NEWS FETCH — March 11, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Will California’s Drought Trigger A Wine-pocalypse?
• Strike Looming Between Teamsters And Columbia Distributing (WA)
• Bond jitters spread after Westlands Water District investigation
• Lytton Pomos shelve ballot measure, fueling concerns over development plans
• Wine Country pioneer, godfather of Temecula Valley red wines dies
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Supervisors approve Yountville winery requests
• Napa Supervisors back proposed Girard Winery
• The Simple Rhetoric of Wine Country Nimbys
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DROUGHT/WATER

• The feds slam a big water agency for cooking its books — but they didn’t go far enough
• It’s possible Shasta Lake will fill up this month
• Parched California Tries to Grab Storm Water before It Escapes
• Bureau of Reclamation should increase Delta water exports
• A raid on delta islands
• Modeling as a Tool for Water Resources Planning and Decision Making
• Cutting edge tools to identify potential groundwater well problems
• USGS Science for an El Niño Winter
• A behind-the-scenes battle to divert L.A.’s storm water from going to waste
• Irrigation expert drops water knowledge on green thumbs

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Willamette Valley Vineyards Posts a Profit for 2015
• Good news for Morrisons as group returns to profit
• Constellation Brands to Report 4Q & Full Year Fiscal 2016 Financial Results
• Hodder,Brian Gregory Purchases 10,000 Shares of Majestic Wine PLC (WINE) Stock

FINANCE, M&A

• Making the Most of Your Merger—Or Any Other Business Move
• Bordeaux wine merchant GRM sold to Qeelin Jewellery co-founder

DISTRIBUTORS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Pursuit of rarity trumps economies of scale in wine
• Should I Buy Diamonds, Wine or Picasso?
• Bordeaux 2012 boosts Left Bank 200 Index

HEALTH

• Nanoparticles may boost stability, bioavailability of resveratrol
• The Health Effects Of 5 Different Kinds Of Alcohol

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Alcoholic Beverage Trademark Consent Agreements – Will the USPTO Be Scrutinizing Them More Closely?
• Middle Earth Enterprises Attempts To Block Wine Importer From Using The Word ‘Hobbit’

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Hope for the UK’s American wine lovers on restaurant wine lists
• Heimoff defends his use of other critics’ scores
• Singapore Airlines: best cellar in the clouds

MARKETING & SALES

• The Five Tribes of Online Wine Buyers
• 5 things your winery can learn from Amazon
• Wine trade should mimic craft beer’s success
• Wine trade must increase focus on millennials to preserve its future
• Poor Ad Targeting Rankles Across Generations

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• An Unabashedly Kind Word About Cork—The Real Cork

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• The HoseMaster of Wine™ at the Napa Valley Professional Wine Writers Symposium: Part Two
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SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Domains.Wine Is Serving Up Premium Wine Domain Names

MEDIA MATTERS

• What should I do if my site has been hit with a Google penalty?

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Research Update on Chiral Terpenes: Why Does That Wine Smell So Good!
• One Nation, Red, White and Rosé
• The evolution of cuisine: First meat. Then cooks. The result? Bigger human brains (Foodies and wine snobs came later).
• Let’s Make Port Cool Again
• Fruit flavoured wine: top of the crops
• Where To Find The Best Sauvignon Blanc

WINE PEOPLE

• Wine & Grape Foundation honors Yates County vineyard owner, Experiment Station researcher
• Eastern Wineries Honor Indiana’s Bill Oliver
• Bianca Miraglia of Uncouth Vermouth
• The multifaceted life of Peter M.F. Sichel
• Josh Jensen and Pinot Noir
• Cristina Mariani-May of Banfi Vintners
• Melissa Diedericks, marketing manager South Africa for Earthbound organic and Fairtrade wines
• McGuigan Wines’ Neil McGuigan
• Who are the most important people in the wine industry?

WINE PLACES

• Familial winemaking: Everyone’s involved at the Young Inglewood Winery
• The leap of Donnafugata

ACADEMIA

• What Penn State Extension Means to Me: From a Non-Agricultural Student to Today’s Extension Enologist

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Meet Genesis, The Winemaking Robot

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK sales of sparkling wine top £1 billion
• Tuscany creates a major new body
• Cognac Money Is Funding French Drones to Cross the Atlantic

DOWN UNDER

• Australian wine industry shrinks
• OZ: How an Artists Cooperative is Supporting Local Winemakers and Breweries
• A Tale of Two McLaren Vales
• NZ: Wine Brand’s Sporting Connection Raises Eyebrows
• Australian wine region of Victoria has varied climates, wine styles
• OZ: Two decades of cropping data show ongoing impact of Millennium Drought in north west Victoria
• 10 fastest growing ‘alternative’ grapes in Australia

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Online wine sales in China rising fast
• Entry-level wine ‘most popular’ among HK consumers
• Learning about Spirits in China – WSET Level 2

LATIN AMERICA

• Executives in CA Wine Biz Engage Leaders in Chile, Argentina

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• How to open a bottle of wine using keys

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Farming Seen as a Promising Alternative to Ailing Citrus Industry in Florida

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS – Including the following top headlines:

• Strike Looming Between Teamsters And Columbia Distributing (WA)
• Spirits Continue to Gain Momentum in Sales
• Craft Beer is Dead
• Does “Craft” Whisky Still Exist?
• The Sweet, Boozy Rise of Adult Soda
• Battling Big Beer, Part II

Get the rest of today’s craft news at Craft Beverage Insights