NEWS FETCH — May 18, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Lead, cancer, arsenic and now BPA — A new Prop 65 warning requirement hits food, alcoholic beverage retailers.
• Far Niente Family Feud Ends with Winery Sale
• UN pesticide panel issues summary report clearing glyphosate (PDF)
• 2016 Begins With a Fair Amount of Variation in Consumer Confidence
• U.S. Economic Confidence Holds Steady at -14
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• Australian wine exports pop cork breaking through $2 billion
• Freeze and flood: a rough start to the Burgundy 2016 vintage
• Cold snap damages wine grape crops in Minnesota, Wisconsin
• US Prepares for Another English Invasion
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Big brands swallow up Bay Area culinary and wine producers
• Garagiste Wine Festival features renegade wineries
• When climate change causes Californians to migrate to Oregon and Washington
• What is West Burgundy Wine Collective?
• Wendy Narby to Host Bordeaux Bootcamp on June 11th
• Cecchetti Latest Benefactor of Wine Business Education
• California raisins still largely harvested by hand
• Deadline to reserve USA Trade Tasting Exhibitor space with super early bird pricing is 31 May, 2016. Reserve your spot with 25% down and save $900. *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• California weighs next step for saving water in drought
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein pushes Senate subcommittee for water bill to address California’s drought
• Fishery Agency Slams Feinstein Drought Bill
• An argument for the Delta tunnels: Essential truths and myths about California water
• Restore the Delta responds to Secretary Laird’s speech
• The 2016 emergency conservation regulations: The moral hazard of mandatory measures
• Shallow water: Solving the mysteries of the Delta islands sale

RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• Drought brings new attention to recycled water

FINANCE, M&A

• Far Niente Wine Estates announces investment from private equity firm

DISTRIBUTORS

• Southern Wine & Spirits of Florida Announces New Artisanal Fine Wine & Spirits Division
• Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s the Checklist *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Britain overtaken in fine wine at auction by China and the US
• NVV announces details of HK sale
• HDH celebrates ‘superb’ auction
• Bordeaux 2015: trickle of uninspiring releases continue
• Lafon Rochet 2015 – rocketing

HEALTH

• Drinking less wine can help women look & feel better
• 25 Ways Red Wine Is Healthy–and Horrible–for You
• What it’s like to quit drinking

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Making it easier for more NJ restaurants to serve wine and beer
• Group Wants To Voters To Decide If Retail Beer And Wine Sales Should Be Allowed In The Heights (TX)

DATA & TRENDS

• Wine Consumer Insights – Brought to You by Delectable + TMRW Engine

MARKETING & SALES

• How The Rise Of Foodie Culture Is Changing Retail CRE
• How Are Brands Meeting, and Exceeding, Customer Expectations?

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• How wine bottle labels affect sales

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Some notable ideas from this year’s Wine Intelligence Trends Workshop tour
• 10 Tips to Designing the Perfect Trade Advert *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Top 10 tips: Facebook for wine brands
• Social Listening Is Key, but What Should Brands Be Listening for?
• Publishers and brands, get ready for the Snapchat algorithm
• Twitter will show ads to people who see tweets but aren’t Twitter users
• The upside of Facebook’s unprecedented power
• Facebook apologises after global outage left brands and publishers unable to post updates

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• What to expect from the federal overtime rules
• How to Draft a Non-Compete Agreement That’s Actually Enforceable

MEDIA MATTERS

• Printed Book Sales Rise For First Time In Four Years As Ebooks Decline
• Copywriting problem number 1 – people don’t read
• Two Mysteries Half a Continent Apart in New Winemaker Detective Novel from Le French Book

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Is Your Food ‘Natural’? F.D.A. to Weigh In
• One of wine’s secret pleasures is anticipation
• The chemistry behind the flavor
• 13 Things You Didn’t Know About Provençal Rosé
• A Wave of Outstanding Wines Has Arrived
• Aging Wine Gracefully
• How to be a wine taster: calm down, enjoy the experience, and meditate if that helps

WINE PLACES

• When Shoreditch met Africa
• Insolent and unruly: Corbières

WINE EDUCATION

• New Jersey Wine School Brings the Italian Wine Scholar Study & Certification Program to Jersey City

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Police seize 650 cases of wine at CDN synagogue in Montreal
• Hundreds help launch Walla Walla Valley’s Pambrun in style
• Maine feels glow of golden era for extraordinary wine access

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Genetically Engineered Crops Are Safe
• Joe Dobbes’ thoughts on innovative processing equipment

EUROPE & THE UK

• English wine achieves ‘significant milestone’ in US
• Data is driving Co-op wine range changes to help continue growth
• The most drunk wine in the world comes to Europe

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Family-run Best’s Wines still going strong after 150 years
• OZ: Viticulture app to use AI to support on-farm decisions
• OZ: Canberra’s winemakers welcome backpacker tax delay

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Wine market shrugs off slump as consumers raise their glasses
• Tianjin Free Trade Zone to build a wine warehouse and trading hub
• Spanish wine, to the conquest of China
• Georgia wins case to trademark its wine in China
• China learns to sip

MARIJUANA

• It’s time to get sommelier-serious about cannabis

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

• MillerCoors Comes Out Swinging Against Pabst Allegations
• Soda Industry Fails to Stop San Francisco Law Targeting Sugar
• The Importance of Defining Small and Independent
• Craft beer report by the numbers
• Appalachian Mountain Brewery Announces Record Revenues

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