NEWS FETCH – Special Edition – December 28, 2015

TOP NEWS

• Yao Family Wines Buys Bello’s Former St. Helena Tasting Room
• Gerawan Farms exits table grape business, affecting 2,500 workers
• Australia’s Accolade Wines May Go Public In 2016
• Damage from sinking land costing California billions
• Hundreds of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti wines stolen at French port
• Treasury Wine Sharpens Focus in U.S. With Instagram Push
• Sonoma County strikes blow against Wagner’s Dairyman winery near Sebastopol
• The Lives of Migrant Farmworkers’ Children Focus Of ‘East of Salinas’
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Ethanol exports get boost after USDA trade trip
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa vintner’s proposed helipad angers neighbors
• Acampo wine tasting room plans ordered scaled back
• Napa rings up another busy tourism year
• 12 California counties primary natural disaster areas
• Guy Fieri seeks to dissolve Johnny Garlic’s restaurant chain
• North Coast winery, vineyard sales brisk in 2015
• Napa, Sonoma struggle with winery events rules
• Paso: Arnold family rebrands wine label to ‘Vintage Cowboy
• Paso wine country pushes into the art of distilling with grape juice, grains, and creativity

DROUGHT/WATER

• The Earth is Falling! – Land Subsidence and Water Management in California
• Serious forum needed for Delta solution
• California needs to invest in Sites reservoir
• State Water Board Releases Proposed Framework for Extending Emergency Water Conservation Regulations
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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Pernod Eyes Bigger Piece Of New Zealand Pie For Brancott Estate
• Diageo exits poor payment ‘hall of shame’
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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-Ex: Talking Trade: 18th – 23rd December
• Spanish Wine – the Elephant in the Auction Room
• Burgundy 2014 en primeur

HEALTH

• Study: Liver hormone regulates sweet, alcohol preferences
• Study: Farm exposure modifies kids’ allergy response

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Entirely unnecessary Champagne Jayne case settled

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Your Taste in Wine is Your Own Personal Terroir

MARKETING & SALES

• Does ‘artisanal’ equal ‘special’? Why we’re so ready to believe that it does.
• They’re Thirsty for Deals, But Millennials Won’t Sacrifice Taste or Quality in their Alcoholic Beverages

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Cornell study shows why it’s not so easy to walk away from the social network

MATTERS OF TASTE

• You Can Now Drink the Wine that King David and Jesus Drank
• Disappointing Christmas champagne? Blame the glass
• Adventures on the Wine Trail in Italy – Ten Years After
• Jefford on Monday: Wine is also a dream

WINE PEOPLE

• Sarah Abbott MW, Turkish Wine Alliance and Swirl
• Q&A: Vincent Perrin, CIVC President

WINE PLACES

• Proos proposes changes to the Michigan Grape and Wine Council

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Are All Wine Barrels Created Equal?

EUROPE & THE UK

• Turkey’s wine making tradition under threat from new alcohol laws
• English wine producer Hambledon Vineyard announces expansion plans

OLIVE OIL

• Problems, Prospects for Greek Olive Oil
• Olive oil players to up the ante against Marico
• Experts say that Spain’s olive oil market should stabilize come harvest end

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• German beer purity law ‘increasingly irrelevant’ to young consumers
• OZ: Distilleries brew up competition for Victorian wineries
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