NEWS FETCH – August 26, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Napa Quake Seen Costing Up to $4 Billion as Wineries Shut
• Most wineries not insured for quake losses
• Why the Napa Valley earthquake is unlikely to affect wine prices
• Did drought lead to 6.0 quake in California?
• Quake early-warning system could be built with water bond funds
• TTB Offers Tax Help For Quake-Struck Wineries
• 12 Things to Consider When Expanding your Beverage Brand’s Line-up. *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Duckhorn: More Growth For Decoy, Set For Release Of First WA Wine
• Malibu wine growers feel squeeze of coastal protection plan
• Casinos in Wine Country
• California Grown gets new board chairwoman
• How To Engage Your Wine Club Members So They Can’t Live Without You *Sponsored Link*

QUAKE: ECONOMICS

• $2 million awarded to help fix quake-damaged roads
• How the California Earthquake Will Affect Wine Prices
• Napa earthquake not expected to affect overall wine supply
• California wine country quake losses seen in the billions

QUAKE DAMAGE, CLEAN-UP & REPAIR REPORTS

• Napa Quake Help Forum: Redesign, New Link
• Bouchaine Loses All Barrelled Cab and Syrah
• Earthquake Destroys Half of B.R. Cohn’s Wine
• ‘Two Buck Chuck’ earthquake damage: two bottles
• Napa Valley quake rattles Constellation’s wineries
• Wine industry tallies spilled wine, shattered barrels
• Napa Valley vintners tally their losses
• Napa Winemakers Count Their Blessings After Quake
• Quake Cleanup Continues in Napa
• Napa Earthquake Report
• List of quake-damaged buildings grows

QUAKE HELP & ADVICE

• Volunteers flock to Napa to lend quake victims a helping hand
• Napa Earthquake Leads to Wine Bucket Challenge
• #NapaQuake Aftermath & Photos: damage mixed, how you can help
• Now There’s the Wine Bucket Challenge
• Earthquake Proof Your Wine

QUAKE: MISCELLANEOUS

• Quake reminds vintners, merchants of fragility of Napa’s success
• USGS mapping six miles of earthquake ruptures
• Did you see flashes? Yep, an earthquake can create ’em (w/video)

DROUGHT/WATER

• Mexico: Please drink the water
• Oil and water mix in Central Coast controversy
• Lifestyles of the Rich and Parched
• Groundwater free-for-all attacked by two bills
• Merced Growers get extra water

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Distell reports 12.8% revenue growth
• Burgundian eyes London Stock Exchange

MARKETING & SALES

• VinoPro Reinvents Itself and the Wine Sales Business in the Process
• Sunday and Holiday Delivery: The future of wine shipping?
• Programming your Brand for Retail Depletions: What programs work and don’t work *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• Crisis Management: Post-quake PR
• Social Media Faux Pas, Reminder to Keep Your Social Media Local
• Wine press releases … $#@!
• IWSC unveils top bloggers
• What To Do When They Get It Wrong?
• Reuniting sideways: The cast and crew celebrate the film’s 10th anniversary
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Wine + Tech: Measuring The ROI Of Digital Media
• Facebook’s war on click-bait risks collateral damage
• Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? *Sponsored Link*

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Here Are The Rules To Buying Alcohol In Each State’s Grocery Stores

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Rhône Wine No Longer A Tale Of Two Valleys
• New Latitudes, New Flavors, New Frontiers
• Syrah reigns in Santa Barbara wine region Ballard Canyon
• Grand Cru Envy
• Pinot producers look to Chile’s coastal Maule
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

HEALTH

• Low-alcohol beer ‘more socially acceptable’ – report by AB-Inbev
• This Rule-Of-Thumb Can Keep You From Drinking Too Much Wine

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Red Blotch and the Virus Status of CDFA-certified Grapevine Stock
• Vines still available, order now!! **Sponsored Link*

EUROPE & THE UK

• France Looking Forward To Bigger And Better Wine Harvest
• Infographic: why the UK on-trade is losing out on wine sales
• Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State*Sponsored Link*

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Christians in Gaza make illegal wine in defiance of Hamas

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Restaurant reservation? I’ll put you on hold: Are tickets the answer?
• Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*

OLIVE OIL

• Olive oil prices set to rise sharply after Andalusia drought
• Blight Continues to Threaten Olive Crops in Italy
• How Packaging Influences Olive Oil Quality
• UK Prohibits Sale of Olive Oil ‘On-Tap’
• Olive Oil: From Tree to Table *Sponsored Link*