NEWS FETCH — May 30, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Restaurant Wine Sales Collapsing for Small Wineries
• Richard Ward dies, championed Napa Valley Pinot Noir
• Jeffry Hill enters plea deal in federal wire and mail fraud case
• Brown-Forman Is Just Fine On Its Own
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ICYMI

• Congressional Committee takes up Duarte plowing case: Calls on US Attorney General to explain “DOJ Overreach”

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Bordeaux 2017 – The frost map
• French winegrowers hope June bloom saves harvest after up to 90pc of vines were destroyed
• Late frost in Bordeaux could mean 20% price hike on wine
• Wonderful Nurseries Moves to 100% Root Socks for All Potted Vines! *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Predicted change in acreage dedicated to Californian wines in different price brackets
• Healdsburg in search of ‘sustainable tourism’
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DROUGHT/WATER

• Quiet early summer conditions; thoughts on the season ahead
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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Wal-Mart sees massive growth in online sales
• Asda overhauls beers, wines and spirits aisles
• Costco Exceeds Expectations In Sales and Earnings — Will Open 15 Units In France

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Not Going to Auction Napa Valley? Bid from Anywhere on Nearly 300 Lots of Wine and Experiences
• From Bordeaux to Brexit: Cult Wines’ Tom Gearing on what lies ahead for the wine investment market
• Talking Trade – Bordeaux and bank holidays
• Illiquid liquid: investing in fine wine

BORDEAUX 2016

• BORDEAUX 2016: A new dawn for En Primeur? (PDF)
• Bordeaux 2016 Price Increases Accelerate as Wines Go on Sale
• Gruaud Larose 2016 released
• Haut Brion and Clarence Haut Brion 2016 released
• Mission Haut Brion 2016 released
• Larcis Ducasse 2016 released

DATA & TRENDS

• Canned Wine Is Up, Neighborhood Bars Down

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Birthplace of Fetzer’s Mendocino County wine empire makes way for cannabis economy
• Cannabis growers overcome the powerful scent
• Can I get fired for using legal recreational marijuana? An FAQ for California workers
• Guess Who Is Pioneering Streetwear Canna-Culture? Generation Z

REAL ESTATE

• Chinese wine group buys three vineyards in Chile

HEALTH

• Why white wine could be doing you more harm than you think
• Eating chocolate may help prevent a fairly common heart problem
• Energy drinks and alcohol: A risky mix psychologically

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Liquor lobbying group declares war on Utah with ad campaign in neighboring states over strict drunk driving law

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How many wine-quality scales are there?
• The preferences and prejudices of Australian wine critics
• Is wine the secret to get millennials and baby boomers to stop whining about each other?

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Australian inventors of Barokes wine-in-a-can claim rip-off by Japanese giant Daiwa

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• London Wine Fair to retain time and location in 2018

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How to measure the ROI of social media campaigns
• 6 Critical Social Strategy Mistakes to Avoid

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Number of Temporary Foreign Farm Workers (H-2A Visas) on the Rise
• Farmers in California need immigrant workers. Will Trump help or hurt?

MEDIA MATTERS

• Pitching Your Business to a Journalist? Here’s What Works.
• Essential Winetasting: Learning to taste better

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Are we potentially much better at smelling than we realise? The curious case of andrestenone
• Jenny Lefcourt and the Natural Wine Movement
• Rijoa grapples with how to define its best wines
• The Story Behind An Oregon Pinot Noir Made By An Iranian Immigrant
• How To Recognize Vino Nobile Di Montepulciano DOCG
• Italian Wines – Multifaceted, Bright, Complex and Confounding
• What do we know about how Virginia wines age?
• 5 Things You Should Know About Port Wine But Probably Don‘t, Including Why You Don’t Want To Know The Bishop Of Norwich
• The Time for Chilean Wine is Now
• 100% Whole Cluster (podcast)

WINE PEOPLE

• 40 under 40: Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen
• Mapmaker Alessandro Masnaghetti (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Meet Trento, Italy’s Next Big Sparkling Wine Region

WINE EDUCATION

• Willamette Valley Vineyards offers lessons on wine-making, region’s wine history

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Canadian winery owners beg Chinese court for mercy in smuggling case

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Trump tells confidants U.S. will quit Paris climate deal

EUROPE & THE UK

• Record number of English and Welsh wine companies launched in 2016
• Wine trade can be Britain’s post-Brexit poster boy
• Ex-City workers in search of ‘the good life’ are driving the English wine boom
• The Crazy Swedish Wine Project, The Greek, The German, And The Italian
• Joseph Drouhin appoints new president for Dreyfus, Ashby & Co
• Luck of the Irish
• Mallorca’s Wine Boom

DOWN UNDER

• Chinese entrepreneur goes whole hog on Aussie wine, ambassador and all
• NZ: Wine industry joins GIA biosecurity partnership
• OZ: ‘Chick on a Stick’ to remain as new wineries open at Laurance site
• OZ: Canberra winery Lerida Estate sold to new owner
• What’s next for New Zealand Pinot Noir?

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Behind China’s $1 trillion plan to shake up the economic order
• Three Things To Learn From Mondavi About Selling Wine In China

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Meet the new Russian wine consumer

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Five myths about beer
• Kombucha making inroads in Sonoma Wine Country
• South Australian power station putting the bubbles in beer by capturing carbon dioxide