Serious Side of Vinho Verde
• With Famille Perrin, Paso Robles in Central Coast offers taste of Rhone history
• Quebec’s wine pioneers a determined lot
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OR: Maria Ponzi appointed president at Ponzi Vineyards
• WA: Dusted Valley Vintners makes winemaking change
• Beyond Jefferson’s Vines: The Evolution of Quality Wine in Virginia *Sponsored Link*

EUROPE & THE UK

• German wine reforms a positive change

DOWN UNDER

• McGuigan signs landmark deal with China’s largest food trader
• Hardys Wines celebrates distribution in over 100 countries [infographic]
• Wines of the Southern Hemisphere: The Complete Guide *Sponsored Link*

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China can boom, but Singapore will always be a top market
• Thirst for Wine – Inside China’s Wine Industry: The Success Factors of Marketing Wine in China *Sponsored Link*

HOW TO BURY YOUR MESSAGE UNDER A BLIZZARD OF WORDS

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