NEWS FETCH — January 29, 2018

TOP NEWS

• Weed is Impacting Wine Sales: Just not how you might think
• How looming wine shortages could shape the market
• Russian River Sustains Calif Wine Country, but It’s Killing Salmon
• Walla Walla’s Corliss family buys San Juan Vineyards
• Naked Winery employees buy Oregon company
• This wine Direct-to-Consumer graphic masterfully organizes vendors for you
• Here’s how to avoid costly mistakes by managing your barrel inventory with bar codes – Click now to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Wine business to remain growth-forward with strong notes of competition
• Cannabis Drinks Expo To Launch, July 2019, San Francisco

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• No Château Climens 2017 due to frost damage
• Australian wine sales buoyant as interest in regionality grows
• Volunteers brave cold to pick grapes at Indiana vineyard
• Exhibitor Registration for 2018 International Bulk Wine and Spirits Show in San Francisco is now open! Register now and save $400*Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Vineyard owners given new resources for controlling erosion into the Napa River
• Wine Train ponders housing on rail property, moving support operations to Napa Valley College
• Russian River Brewing Company Close to Raising $900,000 for Wildfire Victims
• North Bay Fire Relief Fund a powerhouse that raised $30 million
• Sonoma County grape growers raise funds to support workers
• Northern California Wine-Country Wildfire Impact Study Shows Signs of Hope
• American Canyon comes to terms with Watson Ranch developer

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Napa County supervisors look to finish marijuana law in April
• Branding Your Marijuana Business

AMAZON

• 3 ways that Amazon Go sets the stage for the ‘store of the future’
• What’s up at Whole Foods?

DROUGHT/WATER

• Now $870 million, price of Oroville Dam crisis jumps by a third
• Record-challenging warmth, elevated fire danger return to Southern California

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Mississippi could benefit from wine deliveries
• Third-Party Provider Reports for Illinois Due

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?




PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo Keeps Walking as Activists Push Consumer Giants on Profit
• Why Patrón Sold To Bacardi For $5.1 Billion Dollars

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• With NAFTA talks faltering, CPTPP agreement viewed optimistically by Canadians
• UK: WSTA urges free trade with NZ and Australia after Brexit

DISTRIBUTORS

• Looking to grow your distribution in the US? Here is how USATT can help!*Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• How to Score at a Wine Auction? Tips from the Experts
• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – Jeb moves the market
• Is Whiskey the New Lafite?

HEALTH

• Labeling the point: Towards better alcohol health information in the UK (PDF)
• What do wine glasses and hamburgers have in common?
• Alarmed about your teen’s drinking? Maybe it’s yours you should worry about
• There’s even more evidence that the Mediterranean/MIND diet is the best for your body and brain

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• A Swansea restaurant has installed ‘push for prosecco’ buttons
• How to be a wine buyer
• Bored? Oh, Those French Grapes

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• NY: Grape Symposium Highlights All Facets of Sparking Wine Production
• Largest Winegrape Show in Western World Draws Nearly 14,000
• Underdog Varieties – Wines that deserve a second chance *Sponsored link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Best Practices for Advertising on Instagram
• Nielsen Social Content Ratings Will Now Include Instagram

PAYMENTS

• Your Business Doesn’t Have to Pay Credit Card Fees Any More and Probably Shouldn’t

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• Fabio (the robot) gets fired after only a week on the job at an up-scale food and wine chain

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Valuing The Work Of Women In Wine: Lessons From New Hampshire
• Cultivating traditions keeps family trees alive

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The controversy over natural wines: Moral purity or moral preening?
• Age can be mindblowing — here’s why
• Tracking terroir
• Old grapes, new barriers
• Terroir under cork: How wine and spirits take on the personality of their origins (podcast)

WINE PEOPLE

• Gina Gallo Gets Personal
• Can Zinfandel be saved? Conversation with Turley’s Tegan Passalacqua
• Italy’s Unsung Heroes Series – Giuliano Noé

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• How social media can impact restaurant foot traffic

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• WA: New housing option for farmworkers

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• The basic elements of successful vineyard management

EUROPE & THE UK

• France: Rain-Swollen Seine Burst Its Banks, Threatens Wine Cellars and Museum Basements
• “Boycott Zonin wines” movement emboldened as details of financial misdeeds emerge
• Burgundy winemakers elect duo of presidents
• Conviviality sales surge 9.2% as market share grows
• Thieves steal 1,000 Brunello wines from Col D’Orcia
• UK: OW Loeb merchant insists future is bright
• Georgian Wine Agency Presents Wine Development Strategy
• Négociants multiply in Burgundy
• UK: Age and beauty at Corney & Barrow

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Winter is the season of sake
• China’s top 10 wine importing countries in 2017

SOUTH AFRICA

• Alcohol on labels and other South African regulations

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Monks are making rosé in this peaceful part of the Middle East

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Russian River Brewing building new Windsor plant as it gears up for Pliny the Younger release
• The U.S. Beer Industry’s Workforce More Than Doubled In A Decade