NEWS FETCH — April 1, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Finra Suspends Tech Banking Legend Hambrecht from Wall Street
• Finra’s Hambrecht Action No Surprise to Wine Industry Insight readers
• TTB Publishes Two AVA Final Rules: Willamette Valley and Loess Hills District
• Wilson Artisan Wineries Acquires Anderson Valley’s Greenwood Ridge Vineyards
• Pierce’s Disease-Resistant Grapes Coming Soon
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• Seeking Clean Vines for N.Y. Vineyards
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma advisory commission OKs Beltane winery expansion
• Young’s Market backs Sonoma State University wine education center
• Rodney Strong Wine Estates Announces Executive Team Promotions

DROUGHT/WATER

• Local water districts get a break on conservation requirements
• Dianne Feinstein says water wars tougher than assualt weapons ban
• What California’s improved snowpack means for the drought, water supply
• Contra Costa Water District signs agreement with DWR on water from Delta tunnels
• Deal with the drought or just keep suing?
• Water managers drop the ball on Hetch Hetchy

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• An Inconvenient Truth About Free Trade

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• How Much Do You Know About Australian Vintage?

FINANCE, M&A

• Champagne Chalet & Vineyard Can Be Yours For $3.7 Million

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bordeaux 2015: Only kill what you can eat
• The 2015 Bordeaux Barrels Diary: The Tower Stands Tall

HEALTH

• Public awareness of link between alcohol and cancer ‘worryingly low’ (UK)
• Spit or Die

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Upcoming CLE on Wine Law

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• 4 wine buying tips for weddings
• How To Order Wine On A Date When You Know Nothing, From A Wine Expert
• What to drink from Italy
• Swapping Street Cred for Safe Wine Choices

MARKETING & SALES

• 5 Easy Ways to Know If Your Winery Should Outsource Telesales
• Market mobile friendly online or die! 2/3 of your customer eyeballs aren’t looking at a desktop.
• 3 reasons why online quizzes are a good marketing strategy

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• The big deal about a wine glass

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Sparkling Wine Symposium
• 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

• Social Media Analytics, Part 1
• Remembering Klout: how ‘influence’ has changed over the years
• How brands can make the most of Instagram’s new algorithm
• Moët Hennessy website to close

MEDIA MATTERS

• UGC: the real reason that wine writers are an endangered species
• New book release: Wine Safety, Consumer Preference, and Human Health
• Director Davide Vanni debuts “Vitae” a new documentary film at ViniVer
• An App To Make You Write, Not Stop And Edit

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The potential use of yeast lees (1-3, 1-6)-β-glucans as functional food ingredients
• Beer’s Future Through a Wineglass Darkly
• To Age or Not to Age
• Unearthed – the true story of the birth of wine
• The growing taste for bone-dry riesling

WINE PEOPLE

• Daryl Eklund Named U.S. Sales Manager for Parramon
• Q&A: Mike Laing of Armit Wines
• LangeTwins Family’s Kendra Altnow
• David Bonomi, Bodega Norton
• Women making inroads in the wine industry
• This Vintner Wants You To Try Weirder Wines

WINE PLACES

• Happy Birthday Quinta do Noval
• At COS, the Future of Wine Comes from the Past

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Nova Scotia vintners are winning with wine

ACADEMIA

• 2016 Wine and Law Program at the University of Reims

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Wine Industry in U.K. Braced for a Boost From Warmer Climate

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Integrated ecosystem modeling for adaptive management: Lessons from 40 years of decision support in the Great Lakes
• Three Tips For Preventing Trunk Disease
• Purdue Startup Uncorks Grape Technology for Winemakers
• The power of oxygen during fermentation

EUROPE & THE UK

• Why Italy Is Mulling Wine Classes For Schoolchildren
• Port not ‘second division’ of world’s fine wines
• UK: Supermarkets need to ‘ditch portfolio deals’

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Interim Winemakers’ Federation CEO announced
• Barossa Valley and The Wines of South Australia
• OZ: Keeping wine as a family affair harder as big business moves in
• OZ: Big bag in a box a winner for Accolade Wines as CHAMP mulls exit

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Changyu to double wine schools teaching WSET
• Sales of Rioja up 35% in China in 2015
• Wine Comes to Myanmar

LATIN AMERICA

• Decanter travel guide: Salta, Argentina

SOUTH AFRICA

• Changes to the South African Wine Legislation

NOTE THE DATE, AND BELIEVE AT YOUR OWN STUPIDITY RISK

• Big Wine to become one company
• Italians fear wine drought after Germans eat all the grapes
• Scientists mix DNA from coffee and grapevine to combat climate change
• Parking kiosks to be converted to draught beer dispensers
• The first self-opening wine bottle
• Bordeaux investor buys Chinese winery, sparks new trend
• db editor to host wine tasting in space

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

• The Pay-to-Play Scandal In The Beer Biz: How Far It Goes Nobody Knows
• U.S. Soda Consumption Hits 30-Year Low
• Have We Hit Peak Fruit In Craft Brewing?
• Can the craft movement do for cola what it’s done for beer?
• China is Now The World’s Largest Beer Market

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