NEWS FETCH — July 6, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Forget Alexa, Amazon’s next big product is … wine
• Monarch Beverage loses appeal to buck Indiana state liquor laws
• Living in California’s San Joaquin Valley May Harm Your Health
• Americans’ Confidence in Economy Remains at Low for the Year
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Bronco’s Bleu Wine blues appear headed toward a sparkling conclusion

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Crop values in Monterey County mixed in 2016, grape values up
• Pennsylvania wine production threatened as invasive spotted lanternfly creeps across the state
• Wonderful Nurseries Lives Up to Its “Growers First” Reputation *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• CA Wineries: Don’t let your ABC license get suspended by missing this report!
• Santa Barbara Leader Stresses Government Relations
• The impact of pioneers on bourgeoning wine regions like Lodi
• 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

• ‘Worst is over’ for CA snowmelt
• The California Drought Isn’t Over, It Just Went Underground
• Vinegar—A New Way for Crops to Fight Drought?

RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• Toilet to tap? Some in drought-prone California say it’s time

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Michigan Chooses Special Interests over Budget Priorities with Passage of Wine Shipping Bill
• Colorado Continues to Update Its Reporting Requirements for DtC Sales
• Ohio is now the fifth U.S. state to permit delivery robots on sidewalks

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Blue Apron: Down But Far From Out

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• China-U.S. trade talks near 100 days
• EU, Japan have ‘agreement in principle’ on free trade deal
• Frictionless trade impossible if UK leaves EU single market

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex 2017 Classification – Left Bank Bordeaux (part one)
• See who’s promoted in new Liv-ex ‘1855 classification’

DATA & TRENDS

• ‘The Sideways Effect’: How A Wine-Obsessed Film Reshaped The Industry

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Tourists, locals buy Nevada’s legal recreational marijuana

HEALTH

• Wine’s link to breast cancer: Scary or just a scare?

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• What Goes with What?

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Facebook Is Testing the Addition of Pages’ Descriptions to Their Cover Images
• Will Snapchat Successfully Follow in Foursquare’s Footsteps?
• Snapchat’s Paperclip link tool could open up revenue streams for publishers and creators

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• If your mobile site takes more than 3 seconds to download, you will lose 53% of your visitors

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Employers Now Required To Provide Notice About Rights For Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking
• Central Americans, ‘Scared of What’s Happening in the U.S., Stay Put
• Mark Zuckerberg thinks universal basic income is a ‘bipartisan idea’ worth exploring in the US

MATTERS OF TASTE

• An Introduction to Monterey
• Minerality = [SS + A + CC] – [E + T] – [O²]
• Measuring deliciousness
• To Add Value To Italian Wine, Learn Your Grapes

WINE PEOPLE

• Rest in peace, Patricio de la Fuente Saez (Hong Kong’s Links Concept co-owner)
• Filippo Bartolotta: The Obama sommelier
• Ed Carr : House of Arras

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• This Grocery Store Will Actually Drive to You

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Canadian Wine Is Primed To Earn More Attention

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Smith Haut Lafitte is producing baking soda
• What’s up with organic wines?
• BV Coastal Donates $1 Per Bottle To Restore Oceans

EUROPE & THE UK

• Pesticides Threat to Champagne Water Quality
• The Wine Guild appoints Viscount Thurso as new Chancellor
• Greek court upholds £23m fine for Heineken over market abuse

DOWN UNDER

• Australian grower awarded more than $7million for damages from overspray
• OZ: Rocks now roll vineyard prices
• New Zealand School of Winegrowing kicks off next year after funding from wine industry
• OZ: Magpies recruited to safeguard vineyards from grape-eating birds

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina: Malbec pioneer goes back to the future with Cahors vineyard deal