NEWS FETCH — April 29, 2016

TOP NEWS

• UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi on investigatory leave due to ‘serious questions’
• Diageo plagued by debts of Vijay Mallya, Indian ‘King of Good Times’
• Two charged in thefts of thousands in high-end wine from French Laundry
• Glyphosate in wine study gets legs from San Francisco TV story
• Inside The $346 Million Wine Auction Industry
• Burgundy hit by ‘worst frost since 1981’
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• Northwest Grapegrowing Season Powers Up
• Burgundy frosts leave producers feeling “helpless”
• Italian growers spared frost as freezing temperatures arrive in France
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Deerfield Ranch Winery Successfully Exits Chapter 11
• Bulgheroni estate slates renovation for new winery
• Urban vineyard proposed at Fruitridge-area cemetery
• Whitehall Lane Winery Hires Jason Moulton as New Winemaker
• Celebrating Robert Mondavi’s legacy
• May 5 Community Event Celebrates Sonoma State Cellars
• Days left to save $1500 on USA Trade Tasting Exhibitor Registrations. Super Early Bird Ends April 30 .*Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• California Water Alliance on water and the marijuana initiative
• Little rain, but El Nino brings deluge of data for Southern California scientists
• San Diego: After a rush to build costly treatment plants, they’re now sitting unused
• NASA helps monitor LA coastline

RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• Can wastewater save the Bay from sea level rise?

FINANCE, M&A

• FASB rule changes bring big shift in wine lease accounting
• Wine M&A experts: Deals abound in buyer’s market
• Value Ignored: Crimson Wine Group

DISTRIBUTORS

• How to negotiate a better deal
• Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s the Checklist *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• First Bordeaux Prices Raise Merchant Hopes
• Pilot’s vast duty-free wine collection discovered
• Bordeaux 2015: Doisy, Sigalas and Guiraud

HEALTH

• Coffee, Wine Good for Healthy Gut, Sodas May Be Bad
• Cheese, wine and family: the Italian way to live beyond 100

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Supermajority of States Bans Powdered Alcohol
• Oklahoma lawmaker apologizes for linking Native Americans to alcoholism

DATA & TRENDS

• Wealthy And Educated Americans Drink The Most

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Parker’s 100 point wines don’t sell out anymore
• eBay wants to be a part of a business that has a $1.4 billion potential — but it might be too late
• 6 Tips For The Rising Star Sommelier
• The HoseMaster of Wine on our forgotten wine critics
• Tasting the HoseMaster’s medicine

MARKETING & SALES

• 6 ‘Tone-Deaf’ Ads That Got Companies in Trouble and Damaged Their Brands

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• DIRECT 2016 Breakout Session Announcement!
• Trade talk: Why attend the London Wine Fair?
• 10 Tips to Designing the Perfect Trade Advert *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Leveraging social influencers is paramount for audience-targeting
• 5 Tips for Running Your Best Social Media Campaign Ever
• Twitter now bills itself as a news app, not a social network
• Twitter and Facebook want publishers and brands to stop promoting their Snapchat accounts

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Washington Reds Develop a Bite
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Barbera Wine
• Revisiting Veneto

WINE PEOPLE

• Marcus Notaro builds Red Mountain-Napa Valley connection
• Reflecting on those we lost in the wine trade this year
• Q&A: Damian Clarke of Freixenet

WINE PLACES

• A Wine Lover’s Tour of Portugal
• A Rainy Day in Porto

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• An inside look at the Washington DC on-trade
• Promotion has led to new VA wine exports

ACADEMIA

• The fruits of fly research

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Global Wine Producers Environmental Sustainability Principles (PDF)

EUROPE & THE UK

• Château de Sours ex-owner buys Pomerol estate
• Brexit: big trouble for British tourism
• Simpsons ramp up English sparkling project

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Wine industry heads deny demand for Marlborough sauvignon blanc declining

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa: Sustainable Winemaking the Way of the Future
• Lifting the bar in South Africa
• South Africa: Kleine Zalze marks 20 years with investment in the future
• South Africa: Do we need affirmative action for reds?

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Use This Cool Hack to Chill a Bottle of Wine Fast

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

• 2016 Hop Stocks Report – looking forward to a great year for hops
• St-Germain Is Ubiquitous & It’s All Because Of An Entreprenuer Who Didn’t Take No For An Answer
• The Wine-ification of Beer
• Heineken’s Global Brew Master reveals a seismic change in the beer industry

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