NEWS FETCH – May 12, 2015

TOP NEWS

• Chinese wine market reviving for most importers (but not U.S.)
• Wine gets complicated as industry grows
• The Curse of Corporate Wine-Think?
• Drought Transcends State Lines as U.S. West Turns Ever-More Arid
• TTB Compliance can be simpler. Here’s how. *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa County committee cool to 40-acre winery parcel minimum
• CA wineries: Time to renew your ABC licenses
• White Oak Winery fends off trademark infringement
• California wines performance in UK strongest its been in 20 years
• Tanna Massar Joins the Castle Rock Winery Sales Team
• How To Overcome The Top 10 Objections From Beverage Retailers. *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Regional tensions linger in California’s drought
• Who uses water? The answer isn’t simple
• Who controls California’s water?
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DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• A Regional Look at the Direct-to-Consumer Industry
• Improving customer retention through analytics

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Brands Appoints Jared Fix Chief Marketing Officer For the Wine and Spirits Division

DISTRIBUTORS

• Wine trade rumor: Santa Margherita, Terlato consider divorce
• Tools of the Trade: 10 Must Have Documents to Have Ready For Your Distributor *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Sotheby’s hosts huge NYC sale
• Liv-ex: Calon Segur 2014: second cheapest vintage on the market
• Carmes Haut Brion begins the day’s releases
• Cantenac Brown 2014: best value release yesterday?

ALCOHOL, HEALTH, AND THE FRENCH PARADOX
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• Four in five drinkers would live longer if they had one less drink a week
• Wine bedtime snack can help you lose weight
• Getting a Designated Driver is Easier Than Ever with the New Website from BeMyDD

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Nevada Wineries Support Bill To Repeal Restrictions On Importing Wine

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Are You a Matcher? Or would you rather drink one bottle through many courses?
• Creating the perfect wine list

MARKETING & SALES

• How Marketers Are Plotting To Use Neuroscience To Control What You Buy
• How Large Distributors Launch A New Brand *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• The Society of Wine Educators’ 39th Annual Conference in New Orleans Aug 12-14

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Wine apps worth downloading
• Social Share Buttons Are Useless and Unused
• Facebook’s new ‘Instant Articles’ program poses dilemma for publishers
• Data Suggest Local-Intent Queries Nearly Half of All US Search Volume

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Vintank is looking for a back-end engineer
• The Power of Purpose and Authenticity
• Napa Valley College to host hospitality career fair

MEDIA MATTERS

• Poll Reveals Generational Gap in Media Preferences
• These are the ingredients you need for a winning pitch book

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Sugar in Wine, The Great Misunderstanding
• The rise of rosé
• Wine designations: Too many already
• Pruning in the vineyard
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WINE PEOPLE

• An Interview With Fulvio Mattivi
• A Congressman Returns to his Roots in the Vineyard
• A wild Sardinian settles down—and so do his wines

WINE PLACES

• A Snapshot of Vacqueyras
• Limoux Wine’s Identity Crisis
• Alsace: Delicious Wine And Food; Picture-Perfect Villages
• Wilderotter Vineyard

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Stink Bug Closes In on Wine Country
• Verticillium Wilt – Excerpt from Grape Pest Management
• Vineyard natural habitats assist with butterfly comeback

EUROPE & THE UK

• Torres pursues ‘something different’
• Sparkling English wine – a growing reputation for gold medal quality
• English wine producers celebrate improved quality
• UK vineyards ‘missing out’ on tax benefits introduced in the Budget
• German states call for ban on Glyphosate (Round-Up)

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Wine takes whiskey’s place as drink of choice for Bengaluru’s 20-somethings

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Ukraine wineries struggle amid standoff with Russia over Crimean Peninsula

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Orange Is The New Daughter
• The 21 Stages Of Falling In Love With Wine
• The Latest in Wine Drugs
• How a Soil Monolith Is Constructed

OLIVE OIL

• Designing Sensors to Mimic Human Sensory Analysis of Olive Oil

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER WINE & SPIRITS

• Crown Royal Debuts First-Ever Rye Whisky
• Grapefruit Emerging As Summer Beer Trend
• Flavored Spirits Find Life Outside the Lab
• Sake Used To Be Made With The Saliva Of Virgins