NEWS FETCH — April 20, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Did Fidelity Cheat Peter Deutsch Out of Millions of Dollars?
• Ste. Michelle Wine Estates Buys Patz & Hall
• Treasury: Cheap wine damaging our brand overseas (Calif should take note)
• Wine Auctioneer Acker Merrall & Condit in Talks with Potential Chinese Partner
• Feds establish Lewis-Clark Valley AVA, modify Columbia Valley
• Weather blamed for big drop in Napa grape harvest
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• Earliest Rioja vintage in history given official thumbs up
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Gerwan farm worker decertification fight is nowhere near over
• Annual Saqui Ag-Employer Conference on 5/11/16
• Bill Price changes the name of his business
• California Coastal Town Sets The Pace For Stewardship Travel
• The soul of Napa Valley suffers
• California has nation’s dirtiest air
• Major earthquake overdue in California’s Eastern Sierra
• Days left to save $1500 on USA Trade Tasting Exhibitor Registrations. Super Early Bird Ends April 30 .*Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Delta tunnel critics put project to votes
• We can better deal with drought with more data
• What is happening in the Delta this year?
• California’s Delta-groundwater nexus: Delta effects of ending Central Valley groundwater overdraft?
• Farms that grow groundwater
• Method could help enhance water storage

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• WineDirect Announces Free Upgrades to 2Day Air

DISTRIBUTORS

• Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s the Checklist *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Five times that Robert Parker moved the Bordeaux market
• Parker’s ‘cult’ 100-point Bordeaux
• Château Palmer Puts Barrel on the Block
• 1969 Salon steals the show at Zachys sale

HEALTH

• Middle-aged drinkers ‘pre-load’ just like their children
• Beer Is The New Wine: Flavonoid In Hops Lowers Cholesterol, Blood Sugar And Weight Gain
• Alcohol flush or ‘Asian Glow’

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Recommended Changes to New York’s Alcohol Laws
• Think grapes, grain and fruit. Nobody has a bigger stake in the Supreme Court’s decision on Obama’s immigration plan than agriculture.
• TN: Wine may not hit some grocery stores until 2017

MARKETING & SALES

• Why Jägermeister thinks creating a single customer view is ‘narrow minded’

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Kingsland Drinks unveils carbonation line for sparkling wine

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Jeff Cohn to moderate panel discussion about oak pricing, supply and other trends
• Brandmuscle Educates Beverage Distributors About Local Digital Marketing Opportunities at WSWA
• 10 Tips to Designing the Perfect Trade Advert *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Facebook is thinking about letting its users tip each other
• Could a revived Ello be the next big thing in visual social media?
• Up Periscope! The Next Wave Of Social Connectivity

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Praying To Avoid Religious Accommodation Lawsuits EEOC Religious Discrimination Cases From 2015

MEDIA MATTERS

• Book Review: For the Love of Wine
• ‘The pageview is antiquated’: How Purch is trying to measure true reader impact

MATTERS OF TASTE

• 5 American Wine Traditions Worth Keeping
• It’s All Just Myths, You See
• This Bartender Is Making Wine Without Grapes or a Vineyard
• The Trouble With Sparkling Wine
• Grapefruit Wine Is France’s Latest Obsession

WINE PEOPLE

• New York’s Best Sommelier Hails From Philly
• Reichardt offers one glass for all wines
• A Fierce Toast From Alice Feiring’s Drinking Horn

WINE PLACES

• ‘Backyard wineries’ thriving, enjoyable

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Old English sheep breed makes for a good wine on the southern highlands of New South Wales.

EUROPE & THE UK

• New ranking system for Crémant de Bourgogne
• Torres: “I wouldn’t invest in southern Spain”
• UK: Co-op remains tight-lipped on plans to sell off 300 stores
• A sommelier on Spain: Quality wines at value prices

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Marlborough signs up to new relationship with Chinese wine-growing region
• Owners of Hunter Valley vineyard go back to the drawing broad with new $12 million price

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Tasting China’s New, $250-a-Bottle Luxury Wine

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS – A Sampling of Today’s Headlines

• The Craft Beer Attorney Announces Formation of Non-Profit Alliance of Craft Beer Lawyers Nationwide
• Top 5 TTB Application Tips
• Facebook Issues Last Call On Whiskey Secondary Market Groups
• The continuing tsunami of breweries, 2016
• Major breweries experience record-high M&A

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