NEWS FETCH — April 3, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Calif could be headed for needless woes in cannabis trademark legislation
• Treasury Wine Estates to sell two Hawke’s Bay vineyards
• SC high court overturns liquor license limit after Total Wine challenge
• Trump approves funds for California disaster relief, including $274 million for Oroville Dam
• Are Consumer Confidence Gains Becoming Delusional? (PDF)
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Trinchero Family Estates fined $44,575 in accidental death of cellar worker

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• North Coast vintners shouldn’t bet on return of excess high-end winegrapes
• Exhibitor Space at USA Trade Tasting 2017 Is Now Completely Sold Out *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa’s Dodd to co-chair Senate Select Committee on Wine
• Thomas Keller’s Addendum eatery re-opens for the season
• Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs. You can too. Click to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Why Oroville Dam woes could cut into California water supplies
• The big melt: Here it comes, most reservoirs will be fine
• Oroville Dam documents kept secret by the state, federal officials
• Down the DRAIN: California gets a jump on Delta tunnels
• EPA, State Water Board cleaned or tested 381 abandoned storage tanks, reducing groundwater threats

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• A Real Estate Boom, Powered by Pot
• Cashing in on cannabis: How new freedoms began a green gold rush in the United States
• Could the extraordinary compound in cannabis that helps kids with epilepsy make you feel better?

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• What is Wine Freedom?
• USATT 2017: Back & Better *Sponsored Link*

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Wine and beer won’t rescue Target

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Provinces poised to sign historic Canadian Free Trade Agreement in April

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Willamette Valley wineries raise $472K in 80 minutes with barrel auction
• Talking Trade: Burgundy gaining market share, Cheval Blanc soars
• The Macallan sets new world record at Sotheby’s HK auction
• Cheval Blanc 1947 Double Magnum Fetches $105,000 at Sotheby’s

BORDEAUX 2016

• James Suckling publishes further Bordeaux 2016 scores: “It’s a Left Bank year!”
• All you need to know about Bordeaux 2016

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Texas senator pushes to abolish liquor store ownership limits
• Utah: Blanding putting beer and wine sales on the ballot

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Ignoring the wine snobs
• How large is between-critic variation in quality scores?

MARKETING & SALES

• The Importance of Establishing a Marketing Plan & Budget for Alcohol Beverage Branding

CUSTOMER RELATIONS

• The Silver Lining of Customer Problems (Part 4)

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Google says its YouTube ad problem is “very very very small” but it’s getting better at fixing it anyway
• Why Marketers Shouldn’t Believe Instagram, Snapchat Are Equal for Influencers
• Entrepreneurs, Beware This Terrible Way of Networking on Social Media
• 6 Must-Do’s for Effective Social Media Marketing
• Twitter Users Must Now Manually Accept PMs From Accounts They Don’t Follow
• Twitter eggs are fried, users respond
• Your move, Facebook: content search comes to Snapchat Stories

PAYMENTS

• Bitcoin spikes after Japan says it’s a legal payment method

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• California lawmakers seek protections in case of worksite raids
• Which state has the smallest gender pay gap? Largest? This animated map shows all.

MEDIA MATTERS

• Book review: Wine teller ventures into world of sommeliers

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Valpolicella at a Crossroads in the New Millennium
• Jefford on Valpolicella wine
• I Tried to Make Wine and Wound Up With a Bacterial Mess
• It’s All in Your Head: Wine Faults, Aromas, and the Brain
• How to Drink Wine the Right Way, According to Science

WINE PEOPLE

• Remembering Michael Birchenall’s commitment to local wine
• A Chat with Tyler Elwell
• Kareem Massoud, Paumanok Vineyards in Long Island
• How A Reporter Quit Her Job To Drink Wine Full Time
• Interview with winemaker Andrea Mullineux
• The winemakers global roaming
• Women Working in Wine Industry Pt 1 (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Terre-WA! The Perfect Place for Growing Wine
• The Long Road to Longship Cellars (WA)

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Funding for Washington wine research jumps
• Cabernet sauvignon has become WA’s signature wine
• Settled In The Seventeenth Century, Nova Scotia’s Wine Industry Has Only Just Begun
• NE wine makers prep for growing season

ACADEMIA

• Wine grape research videos available from MSU Extension

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Wine Grapes & Solar Power

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Innovation and Technique with Wine Yeast
• Researchers discover high-def electron pathways in soil

EUROPE & THE UK

• CIVB outlines strategy for Everyday Bordeaux
• Angry French winemakers destroy Spanish wine in south

DOWN UNDER

• Marlborough posts largest five-year GDP improvement in New Zealand
• OZ: Sweeping changes to alcohol tax and regulation urged on Turnbull government
• Australian wine industry aims for world’s top tables

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chinese winery sets sights on ‘feeding own market’ with Aussie grapes
• Marselan: The future ‘signature’ grape of China

LATIN AMERICA

• Cuban uses condoms, tropical fruit to make own brand of wine

SOUTH AFRICA

• On SA’s oldest red-wine vineyard
• MEC tries to calm gang violence in wine district

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Panera to debut new craft beverages