NEWS FETCH — October 23, 2017

TOP NEWS

• Rabobank: Small 2017 harvest drives up bulk wine prices
• 28.5% of all the acreage in Sonoma Valley burned this month
• Bordeaux Winemakers Optimistic on ’17 Quality After Frost Damage
• Mallya steps down from United Breweries board
• ProWein 2018 ‘already sold out’
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WINE COUNTRY WILD FIRES — Scroll down to bottom for special extended coverage

• Video: Reporting your wine loss numbers from wildfire damage to the TTB
• Next challenge in Wine Country fires: colossal cleanup before winter rains
• Where Did the Napa Fire Begin? Investigators Scour the Ashes
• How the California Wildfire Was Falsely Pinned on an Immigrant
• DIY fire cleanup could cost you a lot

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Growers Harvest Most Remaining Napa Cabernet Grapes
• Bordeaux Sweats on Cabernet Quality
• NY: Region’s grape crop big in two ways
• The 2017 Harvest in Umbria and Tuscany – Fear and “Global Weirding” – Pt.III
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• A ‘perfect storm’ of fire conditions is headed for the Central Coast this week
• They planned to visit Napa — but fires have wine tourists heading to Paso instead
• A wet Napa County winter could bring mudslides in wake of fires
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DROUGHT/WATER

• Repair costs double for Oroville Dam

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Iowa law prohibiting out-of-state alcohol rarely enforced

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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• It may be time to toast Constellation Brands

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• B.C. wineries join New Brunswick beer drinker in high court scrap over trade

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Trade at highest weekly level since June
• Billionaire Koch brother’s crusade against counterfeit wine

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Palates under Pressure
• Wine clubs: what’s your tribe?
• Ranking America’s most popular cheap wines

MARKETING & SALES

• Your brand is talking about itself too much

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWein reveals new elements for 2018
• Steven Spurrier to Deliver Keynote at 2018 Symposium for Professional Wine Writers

PAYMENTS

• Facebook Messenger Now Supports Peer-to-Peer Payments via PayPal
• Google’s new payment service speeds up mobile checkouts on Android
• Bitcoin’s Surge to $5,600 Is a Reminder of Why It’s a Junk Currency

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Californian wines: The variety show
• One Grape, Many Styles: Nebbiolo Across Italy
• Vegan wine: Do the yeast count?
• It’s all about balance
• The Inside Scoop On This Year’s Most Exclusive Holiday Wine Gift
• ‘Magnificent’ buried Beaujolais tasted
• Riesling gets its mojo back

WHY IS THIS STILL A THING?

• A blue tide washes over the wine world

WINE PEOPLE

• Pattingham grape-picker Ann still reaping harvest at 97

WINE TOURISM

• New Approach to Special Interest Tourism in Croatia: SplitB2B a Total Success

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Reserve with Google booking service to open beyond the U.S. and include restaurants

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• As Virginia wine flourishes, producers look to parlay success into out-of-state accolades
• Pennsylvania Liquor Control Approves Financial, Legal Counsel to Pursue Monetization of PLCB Future Earnings
• PA: Temporary agreement reached between Lebanon County winery, township after cease-and-desist
• Nova Scotia vineyards flourish, for now, as temperatures grow warmer

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Winemakers (and Vineyards) Need to take Probiotics Daily

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Crafting Affordable Wine Starts With Mechanized Agriculture
• EPA Sets Regulatory Actions on Dicamba for 2018

EUROPE & THE UK

• Thieves steal grapes from Swiss vineyard
• English wine producers urge Chancellor to freeze wine duty
• Minimum alcohol price law unveiled in Wales

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Increasing number of people too drunk to walk, but is minimum floor price on alcohol the answer?

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Brewers should ‘roll with the punches’ and continue to invest in emerging markets: Rabobank

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RECOVERY/AFTER THE FIRES

• Wine Institute Update: Recovery from Fires in Northern California Wine Regions
• As flames fade, wine country grapples with emotional scars of devastating fires
• Undocumented immigrants face challenges after Wine Country fires
• What’s to blame for wine country fires? PG&E isn’t the only suspect
• Sonoma County faces long road to recovery following devastating Wine Country fires
• Napa wineries chart a path to recovery
• As fires die down, California restaurant recovery gears up
• Where the blazes began
• When the flames came to California’s wine country, where did all the animals go?

MAPS

• Napa County releases interactive map of destroyed and damaged buildings

FIRES AND WINE/TOURISM

• Northern California Wine Country is Open for Tourism
• After Fires, Napa and Sonoma Tourism Industry Is Getting Back on Its Feet
• Why Now Is The Best Time To Visit Napa And Sonoma
• Wildfires Spared the Vineyards, but the Wines Could Suffer

FIRE RECOVERY BUSINESS RESOURCES — Click this link for more

• Northwest Rallies Behind Fire-Ravaged Wineries

ADDITIONAL RELIEF EFFORTS — Click this link for more

• SF: Huge Concert Fundraiser For Fire Victims Rumored To Be Happening At AT&T Park
• Californian wildfires: how to help
• Where Northern California fire victims can find resources – and how you can support them
• Helping Northern California Wine Country After the Fires
• One Last Thought About the Wine Country Fires, and How You Can Help

STORIES/COMMENTARY

• I feel like I was just knocked out ~ Pocket Fire in Geyserville

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