NEWS FETCH — June 19, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Amazon + Whole Foods will disrupt entire grocery biz
• Constellation snaps up Schrader Cellars in Napa Valley
• “Gotta Read” content boosts your readership. Here’s how to create it.
• China Wine Market Follows its Own Path
• Duarte lashes out over plowing dispute
• Pricing gap between restaurants and grocers shrinks
• Private Label Versus Brands: How Retailers Can Make The Most of Both*Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Wonderful Nurseries Lives Up to Its “Growers First” Reputation *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa County could receive $250,000 from state for farmworker housing
• Settlement reached in Belden Barns winery project on Sonoma Mountain
• Steve Matthiasson Deconstructing Napa Mythologies
• Success Strategies Offers Winery Hospitality Sales Training
• Here’s how bulk wine & spirits buyers can boost profits by avoiding the usual buy/sell channels and using this new sourcing tool. *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Searing, prolonged heatwave developing across much of California & Desert Southwest
• California farms are thirsty and in danger
• Irrigation Management in the Western States, seen from overseas
• Retail point-of-sale materials don’t need to be expensive! Click now to learn more about high-quality, affordable displays and ads. *Sponsored Link

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• In wake of Amazon/Whole Foods deal, Instacart has a challenging opportunity

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation in Shock Swoop for Schrader
• Winners and losers in Amazon’s $13.7B purchase of Whole Foods
• Amazon Plans Cuts to Shed Whole Foods’ Pricey Image
• Whole Foods for thought: Austin foodies ponder future under Amazon
• Blue Apron plans to raise up to $587 million as it goes public

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Grocery stocks tank on news that Amazon is buying Whole Foods

DISTRIBUTORS

• Amazon and Whole Foods — Changing the Beer and Wine Distribution World

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Talking Trade – Sassicaia 2014, strategic repositioning

DATA & TRENDS

• Yellow Tail — wine imports into the USA do fit a “power law”

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Lidl cuts first prices prices in grocery store wine war
• The art of wine wrestling
• No Way, Frosé: Why You Should Say No To The World’s Most Viral Drink
• Why You Should Be Drinking Dry Wines from These Sweet Wine Regions
• Prosecco takes to the skies

MARKETING & SALES

• Podcast: An Industry View Through Rob McMillan’s Wine Glass
• How to Sell to Millennials

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Do wine bottles need a design update?
• What is the point of heavy bottles?

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How well are hashtags being used in wine social media?

MEDIA MATTERS

• 5 Strategies for Getting Press for Your Small Business
• “Cork Dork” by Bianca Bosker, Tells It Like It Is With Lots of Sass

MATTERS OF TASTE

• A Barrel is Born: Part I
• The winelover’s secret map
• Puglia’s Rosé Conundrum – Through a Glass Darker

WINE PLACES

• Bordeaux Estate Makes Fine Wines Naturally
• An unexpected find: an urban winery in Marseille

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Willamette Valley Wineries Association hires new executive director
• MD: Before the vines go in, it’s busy down on Old Westminster’s farm

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• 6 Ways That Climate Change Affects The Wine In Your Glass

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Burning Vineyard Waste for Biochar
• 2017 Summer Disease Management Review

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Simon Berry to retire as chairman of Berry Bros
• Government needs to avoid “a no deal Brexit” says WSTA

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Dispute between alcohol companies and safe drinking review panel bubbles over

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Japan plans to eliminate import tariffs on EU wines
• Greek wines are on the move in Asia

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Kopparberg: a brand apart
• Craft Rum, Gin, Vodka, Pisco and Rye: Dads Who Distill