NEWS FETCH – October 31, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Calif: No El Nino miracle this year
• Militant French winemakers strike social security building
• Women in Wine Leadership 3rd Annual Conference
• Early Bird Pricing Ending Soon – Enter Your Brands in 2015 BTN USA Guide Now! *Sponsored Link*

HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Turrentine Bulk Wine Market Overview
• October Ends With a Flourish For Sauternes Producers
• Take control of your wine costing and set your prices with confidence *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Ceja looks for synergy with beer
• Turrentine’s Annual Crop Contest
• You don’t have to be a millionaire to make wine in Napa
• How many wineries is too much for Naoa Valley?
• Surge of Napa quake victims seeks disaster aid
• Burn season begins for Napa vineyard prunings
• Brotemarkle Davis promotes 3 CPAS to partner

DROUGHT/WATER

• DWR releases the initial volumes and highlights of the California Water Plan
• California Water Commission: A progress report on DWR’s System Reoperation Study
• Effectiveness of water policies aimed at reducing consumption evaluated
• Local water usage down by a million gallons per day
• Sustainability: A History *Sponsored Link*

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• AB InBev Posts U.S. Volume Down 1.8% For First Nine Months
• Boston Beer Targets Full-Year Growth Of 20%-24%

DIRECT SHIPPING

• New Direct-to-Consumer Shipping Requirements in Maine
• Grow Direct To Consumer Sales *Sponsored Link*

HALLOWEIRD

• Spooky, Eerie & Frightening Winery Habits
• A Halloween wine tale 2014
• 7 Last-Minute Wine Themed Halloween Costume Ideas
• Ghosts and Graves: Your Halloween Wine Guide

FINANCE, M&A

• Twinkies and beer: A food and bev combo worth billions
• A Guide to Investment, Innovation and Business Opportunities in the Water Sector *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Ecce Vinum launches fine wine fund with 15% target return
• 1855 – jaw dropping arnaque
• Liv-Ex: Bid:offer ratio remains close to 0.5
• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market *Sponsored Link*

HEALTH

• Red wine for breakfast helped migraine research
• UK: Alcohol abuse in armed forces ‘substantial’
• UK: Calls for alcohol calorie labeling miss the point
• The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol *Sponsored Link*

ALCOHOL FOR IDIOTS

• The Weird World of Wine and Spirits Vaping

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• FDA Food Facility Registration Renewal: How to Renew and What to Watch out For
• Wine in America: Law and Policy *Sponsored Link*

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• Thailand: Asia’s forgotten wine market
• UK still and sparkling wine market growing

MARKETING & SALES

• Convert Customers With Discounts, Streamlined Checkout
• Why people don’t like your brand on Twitter
• How To Pitch Your Brand In National Restaurant Chains *Sponsored Link*

WINE CHOICE

• What’s 97 points between friends?
• Are super-premium spirits worth the super-premium price?
• Buying Wine Made Easy
• Brand New: The Shape of Brands to Come *Sponsored Link*

BRANDING

• Instagram trumps Facebook for brand engagement
• Wine Brands: Success Strategies for New Markets, New Consumers and New Trends *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Why ROI is the Last Metric for Evaluating Your Content-Marketing Plan
• The Most Interesting Man in Virtual Reality
• 31 Advanced Blogging Tricks
• Launching New Wine Brand Without A Winery? *Sponsored Link*

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Free Beer For Timesheets
• Wine Business Case Studies:: Thirteen Cases from the Real World of Wine Business Management *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• Misleading Headlines Can Leave Lasting Impressions, Even If You Read The Article
• 6 Easy Ways to Get Local News to Cover Your Story
• Jancis Robinson leads roll call of wine personalities at DWCC
• Coravin founder tells DWCC how he turned near disaster in to a PR success
• Many vs. Much (Bu Paul Got It Right)
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

NEW OVERSTATEMENT ON AN OLD PRACTICE

• Newsjacking is about to revolutionise Digital Wine Branding Strategy

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Why Australia’s Coonawarra Still Rules
• Think Of Champagne As A Wine In Tattered Levis, Not A Tux
• Celebrating Pinot Noir with Sonoma winemakers
• Hahn Wines Pivots Toward Quality
• Sonoma: An enchanted encounter
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• Judgement of Paris winemaker Winiarski honored at Smithsonian
• Winemaker’s Table: Pam Starr
• Clos de Tart’s Sylvain Pitiot
• Theresa Heredia is fine-tuning the wines in Russian River Valley
• Christian Seely on Vineyard Ownership & His Favorite Wine Property
• John Duval creates ageworthy Syrah
• The Tastemakers: Why We’re Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue *Sponsored Link*

MORE NAKED WINE

• Winemakers bare all for saucy calendar

CLUELESS TV ANCHOR (REDUNDANT PHRASE)

• Lisa Wilkinson shoots champagne cork into Nine cameraman’s face

WHAT WINE PAIRS WITH MILQUETOAST?

• 1-in-8 men say that choosing wine in a restaurant makes them more uncomfortable than spiders

BOOKS

• 7 Books That Are Better With Wine
• A Seriously Useful Guide on Biodynamic Wine
• “Sake Confidential” book review: Straight talk about sake

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• RIT group close to revealing genetic blueprint of common grape disease
• NY: If you want a house with a wine cellar
• IA: Board turns down beer, wine sales at new Dollar General
• Beyond Jefferson’s Vines: The Evolution of Quality Wine in Virginia *Sponsored Link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• O-I North America sales drop 3% after decline in major domestic beer brands
• The Art and Design of Contemporary Wine Labels*Sponsored Link*

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Chancellor George Osborne lauds drinks industry
• UK: Trade thanks MPs for scrapping tax

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Winemakers’ Federation accepts report, commits to recommendations
• Wines of the Southern Hemisphere: The Complete Guide *Sponsored Link*

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China: Ningxia a fine wine region of the future?
• Wines of South Africa opens HK office
• Thirst for Wine – Inside China’s Wine Industry: The Success Factors of Marketing Wine in China *Sponsored Link*

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine helps flavor enterprises
• How vintage affects your wine
• This Is How To Function On Only 4 Hours Of Sleep
• Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*

OLIVE OIL

• Cost of olive oil set to rise after disastrous harvest in Italy
• Saudi rejects 300 tons of Palestinian olive oil
• Spanish Scientists Awarded for Research on Olive Cultivation
• Umbrian Leaders Seek Action for Huge Damages to Region’s Growers
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil Wholesale Prices in Europe in October
• Olive Oil: From Tree to Table *Sponsored Link*