NEWS FETCH — June 5, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Treasury, Ste. Michelle quietly settle “Dueling Stags” legal spat
• Napa Valley Wine Auction Raises $15.7 Million
• Berkshire Hathaway vs the Three-Tier System
• Desired for their labor, rejected as neighbors. Farmworkers in California face hostile communities
• Trump budget ‘devastating’ to winegrape farming
• Why IBWSS is a Must Attend Event for National Chain Buyers*Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• [Republic of] Georgia earns $55m by exporting over 24m bottles of wine
• Wonderful Nurseries Moves to 100% Root Socks for All Potted Vines! *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Rich Kunde gives $1 million to Sonoma County Fair Foundation for support of ag education
• Napa Valley Wine Train owners plan $100 million resort development
• Napa Attorney Richard Mendelson’s “Appellation Napa Valley” Wins International Prizes
• The story behind Napa’s new blockbuster winery: Promontory
• Petaluma Gap group gets new executive director
• 90-room Cambria planned for Napa
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DROUGHT/WATER

• Your Caffeine Habit May Be Harming Waterways, Wildlife
• Water agencies push bigger role in tunnel plan
• The Oroville Dam crisis was a good thing for these people
• Blacklock Marsh: Tidal Habitat No Panacea for Thoughtful Restoration
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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Family Boozers: Constellation Brands Wants Brown-Forman
• Blue Apron: 5 things to know as the $2 billion startup goes public

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex 1000 increases 1.2% in May

BORDEAUX 2016

• Talking Trade- rapid releases, controversial Cos
• Haut-Brion, Mouton Hold Price Increases for ’16 Wines Below 10%

HEALTH

• Too much of a good thing: Developing safe level guidelines for bioactives
• The Face Of Binge Drinking In The U.S. Is A 60+ White Woman
• Study counters claims that alcohol consumption may provide health benefit
• Identical twin doctors conduct experiment to find out if binge drink is bad for you

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How many 100-point wine-quality scales are there?
• How to buy wine cleverly
• Has Rosé Reached Its Tipping Point?

MARKETING & SALES

• Top Tips to Navigating the Bulk Wine Market
• Here’s how to kill your growth, Part 2: spin off too many new brands and line extensions

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Sainsbury’s Villetta strikingly similar to Villa Maria
• ‘Corkscrew’ wine glasses remove need to decant

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Jefferson’s Hometown to Host ASEV-ES
• Support for Oregon Pinot Noir shows as IPNC nears another sellout

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Are chatbots just another fad?
• ‘It’s going to be a slow burn’: Publishers are starting to see money from Facebook’s mid-roll ads
• Facebook is broken
• Did Instagram copy Snapchat? Not exactly, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom says.

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Covered California Tells Insurers To Plan For The Worst

MEDIA MATTERS

• Three new books highlights Americans’ rosy love affair with rosé

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Binary thinking and bubble creation
• How to Spot a Healthy Vineyard
• Grapes of the Rhone Valley: Terret Noir

WINE PEOPLE

• Liv-ex interview with Bernard Magrez
• The Women of Champagne
• Winemaker Beppe Colla of Prunotto winery (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Upgrading Alentejo
• A hidden destination as gateway to wine country and the Monterey Peninsula

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Wine industry transforms Walla Walla into tourism mecca
• Iowa vineyard revives history

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• How this ninth-generation Californian got his start in organic farming
• Global Climate Change: Second Warmest April on Record in 137 Years – NASA

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Early season grapevine canopy management, Part II: Early leaf removal (ELR)
• Cutting Down on Biggest Grape Growing Expense
• Powdery Mildew Management Tips for Vineyards
• Biologists find missing link for ‘safe’ signal in plants

EUROPE & THE UK

• Poulton Hill Estate trademark registers word ‘Bulari’ to describe English sparkling wine
• Fancy a glass of … Britagne? England’s vineyards seek a snappy brand name
• What’s truly Italian? Food fight foils ‘Made in Italy’ plan
• UK: Spirit revenues top beer for the first time

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: MIA irrigators struggling with electricity price hikes

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• The cork landscape in China

SOUTH AFRICA

• New Cape Origin designation to boost tourism link

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Wine Continues to Flourish in Israel
• Bulgaria making a comeback in wine making

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Craft brewer’s latest problem: Drinkers want weak beers