NEWS FETCH – September 24, 2014

TOP NEWS

• California Wine Execs Fret the Future
• Chumash Santa Ynez Resort: 12 Stories by 2016?
• Missouri’s Major Receives “Substantial Payment” In Settlement With Diageo, Glazer’s
• Tesco May Be Forced To Restate Account
• The fastest-growing alcoholic beverage in the US isn’t a beer, wine, or spirit
• Expand Your US Distribution – Enter Your Brands In 2015 BTN USA Guide Now! *Sponsored Link*

HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Spot prices soften on all N. Coast varietals except Cab
• California Harvest Heats Up
• Central Coast Wineries Start Harvesting Crops Affected by Drought
• Burgundy exports suffer from ‘lack of availability’
• All Smiles in Champagne as Sun Shines on Vintage
• Grape Harvest Arrives, Slowly, in New York
• Who Harvests Your Grapes? You’d Be Surprised
• Behold a Calendar of Nude French Wine Harvesters
• Make sure to order harvest bins while the supply lasts *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Fetzer Making Strong Progress On Core Portfolio, Led By Bonterra
• Downtown Napa hotels slow to recover from earthquake
• SSU Wine Biz Students Help Terra Fossil & Oliver’s
• Joseph Wagner Launches New Wine Company Copper Cane Wines
• Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars opens $7 million visitors’ center
• Raisin crop comes in short on tonnage
• Make Your Tasting Room Sales Explode (Video) *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• USGS: Groundwater pumping and subsidence in the Central Valley
• Calif Farm groups will monitor new laws on groundwater
• Voters in favor of Calif’s water bond
• Sustainability: A History *Sponsored Link*

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• DTC, snobs and market segmentation
• Social CRM for Your Winery: Get Connected in 30 Minutes or Less *Sponsored Link*

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo & Explorers Club Enter Licensing Agreement
• Truett-Hurst’s Paper Boy Among Wine Hits at Vons

HEALTH

• Alcohol and liver cancer
• Moderate Alcohol Consumption Linked To Reduced Heart Attack Risk

LEGAL & REGULATORY MATTERS

• NY State’s Regulatory Overreach is Very Bad News for Cal Wineries
• Tito’s Plans To Contest Lawsuit Against “Handmade” Claim
• California Wine Law Insanity
• Wine in America: Law and Policy *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Vintank: Context is the key to . . . everything
• Crowd-sourced wine reviews a mixed blessing
• How you can bank your social media benefits
• Is Organic Better for You? It Is When You’re Talking About Site Traffic
• ‘Beer?!’ Is the Newest Iteration of the Yo! App Trend
• How to sell your brand to online retail channels like Vinomofo.com and Lot18.com *Sponsored Link*

MARKETING & SALES

• What to Look for in a POS System
• How to Use Social Psychology to Improve Your Marketing
• Get Ready For Holiday Programming: 10 Lean Marketing Tactics To Get Your Going *Sponsored Link

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Bolivian wineries new at ProWein 2015
• Wine Vision 2014 to spotlight the wine and consumers of the future
• WINEXPO: Shanghai International Wine & Spirits Exhibition 2014(Dec 1-3)
• Trade Show & Event Marketing *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• 3 ways PR pros can keep journalists from hating them
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine List Snobbism: Real or Made Up by “Old Guys”?
• What’s behind ‘natural wine’?
• Why young wine drinkers should know about the classics
• Lake County grower’s choice of vine and wines honors family heritage
• Turiya Wine: a state of consciousness, where reality and truth are the same
• St Emilion estate to ‘equal’ Haut Brion
• Getting to the Heart and Soul of Suisun Valley
• The Wines Of Uruguay (Part 3)
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK Wine importer Red Squirrel sees wholesale business grow fivefold in three month
• Casa Vinicola Zonin S.p.A. Announces New Executive Team
• Vino Italiano: The Regional Wines of Italy*Sponsored Link*

DOWN UNDER

• Aussie Wine grape inquiry blow
• NZ Interactive map to benefit wine sector
• Wines of the Southern Hemisphere: The Complete Guide *Sponsored Link*

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• 5 Chinese wine myths debunked
• Thirst for Wine – Inside China’s Wine Industry: The Success Factors of Marketing Wine in China *Sponsored Link*

CRAFT BEER & SPIRITS

• World’s first ‘seawater’ beer launched
• The Craft Beer Revolution: How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World’s Favorite Drink *Sponsored Link*

BIZARRE

• Drunk woman chews through police car