NEWS FETCH — September 19, 2017

TOP NEWS

• Wine maven Kurniawan, convicted of fraud, loses bid for freedom
• How a Boutique Wine Producer is Meeting Labor Challenges Head On
• Emotion plays a vital role in perception of wine
• San Joaquin Valley farmers think Sacramento & other agencies who use water should help pay for Delta tunnels
• New London wine competition will rate wines for commercial success and consumer appeal in addition to quality. *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Hélène Garcin-Lévêque assesses 2017 Bordeaux frost damage

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa County Farm Bureau hires a policy director
• Napa council to discuss increase to city water rates
• Sonoma State University launches hybird wine MBA program
• Garagiste Wine Festival returns to Paso Robles Nov. 10-12
• Wonderful Nurseries Lives Up to Its “Growers First” Reputation *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Delta tunnels: It’s time to fish or cut bait
• Millions of Californians on hook for Delta tunnels

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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Brown-Forman: America’s Whiskey King Is A Fast-Growing Dividend Aristocrat
• Taco Bell Is Ditching Drive-Thrus and Adding Booze

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Millennials edge out Boomers for POOREST Generation in America

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Rare Moments of Bipartisanship with the Congressional Wine Caucus

MARKETING & SALES

• The oat milk invasion: how off-licences became the frontline of gentrification

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How Facebook Is Disrupting Influencer Marketing

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• This ex-Googler thinks she’s found the trick to ending Millennial job hopping
• Lessons learned from working a harvest

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Opening Warm Champagne Leads to a Pop of Blue
• Back to the Future with Chilean Semillon

WINE PEOPLE

• Q & A with Craig Hamm, Assistant Winemaker
• Uncorked: Sarah Heller MW
• Uncorked: John Ware, Quilceda Creek

WINE TOURISM

• Wine Tourism in Mendoza: Rethinking Best-Practices with the UNWTO

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• MealPal gobbles $20M for its restaurant meal subscription service
• New Yorkers refuse to eat dishes that are hard-to-pronounce

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• New York Wine Research Order Fails
• Harvey impacted restaurateurs, wine distributors and importers
• Philly’s fine wine restaurants alarmed by new PLCB rules
• A watershed for the Okanagan wine industry

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Lost wine grape ‘Tardif’ may protect against climate change

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Bioclimatic indices of the ripening period (1): The Huglin index

EUROPE & THE UK

• Aldi and Lidl increase share of British shoppers as inflation hits spending
• UK: Research reveals students prefer spirits to wine

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Who’s getting a slice of the pie – $1.2 million for SA cellar doors

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• We spill more coffee than wine when we walk: the hard science

OLIVE OIL

• California Olive Ranch: Defying Tradition

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Using Digital Data to Study Whiskey Flavor Development at Buffalo Trace