NEWS FETCH — May 2, 2016

TOP NEWS

• LA County may lift restrictions on wine industry
• Judge refuses to halt Delta land sale to Southern California agency
• Who Owns Bankrupt Retailer Premier Cru’s Wine?
• DISCUS, Grocers Withdraw Oregon Privatization Initiative
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• Loire suffers serious and widespread frost damage on 27th April
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Approval of homeland for Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians clears path for casino
• Sonoma County Barrel Auction Up 50%
• Let’s step back from UC Davis turmoil
• Vineyard to Vintner ~ Celebrating Napa Valley’s Stags Leap District ~ Part 1
• Pinot noir is king at Sonoma County Barrel Auction
• Days left to save $1500 on USA Trade Tasting Exhibitor Registrations. Super Early Bird Ends April 30 .*Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Oakdale Irrigation District quietly cancels water deal
• Silicon Valley’s Biggest Drought Lessons
• Will California Ditch Water Conservation Mandate?
• Faulty comparison on Delta water exports, flows to San Francisco Bay
• Westlands water deal is all wet
• Ted Cruz has a Delta smelt plan: Disco ball, and a little Barry White
• Carly Fiorina doubles down on Delta smelt
• The Collapse of Water Exports – Los Angeles, 1914

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• TTIP trade talks: Greenpeace leak ‘shows risks of EU-US deal’

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Trone Will Step Back From Duties At Total Wine, CEO Kevin Peters Will Run Company
• Drinking Wine at Starbucks Is Kind of Depressing

FINANCE, M&A

• UK: Conviviality to acquire Bibendum PLB for £60m
• 3 ways to guard heirs from big wine realty tax bill
• The Stock Market Is Not A Slot Machine, Nor A Vending Machine

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 index was steady last week
• Forgotten wine set for $1.3m auction
• Neal Martin on Bordeaux 2015: “A narrow pyramid”
• Bordeaux 2015: ‘flashes of brilliance’
• `Sun’s Come Out’ for Bordeaux 2015
• Angelus Makes `Classical’ 2015 Vintage as Saint Emilion Shines
• Bordeaux 2015: Doisy, Sigalas and Guiraud

HEALTH

• Yes, healthy habits can include alcohol

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Marketing Activities of Vineyards: When Do Local Zoning Laws Apply?
• Montreal Police Seize 8,000 Bottles of Illegal Kosher-for-Passover Wine
• New Brunswick Case Strikes Down Interprov Liquor Restrictions

DATA & TRENDS

• Wealthy And Educated Americans Drink The Most

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Reality of Wine Prices (What You Get For What You Spend)
• Two Innovative Ways Sommeliers Are Taking A New Perspective On Wine Pairings (Part One)
• Innovative Ways Sommeliers are Taking A New Perspective on Wine Pairings (Part Two)

MARKETING & SALES

• American Academy of Pediatrics calls for crackdown on alcohol product placement
• EBay Aims For A Gulp Of The $15 Billion Dollar Wine Business

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Why should wine still be sold in a 75cl bottle?
• France – Common Wine Labelling Terms

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• 10 Tips to Designing the Perfect Trade Advert *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• VitiCanopy: A new smartphone and Tablet PC App to assess vigour and canopy architecture of Horticultural Trees

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Common Sense On Immigration
• Monotasking Gets A Makeover (NY Times)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Tasting: Finding Your Zone with Overlapping
• Don’t bother ‘demystifying’ wine – the magic is in what we don’t know
• All about Alsace wines – grapes, oak, names and what makes them special
• On the importance of decent wine glasses
• Barolo: I Am Not Ready. Wait!
• The Art Of The Swirl

WINE PEOPLE

• Manuel Lozano, head winemaker of Lustau, dies
• Andrew Stover: The local name that connects extraordinary wines
• McLaren Vale winemaker Steve Pannell: the red baron
• Frank Margan: A rebel from the days when wine meant sherry
• Meet the British diplomat, scientist and privateer who invented the wine bottle
• Q&A: Edouard Moueix, Bordeaux Négociant
• Charles Philipponnat of Champagne Philipponnat (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Larzac: The New Kid on the ‘Doc
• Jefford on Monday: Dr Mistral

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Oregon’s next AVA a lesson in persistence
• WA: New winery to open doors in Prosser

ACADEMIA

• Ohio State Fills Three Grape Industry Positions

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• OR: King Estate seeks status as largest biodynamic vineyard in U.S.

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Components of an Insecticide Resistance Management Strategy for Grape Berry Moth

EUROPE & THE UK

• Taxes on wines in Europe may impact market
• Welsh vineyards ‘could increase to 50 by 2035’
• Just who are the Italians making wine for?
• Italians, forget the French!

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: A New Urban Winery

SOUTH AFRICA

• South African Wine’s U-Turn on Terroir

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine Lobbyists Won’t Toast Donald Trump

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

• America has been drinking out of ‘the worst thing that ever happened to beer’
• California Retailers Now Required to Post BPA Warning Signs
• This Is Reasonable Proof That Big Craft Is Losing It
• Pacific Northwest hop acreage still climbing
• American Academy of Pediatrics calls for crackdown on alcohol product placement

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