NEWS FETCH — March 31, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Can a Strong 2015 Vintage Change the Game for Sagging Bordeaux?
• Science on your tongue: How the bacteria in your mouth can affect the way you taste wine
• America Drinks More Pink, So Provence Is In The Black
• Questions and answers about Saudi land purchases in the U.S.
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• Bordeaux 2015 Weather Report
• South Africa: Sijnn Harvest Report 2016
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Average snowpack could prolong California water conservation
• Sierra Nevada Snowpack Grew During First Half of March, But Dry Spell Leaves Water Content Still below Average
• Did all that El Niño rain finally end the drought?
• Pending Delta decisions and their potential economic and other impacts on San Francisco and the Bay Area, part 2
• Drought rules likely to be relaxed
• Energy Innovation Has Lessons for Water Sector

RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• A new strategy for drought-stressed cities: graywater recycling

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine boss Michael Clarke a winner after ditching Oxo cubes for Grange

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Burgundy ‘unprepared’ for counterfeiting
• The 2015 Bordeaux Barrels Diary: A Man of Many Hats
• Bonhams lines up the claret and Champagne

HEALTH

• Red wine is not the magic bullet
• Resveratrol Improves NASH Biomarkers
• Protecting Health or Spreading Fear? The Battle Over GMO Labeling Goes National

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• TTB responds to open letter on alcohol levels in wine

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Why do you read about wine you can’t buy?
• Why you really should try French red wines from Canada
• The best Bordeaux restaurant wine lists

MARKETING & SALES

• Millennials value healthy and sustainable and are willing to pay more for it than any other generation

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• The Country That Created Boxed Wine Could Ban It
• Labelmates: Barrel + Ink and the Art of Wine

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• International Cool Climate Wine Symposium organisers expecting a sellout
• 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

• Smartphones, social media forge paths to younger wine drinkers
• This chart demolishes the theory that millennials are abandoning Facebook
• Are Algorithmic Feeds Becoming the Norm on Social Media?

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Wine Industry Recruiting in a Tight Market

MEDIA MATTERS

• How to run a press trip: Five tips to ensure successful outcomes

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Why This Fortified Wine From Spain Is Making a Comeback
• The Winemaker’s Choice: To Blend Or Not To Blend
• Why Swirling Makes Wine Taste Better
• What makes a wine kosher?
• On Minerality: These Wines ‘Rock’
• Postcard from Portugal: Vinho Verde
• Ice wine: Frozen nectar from heaven

WINE PEOPLE

• Millennial Joey Wölffer Forges A Path For The Next Generation Winery
• The Alexanders and the Reincarnation of Pythagoras
• Guillaume Deglise, CEO of Wine Fair Vinexpo
• August Deimel: Keuka Spring Vineyard

WINE PLACES

• The Official Travel Guide To Bordeaux

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• On the rocky shores of Nova Scotia, Canada’s next great wine region
• Teutonic wine tasting room, Viking bites land in Southeast (OR)

ACADEMIA

• French students eliminate laboratories from wine-production process
• Wine 101: California’s institutions of higher learning

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Climate Change Drives UK Wine Production

EUROPE & THE UK

• Understanding Chablis, home to some of Burgundy’s best white wines
• English wine drinkers must be more like the Germans
• London: Bag-in-box wine pop-up set to return

DOWN UNDER

• Victoria’s wine industry ripe for growth
• Australian wine trade invited to Tasmania
• Falcons, Sheep, And Sauvignon Blanc: More Faces Of New Zealand Wine

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• ASC Fine Wines plans ‘rebirth’ with new sales strategies for China
• Ningxia Wine Cultural Communication Center founded in Beijing

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Russia Charges Wealthy Businessman With Illegal Wine Smuggling

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The correct way to pronounce 9 French brand names you’ve been saying all wrong
• What the Bible says about Wine

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

• That ‘craft’ beer you’re digging is probably not a craft beer after all
• Heaven Hill’s Evan Williams Crosses 2 Million Cases, Projects Further Growth Ahead
• Why Have There Been So Few Women In The World Of Whiskey?
• Water: The Overlooked Essential

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