NEWS FETCH — April 4, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Arizona Passes Consumer-Friendly Winery Direct Shipping Law
• Can Constellation Brands End Fiscal 2016 on a High Note?
• Bureau of reclamation shorts Central Valley on irrigation water
• How Will Wage Hike Affect the CA Wine Industry?
• William Rice, former Chicago Tribune food and wine journalist, dies at age 77
• NY Times finally discovers Premier Cru Scam
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Walt Ranch heads to Monday showdown
• Vision 2050 forum looks at tourism — the good and bad
• The truth about the 1976 Judgment of Paris
• Young’s Market Invests in Wine Business Learning Co
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Easing California’s drought restrictions would be a mistake
• Healdsburg may expand water reuse program
• Many Central Valley farmers face severe water shortages despite easing drought
• The Rise of the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge
• Water allocation has winners and losers
• Northern California: 100% water allocation will boost farmland production
• Life after water: The drought from one farmer’s perspective (video)
• Reactions to Central Valley Project water allocation
• ENSO the Wet Season Ends (almost) – March 31, 2016

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Wine Institute Applauds Arizona Passage of Expanded Direct-to-Consumer Wine Shipping Bill

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• What leaving the EU would really mean for British trade deals

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Yellow Tail owner Casella’s profit up after acquisition spree

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bordeaux Primeurs 2015: A profoundly Human vintage
• Bordeaux 2015 en primeur: High hopes but nerves linger on price
• Touch of ‘March madness’ for fine wine
• Liv-ex 100 gains 2.7%: its biggest monthly rise in three years
• Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 continued its rally higher last week

HEALTH

• Major new meta-analysis says alcohol consumption increases pancreatic cancer risk
• Why a little wine may do you some good
• What you need to know about alcohol use disorder

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• OK: Time running out for action on beer, wine proposal
• Independent Retailer Applejack Wine & Spirits Braces For Change As Chains Eye Colorado

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• When you’re choosing a rosé, vintage matters
• Scores, stores and wineries: a new analysis
• On scores and tasting notes

MARKETING & SALES

• Tasting Room Fees – A Bitter Taste At Times?
• The Acquired Taste of Millennials
• 5 ways brands can avoid having their ‘authentic’ marketing backfire

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Filling bag-in-box wine on a bottling line (video)
• 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

• 4 Social Media Sites Small Businesses Should Use More Often
• Congratulations. You survived the Great Instagram Upset of 2016. Now what?
• Here’s how Pinterest is pitching advertisers
• Snapchat now lets you have longer captions

PAYMENTS

• If you want to sell to younger Millennials, you’ve GOT to accept mobile payments
• Sending payments online: what business need to know

MEDIA MATTERS

• Blinders by Michael Amon ~ The most fun read in a very long time

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Chianti Classico: Characterful Wines at Value Prices
• Do you have to “love wine” to love wine?
• Letting the wine stew: Maceration – factors that influence wine
• WineBerserkers dot com kicks off Battles of Taste series
• Why Do Wines Change Color As They Age?

WINE PEOPLE

• Emma Rice, Hattingley Valley
• For wine mogul David Trone, congressional race is unfinished business
• Alexandre and François Thienpont of Vieux Château Certan (podcast)
• Virginia Winemakers (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Good times and sensational wines at Whalebone Winery
• The Spanish Wine Regions You Should Be Visiting Right Now
• Countries where you can’t drink alcohol

WINE TOURISM

• Georgia to re-launch Wine Route Project

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Washington Wine Commission Surveying Industry on Research
• VA: Kroger proposal would change how beer and wine are marketed
• Winemakers of Santa Lucia Highlands balance art, science (TN)

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Chilean winery opens first biogas plant to run on harvest waste
• Natural, Organic, Biodynamic, Sustainable: The Rise of Virtuous Wines
• Wine industry is growing organically
• Climate change is turning these unexpected regions into the next wine hotspots

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Social microbes and Schizosaccharomyces pombe

EUROPE & THE UK

• Anti-fraud squad raids Burgundy producer Bejot Vins et Terroirs
• Boutinot’s parent-company In Vino buys Moreno Wines
• English Wine: Premature Hopes
• Scrapping over burgundy
• Graham’s Celebrates Queen’s Birthday with Rare Port

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Ballast Stone wine estate near Adelaide put up for sale
• OZ: Vineyard values still in the doldrums
• OZ: Blue skies for wine industry, but dark clouds on the horizon

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China fast developing taste for Australian wine

LATIN AMERICA

• The Fiendish Plot (And Fiendishly Good Wine) of Dr. O. Fournier

SOUTH AFRICA

• If SA wine rates so high, why is our market share not increasing?

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Emirates ups investment in wine as part of long-term strategy

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

• Cider is growing ‘like craft beer on steroids’ in the US
• How to be the best damn branded brewery around
• New California law sparks growth among craft distillers
• The Acquired Taste of Millennials
• Non-Scotch Whisky Sales Will Continue to Soar

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