NEWS FETCH – October 23, 2014

TOP NEWS

• US faces wine tariff hikes in trade dispute with Canada & Mexico
• Tesco boots chairman as profits plummet 92%
• Prosecco sales exploding … so are some bottles
• A Genuine Scientific Analysis of Influential Wine Blogs
• Early Bird Pricing Ending Soon – Enter Your Brands in 2015 BTN USA Guide Now! *Sponsored Link*

HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• In Italy, a tough vintage
• Calif: Early pickings and unnerving omens
• Napa Valley: Early and excellent
• Take control of your wine costing and set your prices with confidence *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Supervisors approve Castellucci
• Rootstock Conference: high-level, seminars, industry experts, wine trials, tastings, & exhibits
• Special ZAP Trade and Media Event
• Calif: Petaluma Gap AVA Bid Blowing in the Wind
• SB Supes Decide Against Chumash Santa Ynez Casino Lawsuit
• Cider Growth Outpaces Wine, Sonoma County Maker Opens Tasting Room
• Kick start your DTC wine sales business with the DTC Consultant Network *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Winegrowers Find Answers to Vineyard Water Use
• Calif: Environmental group sues Cambria CSD over water project
• Calif: Most favor water bond
• California water agencies lose billions of gallons underground
• California official: Innovation will enable farms to thrive despite drought
• A barrier to Prop 1?
• Water bond really is in the SJ Valley’s interests
• Monterey County begins Salinas Valley groundwater sustainability effort

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DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• TN: Wine-in-grocery-stores opponents uncork marketing efforts

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Pernod Forecasts Profit Growth That May Miss Estimates
• Pernod Ricard returns to growth in Q1 despite wine sales decline
• Diageo to push luxury portfolio after Haig Club launch

TESCOGATE

• Five reasons not to buy Tesco shares
• TescoGate : Chief executive Dave Lewis in his own words

FINANCE, M&A

• McWilliam’s wines buys back shares from Gallo, returns to 100% family ownership
• A Guide to Investment, Innovation and Business Opportunities in the Water Sector *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• The price of liquid history
• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market *Sponsored Link*

HEALTH

• Life Without Alcohol: 2 Women, One 30-Day Physical And Mental Challenge
• Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol *Sponsored Link*

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Michigan: ‘Unlicensed’ wine tour ends with BATA ride home
• What’s Your Intellectual Property Worth?
• Wine in America: Law and Policy *Sponsored Link*

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• Vodka vs Whisky: Top 3 Reasons for the Shift in U.S. Sales

MARKETING & SALES

• Heimoff: the new “go with” wine guy
• How Much for a New Customer?
• Millennials Are Changing the Way Wine Is Sold
• What do Millennial Consumers prefer to spend their money on?
• JetBlue Announces Its Own Wine Expert
• Altaneve Prosecco
• French wine has potential in on-trade
• How To Pitch Your Brand In National Restaurant Chains *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• 2014 New York Wine Experience
• Trade Show & Event Marketing *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Twitter Loves Wine
• How to attract and delight your online visitors
• Using Video on your winey’s Website
• Video Ads Still Winning On Desktop Vs Mobile
• Smartphone-Toting Millennials Fuel Demand for Mobile-Optimized Sites
• Consumers Get Engaged with Rich Media
• Launching New Wine Brand Without A Winery? *Sponsored Link*

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• PowerPoint: The Gateway for a Serious Windows Vulnerability
• From Browsers to Buyers With Payment Technology
• Why Marketing Tech Investments Will Change in 2015
• Europe leads world in mobile payments as North America lags behind
• Twitter Launches A New Way To Sign In To Apps Without Using Passwords
• Google’s Search Business Becoming Irrelevant
• The Demographic Trends For Every Social Network
• Google Has A New App To Reinvent Email
• Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• Off the Beaten Path with Joe Roberts
• Top 10 wines in the US press
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Women are more knowledgeable about wines
• Abolish the term ‘second wine’
• Hype over food and wine too hard to digest
• Aglianico: Meet the wine grape superstar 500 years in the making
• Wine is too hard
• A Hungarian With Serious Stones
• Domaine des Lambrays
• The battle won in the Beaujolais
• Sommeliers Who Go Back to the Cellar
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• Randall Reminisces: The Oily Burgundian Days
• David Ramey
• Wine expert Jim Coley
• Jorge Nuñes
• The Tastemakers: Why We’re Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue *Sponsored Link*

WINE EDUCATION

• Vegas: Master Somm Breaks Down the Ranks, Hands Out Homework

OH CANADA!

• Introducing the wines of British Columbia
• The Wines of Canada *Sponsored Link*

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Virginia Wine Summit Wrap-Up
• Beyond Jefferson’s Vines: The Evolution of Quality Wine in Virginia *Sponsored Link*

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Researchers isolate wine and vinegar chemicals which best lure spotted-wing Drosophila
• Vines still available, order now!! **Sponsored Link*

EUROPE & THE UK

• The top 10 mid-market private food and drink companies in Britain
• Rioja must hold price
• Supermarket wine fraudster jailed
• Harrods bring out the big guns
• Tedeschi boosts Fells’ Italian portfolio

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Farmers, politicians and conservationists unite over Murray Darling
• The Vision Quest of Vintage 2014
• Wines of the Southern Hemisphere: The Complete Guide *Sponsored Link*

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Domaines Paul Mas opens an office in Hong Kong
• Thirst for Wine – Inside China’s Wine Industry: The Success Factors of Marketing Wine in China *Sponsored Link*

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina is going towards the differentiation and characterization
• The Vineyard at the End of the World: Maverick Winemakers and the Rebirth of Malbec *Sponsored Link*

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• 11 Of The Coolest Wine-Themed Tattoos
• Champagne picked to sounds of World War I
• Fifty Years of American Winemaking
• WA: Bellevue hit-and-run destroys high-end bottles of wine
• Decanter Uses Sound Waves to Make Your Wine Taste Better
• In praise of hobbyhorses
• Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*

OLIVE OIL

• Taiwan will tighten requirements for edible oil imports
• Fashion and olive oil
• The Great Olive Oil Shortage of 2014 Is Imminent
• Analysts forecast the Global Olive Oil market to grow at a CAGR of 3.05 %
• Research shows Olive Leaf is a powerful antioxidant
• Olive oil more stable and healthful than seed oils for frying food
• Italian Growers Sidelined While Dante Project Gets Public Funding
• Olive Oil: From Tree to Table *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT & WATER … CONTINUED

• Drought slows illegal marijuana farms in Santa Barbara County
• Tribes, agencies lay out arguments in groundwater lawsuit
• Improving water management in drought-stricken Western states
• Calif: Reclamation Releases Environmental Documents for SJ Irrigation Districts
• Feds to Measure Conservation Impacts on Water Quality
• Calif Department of Fish and Wildlife responds to drought conditions
• Calif: Flood agencies illustrate disaster threat, need for preparation