NEWS FETCH — February 17, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Wine Glimmers Like Gold as Investors See End to Stocks Rally
• Homestead Capital Expands Footprint in Wine Grape Production with Acquisition of Napa Vineyard
• Powerful Friday storm in Southern California; Warm & wet atmospheric river to affect Oroville Dam watershed Monday
• Fake Wine Is A Billion Dollar Market And Here Are The Ways To Identify Them
• Younger drinkers pay off for Virgin Wines
• South African Vintners Angry over Mining Permits in Swartland Wine Region
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Bordeaux 2016 – the largest harvest since 2006
• US wine exports, 1997 – 2016
• Armenian Sparkling Wine Production Rises 8.4%
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Cavallo Ventures, Inc. Growth With Strategic Investment In AgCode
• Chance of new El Niño is 50% for this fall, says National Weather Service
• Wine Institute Workshops on Food Safety Modernization Act
• California bill proposes 4 a.m. last call
• Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs. You can too. Click to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

OROVILLE DAM COVERAGE

• Oroville Dam, Thursday noon: Work continues on mitigating erosion; Flows are starting to ramp down
• Big-Picture Questions Raised by the Oroville Dam Emergency
• Oroville emergency a warning for U.S. dam safety
• Lessons California should learn from Oroville dam debacle
• Will the crisis at Oroville Dam become a catalyst for change?
• Oroville Dam: What made the spillway collapse?

DROUGHT/WATER

• Calif water storage at or above historical averages statewide
• Keeping California Wet (Not Flooded) Is Expensive
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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Tesco tempts indies with its scale

DISTRIBUTORS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• JD.com withdraws fraudulent Lafite
• Christie’s to host ex-cellar Figeac sale

DATA & TRENDS

• The countries that quaff the most wine per capita

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• 1095-B and 1095-C Reporting Deadline Approaching
• Tax relief bill for small Washington wineries moves along

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Italian Wine and its Truth-Adjacent Death Spiral

MARKETING & SALES

• Costco Wine Buyer Talks Shelf Strategy
• Are brands getting more global, or consumers more similar?
• Trump wine sales double in Virginia

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How brands can use social media analytics in 2017
• Is Snapchat Just a Fad?
• Google ditches 30-second unskippable ads on YouTube
• Snapchat’s user base has stalled. But that might not be a bad thing.

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Trump winery seeks more foreign help

MEDIA MATTERS

• The metaphysical challenges of wine writing

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Why Chilean Grapes Are Purer Than Any Others
• Can Ancient Techniques Make Modern Wine Better?

WINE PLACES

• Brut force: the winery in the middle of a war zone

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OR: Kramer Takes Charge at Willakenzie
• NY: Stew Leonard’s Wines fined $50,000 by state

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Another winter, more about sustainability

EUROPE & THE UK

• Bayer, Syngenta clash with EU regulators over insecticide bans

DOWN UNDER

• Australia highlights market prospects in Singapore & Malaysia
• Brexit an opportunity for NZ Méthode Marlborough

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Bottleshock: changing the way HK buys wine online

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Uber Wants To Use Facebook To Connect Pool Passengers Over Shared Interests

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Trouble brewing for Wal-Mart with lawsuit claiming there’s nothing ‘craft’ about its craft beer