NEWS FETCH — November 27, 2017

TOP NEWS

• Calif Wine Grape Value Is Half a Billion Dollars Higher Than Crush Estimates
• Competitors Circle Amazon’s Wine Business
• Wine Country Still Hurting After Fires
• New interstate shipping ban impacts Illinois wine retailers
• Fine Wine Might Be One of the Safest Investments for Your Money
• Bordeaux whines as rich Chinese give lucky names to old châteaux
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Kistler Founder Mark Bixler Dies
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Nightmare 2017 – an Italian perspective
• Price rises expected for Spain’s 2017 vintage
• Demand For Italian Wine Grows By 46% In Russia
• Eastern European wine boom at Majestic as consumers look for value
• Rain brings mixed fortunes for South Australian wine regions
• Why a winemaking review now is critical for learning and planning for next year *Sponsored link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Aid leaders attempt to clarify picture on donations going to North Bay fire victims
• NZ Winegrowers donate NZ$25,000 to California fire victims
• Napa’s Disaster Relief Fund has helped 7,000 fire victims
• Vincent Arroyo Winery wins Napa County approval for more visitors, production
• Free erosion control materials from NV Grapegrowers
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AMAZON

• Retailers look to woo shoppers from rivals as Amazon grows
• Is the Spark Missing Between Amazon and Influencers?
• Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’ net worth grew to over $100 billion after a Black Friday stock surge

DROUGHT/WATER

• Fire Retardant Use Explodes as Worries About Water, Wildlife Risk Grow

RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• MX: Tijuana turns wastewater into wine, as Latin America dips toe in reuse

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Thristie, Inc. Adds An Alcohol Brand E-commerce Platform To Its Consumer Platform

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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Majestic’s £70 million acquisition of Naked Wines seems to be paying off

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Spain: Peter Sisseck acquires famous sherry Solera

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Talking Trade – Liv-ex 50 keeps climbing
• Bordeaux 2010: back to black
• Update: Italy on the secondary market
• HDH finishes year with three-day sale
• IMW lots and Burgundy star at Bonhams

DATA & TRENDS

• Do you think the new Penfolds G3 wine is too expensive?
• Mezcal and English sparkling tipped as the top tipples for 2018
• Holiday wine trends 2017

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Rush of pot grows splits rural California before legal sales
• The newest Black Friday stocking stuffer? Marijuana

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• 3 Approaches for Organizing a Wine List
• Filling in the wine jigsaw

MARKETING & SALES

• Is Wine Different from Other Consumer Products?
• Selling Your Italian Wine to the US Market
• As shoppers mobilize on Thanksgiving, retailers branch out
• Trump Wine: Local Promotion Or Presidential Product Placement?
• Engaging Generation Z: Marketing to a New Brand of Consumer
• How a comedy website came to sell wine to survive

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Owens-Illinois shows its disregard for wineries. Raises bottle prices in middle of devastating wildfires
• Wines and their labels: crafting narratives that speak to us

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWine China 2017 declared a success
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SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Is Organic Social Media Marketing Still Relevant?

PAYMENTS

• Blockchain and wine
• Bitcoin nears $10,000 mark as hedge funds plough in

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Sexual harassment in the wine trade: when will the other bottle break?
• Calm down, dear
• Free 30 minute strategy session at 10 am every weekday with Paul Mabray

MEDIA MATTERS

• The stuff of the best 2017 wine reads: Everyman advice, a con man, a legendary region
• Wine and Spirits Books of 2017 That Belong in Any Great Wine (book) Library
• Robinson to join Fattorini and sit in judgement on The Wine Show

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Somms love Champagne, but not the way you do

WINE PEOPLE

• View from a Napa Valley winemaker: Trevor Durling, Beaulieu Vineyard

WINE PLACES

• Not just a pretty place, the Finger Lakes are a destination for history and wine
• Switzerland: Your Unexpected Next Wine Destination

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• How Will a Changing Climate Affect Santa Barbara’s Wine Country?
• How spat-out wine is being turned into spirits
• Fifty shades of green – Wine’s big new debate?

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• New discovery to accelerate development of salt-tolerant grapevines
• Could This Biological Control Help Save the Wine Industry?
• Cornell group explores future of indoor farming
• New farmers’ biggest challenge: Finding land to farm
• Winegrowing under rising CO2 (Giesco minutes)

EUROPE & THE UK

• New classification crucial for Cava since Catalonia declared independence
• Netherlands poised to gain first PDO wine region
• UK: The impact of the alcohol duty freeze on the drinks industry
• Taste for champagne falls flat as half of Britons put £10 cap on fizz
• UK: Sales of dry sherry soar as hipster generation drives revival
• Spaniards face ham shortage as Chinese market gets taste for jamón ibérico

DOWN UNDER

• Economic impacts of Xylella fastidiosa on the Australian wine grape and wine-making industries (PDF)

SOUTH AFRICA

• Impact of drought on the South African wine industry

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Beyond the qvevri in Georgia

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• How the Vanilla Shortage Is Affecting Spirits Production
• Singapore researchers have developed the world’s first booze made from tofu whey