NEWS FETCH — March 18, 2016

TOP NEWS

• TTB Offers Clarification On Recent Tied-House Ruling
• Oregon Wine Research Institute Stakeholder Report (PDF)
• California farms added 30,000 jobs in 2015 despite drought
• Climate Change Spells Trouble for Calif. Water
• The Number of Women Winemakers Is Growing, and Fast
• Voluntary GMO labeling bill stalls in Senate
• USATT is live and here! Meet the world from March 21-23 in NYC. *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• UC Davis conference offers insights into the changing Chinese wine market
• Bank of the West adds beer, spirits to wine group
• Speaker Lineup for the First Napa Roadshow is announced
• Sinegal Estate tasting room opens at historic Inglewood property
• Tricycle appoints new national sales manager
• Thompson, Beckstoffer and Hatton to lead wine auction for Lake County
• The French Laundry is selling its fancy temporary kitchen
• Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• State Water Project Allocation Increased to 45%
• How would CA seize Paso Robles water basin?
• Water outlook: From ‘doom and gloom’ to ‘pretty positive’
• Decision time for California governor’s big water project
• Despite Rain, California Farmers Fear Another Zero Water Allocation
• Things to know about California’s giant twin tunnels project
• Water Is Broken. Data Can Fix It.
• Central coast ag sector aims to thrive in dry spell
• Improving adaptive management in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
• Groundwater and Stream Interaction in California’s Central Valley
• March 2016 El Niño update: Spring Forward

RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• Recycled Water a Healthy Option for California, Study Suggests

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Marlboro HS grad sends wine samples to your door (CA)
• How to manage cashflow to expand your winery operations, sales and distribution. *Sponsored Link*

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Trans-Pacific agreement should benefit U.S, Mexico

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine Estates Ltd’s Trend Down, Especially After Today’s Gap Down

FINANCE, M&A

• Chinese winery Changyu hunting for more foreign purchases
• Who’s involved in a chateau purchase?
• Paolo Bulgari buys major stake in Sarment

DISTRIBUTORS

• Last week to get your USA Trade Tasting Conference Tickets at Early Bird Price *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Ginsberg+Chan’s top rare Champagne collection
• ‘Encouraging’ claret results at Sotheby’s
• ‘Spectacular’ Burgundy results at Christie’s

HEALTH

• Wine Compound Resveratrol’s Latest Role: Killer of Leukemia Cells

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Wine tax break sought in MN
• Tennessee Legislation Assists Convenience Stores in Selling Wine

DATA & TRENDS

• Millennials Catch Boomers in Wine Consumption

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Why It’s So Hard For Wines From Other Countries To Make It In America
• Saving thousands on wine by refusing to shop like the average retail consumer.
• 7 ways to make your BYO wine experience better

MARKETING & SALES

• Five Tips For Globalizing An Iconic Irish Brand: St Patrick’s Day, With A Twist Of Kimchi
• No Longer Any Separation between User Experience and Brand Perception
• Online wine: retailers should ‘remove clutter’
• “Very dangerous” to raise wine prices in ultra-competitive, low-brand-loyalty market
• Online wine retailing: top tips
• The rapper’s Champagne

CUSTOMER RELATIONS

• Will a Poor Customer Experience Affect Future Purchases?
• Wine Retailer Toasts Superior Customer Support

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWein 2016 Reveals Insightful Consumer Trends and Racks Record-Breaking Visitors
• Wine Importers and Distributors, meet the world in NYC and source your next brand at USATT. Get your trade Pass Now and Avoid Gate Fee. *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• 7 Ways to Online Improve Engagement With Visual Content
• There’s now a machine that knows when you’re tweeting drunk
• Instagram to adopt the dreaded ‘algorithm’, posts will show out of chronological order, everyone panic!
• Pinterest starts testing video ads
• Twitter is killing TweetDeck for Windows on April 15

MEDIA MATTERS

• ‘The Winemaker’: Dick Peterson’s ‘joyous, honest’ memoir
• Google’s Analytics 360 Suite just changed the game

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Mad About Madeira: The Rise of Portugal’s Historic Fortified Wine
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly… of natural wine
• Enjoying white wines all year round
• You can’t make great wine from young vines
• Hints of vanilla means American oak?
• I Have Lost My Next Big Thing and Don’t Know Where to Find It
• Why wine is cool

WINE PEOPLE

• Wine Country’s unsung hero: Chuy Ordaz
• Champagne scientist: Frédéric Panaïotis, Ruinart’s chef de cave
• Nick Vorpagel, Lake Geneva Country Meats (podcast)
• El Al sommelier keeps it Kosher in-flight with Israeli wine showcase

WINE PLACES

• A Wine Lover’s Guide to Florence
• Five sparkling wine regions to visit
• The world’s booziest countries
• Barnoa Wine Company

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Vital Winery launches non – profit wine label to help fund Better healthcare for vineyard, winery workers in Walla Walla Valley (PDF)

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Sustaining our wine, Part Two

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Stabilizing Wines in the Cellar
• What’s really conducting that fermentation?

EUROPE & THE UK

• Bacchus: England’s answer to Marlborough Sauvignon?
• Lost pensioners mistakenly destroy vines in Catalonia
• CIBV appoints Fiona Juby as UK market consultant
• Irish shun beer, whiskey in favour of … wine

DOWN UNDER

• Adelaide officially a “Great Wine Capital”
• Grape marc proves worth in SA
• Alcohol Beverages Australia Needs to Build Trust

LATIN AMERICA

• Terroir taking Argentine wines to ‘new level’
• Chilean wine to be promoted during Tour de France

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa: Young Winemakers Drive Change at Boschendal

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Wine vs. Beer at Purim? A Historical Perspective May Help

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• How to taste fancy wine like a boss

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

• Big Brands’ Perceptions Rebounding; Flavored Launches ‘Exploding’
• France takes top spot on world whisky-drinking table
• Top women who have made spirits history
• What do drinkers think ‘craft’ means?
• Guinness gets it: Distinctiveness sells beer

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