NEWS FETCH — July 20, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Calif Wine crush has hit a production plateau
• Wildfire destroys dozens of structures across Mariposa County
• Bill seeks to extend H-2A program to all farms
• How to Make Crush and Acreage Reports Better
• Winemaking Partners Purchase Côte-Rôtie’s Domaine de Boisseyt-Chol and Its Côte Blonde Vines
• NAFTA Renegotiations Boost Pressure on Wine Relations
• How To Make Your Online Advertising Pay Off * Sponsored link*

CALIFORNIA BURNING

• Detwiler Fire Map from UC Merced
• How a Central Coast vineyard fought off the Alamo fire
• Mopping Up the Whittier Fire

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• TX: Vineyards rush to harvest grapes as early season arrives
• This week, Happy Veraison from Lodi!

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Former Napa Valley winery employee arrested for alleged embezzlement
• Erin Carlstrom Joins DP&F’s New Cannabis Practice
• ‘Let’s Talk Tourism’ may be coming soon to a Sonoma County town near you
• Report says well-heeled Napa Valley tourists love wine and scenery
• 125 Years of Napa Valley winemaking
• Wonderful Nurseries Lives Up to Its “Growers First” Reputation *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Clean Water Plan for Long-Suffering San Joaquin Valley Towns Derailed

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Free speech? Not with the three-tier system around

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Meal kits will help Amazon truly infiltrate traditional grocery market

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Burgeoning Wine Auction Market Sets Rapid Pace for 2017
• Bordeaux 2016 en primeur review – The inside story
• Fine wine investment: taking stock
• Trading wine online hits Asia
• Rarest Grange sells for ‘staggering’ $51,750 at auction

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How does your personal wine list compare with local trends?

MARKETING & SALES

• 3 Ways to Use the Bulk Wine Market as Part of Your Marketing Strategy
• 10 Tips for Wineries To Implement a Successful Digital Marketing Strategy
• 6 Ways to Make Online Reviews Work for Your Business
• My Recent Depressing Realization about All This Crappy ‘Content Marketing’

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• A Cork Crisis? Meeting The CEO Of The World’s Biggest Cork Producer
• Multi-Color – Fully Valued Despite Constantia Deal

CUSTOMER RELATIONS

• Walmart’s new robot can recognise the misery on your face

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Registration Opens For SommCon

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Amazon’s push into social may set it on a collision course with Facebook
• Facebook is throwing publishers a bone in the form of more performance data on Instant Articles
• Publishers are finding Flipboard drives nice traffic
• How Facebook’s Efforts to Combat Fake News Will Affect Link Previews From Publishers

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• Your Data is Your Data

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Releases New Form I-9
• Trump admin gives more visas to low-wage foreign workers

MATTERS OF TASTE

• German Riesling: On the Precipice of Change
• Redefining Ripeness
• Marlborough Sauvignon moving past ‘one dimensional’ style
• Unexpected Pleasures: Ruchè from Piedmont, Italy

WINE PEOPLE

• Luke Wohlers of Importer Walden Selections
• A father’s dying wish brings these sisters together

WINE PLACES

• Kosta Browne 20 Years Later
• Wine, Whiskey and History: Loudoun, VA’s Past Meets its Spirited Present

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• MIT is building a system that can identify a recipe using pictures of food

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Canadian wineries uncork the market for bubbly

ACADEMIA

• NZ: High-profile winemakers join EIT’s teaching team
• University of Kentucky Planning Limited Sales of Wines it Produces

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Purdue researchers combining data and technology to make agriculture more sustainable
• Trinchero Family Estates Transitions to Clean Energy Across all Napa Facilities and Vineyards

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Deep Questions for my Pal, Guy Miller, (Mostly) on the Subject of Vinous Congruity
• Crop coefficient (4) : how does heat wave affect water use?

DOWN UNDER

• Winemakers’ Federation of Australia responds to the Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code change