NEWS FETCH — March 27, 2018

• 2018 SVB State of the Wine Industry Follow-Up Videocast: Are you Irrelevant to the New Consumer?
• TTB Targets Consignment Wine Sales
• Alcohol and cannabis ventures: Top 5 legal considerations
• Constellation Wine: What’s soaring? (And what sucks?)
• A Consumer’s Guide to 2018 State Politics
• Chinese police seize 50,000 bottles of fake Penfolds
• 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)

• Breweries, wineries and distilleries post 2nd-largest U.S. job gains in 2017

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma’s V2 Wine Group makes sales pact with Terroir Selections
• Napa Valley Wine Train selling off ‘excess’ land
• Ron Rubin Winery Trained for “Saving Lives” Program expands to include all of the North Coast
• Napa’s BottleRock promoter to present a 2-day music festival in Sonoma County
• Seeing the Napa Valley of now
• Grow Your Distribution with USATT This May. Only Few Spots Left. Become an Exhibitor By Feb 28 and Save $200 + Get 2 Day ABID Conference Ticket Included *Sponsored Link*

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Mitch McConnell renews push to legalize industrial hemp
• Cannabis Drinks Expo Launched By Beverage Trade Network will bring the global Cannabis drinks industry into one roof. Get more information here. *Sponsored Link*

AMAZON

• A work of non-friction: is Amazon rewriting the retail rule book?
• Amazon agrees distribution deal with French retailer Casino Group

DROUGHT/WATER

• California’s Water Data Problems are Symptoms of Inchoate Science and Technical Activities
• Defying drought in South Africa

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• The Purpose of Social Media for Wineries *Sponsored link*

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Is The Market Pricing Constellation Brands Fairly?

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Argentina’s O Fournier Estate sold to Finca Agostino
• Wisconsin’s Elmaro Vineyard sells mobile bottling business to Chankaska Creek Winery in Minnesota

DISTRIBUTORS

• Shocking Report: Booze Wholesaler Representative Misrepresents Facts
• 6 Ways to Set Your Rosé Selection Apart
• Looking to grow your distribution in the US? Here is how USATT can help!*Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Auction Napa Valley 2018 Tickets Now on Sale
• DRC breaks European record for wine at auction

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Louisiana senator proposes bill to allow 19 and 20-year-olds to legally drink

MARKETING & SALES

• Critics are slamming this ‘racist’ Heineken beer ad that declares ‘lighter is better’
• The Purpose of Social Media for Wineries *Sponsored link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• VinVentions acquires Italian screwcap company Alplast
• Randall Grahm on his iconic wine labels

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Vinitaly to focus on education, community, and diversity
• Underdog Varieties – Wines that deserve a second chance *Sponsored link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• After Facebook’s Algorithm Change Devastated Organic Reach, How Are Publishers Coping?
• How to download your Facebook data (and why you should)

PAYMENTS

• Twitter to start banning cryptocurrency ads, joining Google and Facebook

MEDIA MATTERS

• “André — The Voice of Wine” is a rare wine documentary of interest to novices and experts alike
• Review of “Our Blood is Wine”: A Film about Georgia Qvevri Wine

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Getting to the Root of Terroir

WINE PEOPLE

• Going 10 Rounds With Bobby Stuckey
• Foreign vignerons and vintners travel far and wide to uncork Houston market
• Explosive Sicilians from Benanti
• Wendy Stuckey living it large

WINE PLACES

• Weird and wonderful vineyard locations

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• HelloFresh is now bigger than Blue Apron in the U.S.
• Restaurant Owners and Managers Cannot Keep Servers’ Tips, Per New Budget Bill

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• The red state of Washington wine

ACADEMIA

• Researchers identify the cells that trigger flowering

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Spain: La Rioja Alta takes new step in green commitment
• The Paris Climate Accords Are Looking More and More Like Fantasy

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Nichino Announces New Fungicide for Powdery Mildew Control
• Building an IPM Program to Fight Fruit Flies
• Nutrients and their impact on healthy plant growth – Mg is for Magnesium

EUROPE & THE UK

• English wine producers looking east for growth opportunities

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: The wine industry’s year of the snake
• OZ: Less is more – what’s driving consumer choices in 2018
• OZ: Four Pillars asks Government to change ‘wine’ tourism message

LATIN AMERICA

• How Chilean wine Don Melchor rose against the odds to become a world-class wine

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• UK: How much will cider grow?