NEWS FETCH – October 14, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Bulk wine market sluggish as 2014 harvest ends
• Groupon to Launch Wine Brand?
• Cal Ag Dept Grants to Benefit Wine Industry
• Cal Gov accused of heavy-handed pressure on Delta water tunnels
• NZ Vineyard sales a sign of rising demand
• Cape Town Airport Makes Merlot in Arrivals Terminal
• Early Bird Pricing Ending Soon – Enter Your Brands in 2015 BTN USA Guide Now! *Sponsored Link*

HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• OZ: Orange records heaviest falls in storm lashing: wine grape concerns
• Grape growers: Early, quick harvest means few worries about rain
• N. Coast Winegrape harvest early, lighter, dodges problems
• Winemakers praise 2014 harvest’s brimming purple beads in this video round-up
• Make sure to order harvest bins while the supply lasts *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sebastopol company launches mobile wine tank service
• Powerful earthquake faults threaten Napa on 2 sides
• Two massive warehouses rising in American Canyon
• Raisin Bargaining Association seeks sliding price scale
• 4 Northern California faults primed for big quakes
• DTC Wine Sales Checklist: Dial In Your Strategy *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Could USGS data help California with groundwater law?
• Second Fresno water forum follows a familiar script
• SLO Supervisors to discuss water district, drought’s effects
• Sustainability: A History *Sponsored Link*

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• BC Unveils Some Supermarket Wine Sale Rules

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine waters vines underground to combat climate change
• Pernod Ricard Winemakers launch new graduate program
• Truett-Hurst Inc. Builds Sales TeaM

FINANCE, M&A

• Wine Publishing Today: Are We All Kickstarting Now?
• A Guide to Investment, Innovation and Business Opportunities in the Water Sector *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bordeaux still rules at Liv-ex.
• Burgundy beats Bordeaux in Hong Kong
• Top 10 famous wine collectors
• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market *Sponsored Link*

HEALTH

• Twitter Stoptober campaign hijacked to make it about giving up booze
• Underage drinking, lawsuits, drunks.
• The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol *Sponsored Link*

REGULATION & COMPLIANCE

• TTB Finds “Naughty Girl” Not Merely Descriptive of Wine

LEGAL MATTERS

• Custom Crush vs. Alternating Proprietorship: Starting a Cheaper Wine Business
• Wine in America: Law and Policy *Sponsored Link*

INDUSTRY DATA

• Prosecco Bubbles Upmarket
• Millennial Consumers: Experiences vs. Stuff Debate Rages On

MARKETING & SALES

• Champagne: a marketing case study
• Wine shops as jewelry stores?
• The Wall of Wine, Stories, and Consumer Psychology
• How Much Longer Can the Traditional Store Remain Shoppers’ Fave?
• Data point: Brick-and-mortar stays central to shopping experience
• How To Pitch Your Brand In National Restaurant Chains *Sponsored Link*

PAYMENTS

• Why do people abandon their online shopping carts?
• Do People Actually Use Apple Passbook?
• Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• “Exciting Grapes and Wines for the East” at Annual AWS Conference
• Brand New: The Shape of Brands to Come *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• The Right Way to Measure Social Media
• One man’s war on digital media’s ‘thinkfluencer’ echo chamber
• Instagram Facebook, Twitter… Bring your Digital Strategy up to date!
• The worlds of adtech and martech are about to collide
• Launching New Wine Brand Without A Winery? *Sponsored Link*

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• UCCE posts viticulture jobs for Fresno, Madera counties
• Wine Business Case Studies:: Thirteen Cases from the Real World of Wine Business Management *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• Nine years of wine blogging, should I have just written a book?
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Chablis needs to tell its terroir story
• What kind of parents are grapevines? (Or, do higher yields mean lower quality?)
• Pre-Roman Meets Modern Italian Wine
• What’s the Big Deal About Grüner Veltliner?
• Top 5 ‘off-the-beaten-path’ white grapes
• When life gives you Melons
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• Uncorked: Cliff Roberson
• To Hail and Back
• Wine Talk: Patrick Dempsey
• Top winemakers to watch: Chile (20-11)
• The Tastemakers: Why We’re Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue *Sponsored Link*

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Introduction to Soil Types and Wine
• Biodynamics, or, What Poop, Crystals, and the Moon Have to Do with It
• Vines still available, order now!! **Sponsored Link*

EUROPE & THE UK

• English wine industry reaches ‘historic turning point’
• Bulgarian wine to see surge of foreign investment
• d’Arenberg to build giant ‘Rubik’s cube’ visitor centre
• Vino Italiano: The Regional Wines of Italy*Sponsored Link*

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Fine wine trade eyes up India
• Thirst for Wine – Inside China’s Wine Industry: The Success Factors of Marketing Wine in China *Sponsored Link*

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• 3D-printed food a reality, but winemakers need not worry
• The Five Famous First Growths Of Bordeaux Compared [INFOGRAPHIC]
• Zombie pub crawl breaks world record
• Jamestown Sets World Record in Celebration of Famous Grape Stomp Comedy Scene
• Singer launches cannabis-infused wine
• Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Oil Market Picture for 2013/14 & forcasts for 2014/15
• World Market Table Olive production estimates for 2014/15
• World Market Olive Oil Producer Prices
• Groups Work to Improve Viability of Table Olives in Andalusia
• How to purify olive mill wastewater?
• Olive Oil: From Tree to Table *Sponsored Link*