NEWS FETCH – May 14, 2015

TOP NEWS

• Cal ABC Social Media Actions Kill Popular Food & Wine Event
• Duckhorn Buys Napa Valley’s Three Palms Vineyard
• The world will drink more than 24.6 billion liters of wine in 2018
• Northwest Growers Strategize to Face Drought
• TTB Compliance can be simpler. Here’s how. *Sponsored Link*

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• U.S. Wines Reign Supreme in Canada
• OZ: Wine export sales hit record growth
• OZ: Tariffs going, going, gone
• U.S. Ag Exports To China Level Off

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• OZ: Grape growers harvesting on average eight days earlier each decade

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Wine Industry Technology Symposium Keynote Program Announced
• SVB: 2015 Secrets of a Successful Tasting Room (video)
• New logo, brand create collective brand for Calistoga Wine Growers
• Don Sebastiani & Sons promotes Andrea Staby Director of Marketing
• How To Overcome The Top 10 Objections From Beverage Retailers. *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• The drought’s silver lining: Tourism up
• Drought reveals farmers’ foes
• California Lawmakers Receive Grim View Of Drought
• California landowners resist efforts to monitor groundwater
• Got a good grip on your bung? Click now to check out our “super grip” bung flash sale *Sponsored Link*

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Losses from discontinued wine brand hurt Truett-Hurst
• Willamette Valley Vineyards Posts a Profit for the First Quarter 2015

DISTRIBUTORS

• Brewer-Clifton Taps Vintus As U.S. Distributor
• Tools of the Trade: 10 Must Have Documents to Have Ready For Your Distributor *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Parker says only 50% of his 100-point scores are repeatable
• Thinfilm will fight counterfeiting with new NFC tags
• The Hottest Topic in Wine Cellars

BORDEAUX 2014

• Liv-ex: Canon released at €38.5 per bottle
• Liv-ex: Rauzan Segla joins yesterday’s releases
• Bordeaux 2014: week round-up 7-13 May
• Bordeaux 2014: getting it right

ALCOHOL, HEALTH, AND THE FRENCH PARADOX
Click the link above for more news, articles and archives.

• Yeasts bioengineered to enhance folate levels in wine
• Alcohol kills more people than HIV, AIDS, violence, TB combined
• Are Wine Drinkers More Responsible?
• Harmful effects of alcohol consumption greater among people with low education and income

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• Wine trivia, by the numbers

MARKETING & SALES

• To innovate or not? That is the question [for the bottom line]
• Limited success: the enemy of real success
• Put the customer experience first
• How Large Distributors Launch A New Brand *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ASEV National Conference Revisits Nitrogen Management

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Drizly & WSWA Services Form Strategic Alliance
• Facebook now lets users call businesses directly from News Feed ads

PAYMENTS

• Mobile payments: leaving your wallet at home suddenly doesn’t seem so weird

MEDIA MATTERS

• Rack & Riddle Launches New Sparkling Winemaking Blog

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Cognitive Biases in the Wine Industry: The Self-Serving Bias
• Filtering wine one way doesn’t mean it’s the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• Glaetzer Versus Glaetzer
• Before he became a billionaire in e-commerce, Richard Liu was a failure

WINE PLACES

• Chile – Wine From a Land of Dynamic Change
• Alsace springs to life
• The Return of Venetian Wine
• Fancy a glass of Yorkshire’s finest? Wine, that is…
• Intoxicating Porto: Portugal’s northern capital
• The World’s Best Places For Growing Sauvignon Blanc

WINE EDUCATION

• Wine Curmudgeon will return to El Centro, and not just for wine

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Wine industry helping the Illinois economy

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• UK Wine growers are toasting biodynamic methods

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: On-trade sales return to growth for April
• Champagne must tackle pressing issue
• The most surprising cellar in Bordeaux
• Domaines Paul Mas expansion in the Herault
• McGuigan UK’s fourth biggest brand

DOWN UNDER

• Is There Australian Confidence for Wine in the UK?

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Russia to fund $100m grapevine breeding plan in Crimea

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Is a champagne glass appropriate as a prom favor?

OLIVE OIL

• Fear of Ruin as Disease Takes Hold of Italy’s Olive Trees
• Olive oil standardization could boost exports in Greece

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER WINE & SPIRITS

• Diageo Targets Upscale Bourbon Tier With Blade And Bow Rollout
• Words of wisdom from Canadean International Beer Strategies Conference