NEWS FETCH — May 29, 2018

TOP NEWS

• BC Wine Institute responds to claim that Canadian trade measures that discriminate against US wine
• United States Takes Action Against Canadian Trade Measures That Discriminate Against U.S. Wine
• Wine may battle cannabis for key consumers with legalization
• St. Helena winery sues Google over failure to remove “troll” reviews
• A Fond Farewell to a Grape Grower Advocate Nat DiBuduo
• Beware “Son of GDPR!” EU privacy czars are crafting something even stricter!
• Not Napa? Not Interested
• Here’s how to avoid costly mistakes by managing your barrel inventory with bar codes – Click now to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

GDPR

• GDPR mayhem: Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe
• App publishers: Here’s a way to minimize ad revenue loss from GDPR
• Facebook’s Scandal And GDPR Are Creating New Opportunities For Retail
• Europe, not the U.S., is now the most powerful regulator of Silicon Valley
• GDPR: Google and Facebook face up to $9.3B in fines on first day of new privacy law
• ‘Europe will become a digital backwater’: there’s a new war over online privacy and metadata in Europe right now

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Wine DtC Sales Sources: Internet & Clubs hold steady, events up slightly, but tasting room down 3%, phone off 1%
• EU’s strict GDPR regs are a €20-million risk to your business. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you)
• Submissions now open for 2018 USA Wine Ratings: Where wines are judged by Quality, Value and Package *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Bordeaux hailstorms disastrous for few but minor impact compared to recent frost
• This Year’s IBWSS San Francisco Theme Is “Bulk Up Your Bottom Line” *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Wine Business Institute gets big tech upgrade in new Sonoma State University center
• Family-owned company, FermRight Breathing Bungs, returns to Lodi, plans to expand
• Lodi Winegrape Commission expands its presence
• The growing wine industry is threatening California’s Napa Valley
• Napa County’s Measure C and D campaign in six figures
• Ask the Vintners: Giving Back to the Community
• Sonoma: Goldridge RCD – A Opportunity Waiting to Happen for You, Wine Grape Growers
• Investors Eye PG&E After Power Lines Faulted for Smaller Fires
• A Guide to Improving Your Winery Website to Sell More Wine *Sponsored Link*

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Over 80% Of U.S. And Canadian Adults Support Some Form Of Legal Cannabis, New Survey Finds
• California measure to slash marijuana taxes suffers setback
• 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

• Whole Foods backs off mandatory GMO labeling

DROUGHT/WATER

• Wineries mull challenge to Washington Ecology rules
• South-of-Delta water allocations increased to 45 percent
• After Years of Skepticism, San Diego Supports Massive Water Project
• Lawsuit filed against Delta Stewardship Council over Delta Plan conveyance amendment
• Guest Species – What about the nonnative species we like?
• South Africa: Cape Town’s dams slowly fill to 24% after May’s rainfall
• Seattle on track for hottest May on record, should tie for driest

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Lessons From the New Hampshire Wine Shipping Debacle
• DtC Sellers Face Unique Challenges in Louisiana

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?




PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Champagne Palmer & Co Entrusts TRU Estates and Vineyards, Fine Wine Division of Constellation Brands, With Strategic Partnership in the United States
• Treasury Wine Estates Share Price Rises Due to High Earnings

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Barbaresco’s Paitin and Sottimano Buy Vineyards in Basarin
• Online wine marketplace Winery Philippines raises fresh funds

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Wine Institute Commends U.S. Government’s Efforts to Improve Market Access in Canada
• Chinese customs checks of Aussie wine a ‘standard procedure’
• EU-US trade war could ‘devastate’ Irish whiskey industry

DISTRIBUTORS

• Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Ramps Up Wine Education Program
• Discover new and exciting products at the 2018 USA Trade Tasting. Get your visitor pass today and avoid $40 gate fee. *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• France wine auction: 1774 Vin Jaune fetches record price
• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – New releases, improved Market Prices
• Ornellaia 2015 vintage auction raises £123,000
• Auction Napa Valley opens e-bidding phase
• Jura Wine Hits Record Price

DATA & TRENDS

• Growing degree-days maps of Australia and the western USA

HEALTH

• How Wine and Spirits Professionals Can Better Protect Their Teeth
• Is sobriety a feminist issue?
• Does Red Wine reduce Risk of Prostate Cancer?
• 11 ‘bad habits’ that are actually healthy, according to science
• Binge drinking, risks common far beyond frat houses, young

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Wine buying in a vacuum: Winebuyers.com
• What have wine critics ever done for us?
• The scoring scene
• Why you should be drinking weird wines
• Ugh, It’s National Wine Day
• How The Austin Wine Merchant Became an Iconic Retailer
• A New Retail-Bar Concept Transforms the Mall Drinking Experience

MARKETING & SALES

• The future of fine wine is bright
• A Guide to Improving Your Winery Website to Sell More Wine *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Premium wine business course to be launched at Vinexpo

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How Influencer Marketing Is Fueled by an Age-Old Social Theory
• Generation Z is already making Facebook uncool, and 6 more industries could be next
• A Guide to Improving Your Winery Website to Sell More Wine *Sponsored Link*

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• Artificial neural networks at the service of wine authenticity
• Zappar & Mindshare look at the future of AR and its implications for brands

MEDIA MATTERS

• The dangers of negativity

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Mt. Etna viticultural environment
• The sex life of wine grapes
• Latest Research on Wine Smoke Taint
• True grit – the volcanic wine category
• The Age of Ignorance (with natural wine)
• On the power of a shared glass
• Abruzzo Is Making White Wine From Grapes You Don’t Yet Know

WINE PEOPLE

• Faouzi Issa: what it’s like on the road selling your wine around the world
• Laurent Bernard de la Gatinais of Tenuta Rapitalà on the winemaking renaissance in Sicily

WINE PLACES

• 72 hours in Cascade Valley Wine Country, Washington
• Canada’s Newest Wine Region

WINE TOURISM

• PA: Wineries celebrate 10 years of coveted AVA title with June trail

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MD: Ex-liquor board director sentenced in bribery scandal

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Winemakers head for higher ground as temperature increases force vignerons to rethink future
• The Soul of Soil at Troon Vineyards

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Managing vine water deficit with canopy height
• Using Steam on Your Barrels is the Best Way to Protect Against Wine Spoilage Yeasts

EUROPE & THE UK

• Serge Dassault, French billionaire who ran aviation empire and owned wine estates in Bordeaux, dies at 93
• Albert Bichot III, the export evangelist in Burgundy, has passed away
• UK could be reaching ‘peak Prosecco’ as sales rise by lowest levels in six years
• Brexit indigestion: row brewing over call for UK laws to protect likes of cognac and feta
• UK: WSTA partners with Crimestoppers in fake booze crackdown
• The third Burgundy
• The Long Green Mile – An Enduring Life in Italy

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Garry Crittenden bows out his way
• OZ: House of Fine Wine exceeds Villa Maria expectations

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Alibaba shows off automated wine store in Hong Kong
• China on Course to Become World’s Second Largest Wine Market (podcast)

LATIN AMERICA

• Concha y Toro hits 100% recycling target
• Meet some coastal Chilean winemakers who are redefining wine

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa’s wine farmers feeling the pressure, says Vinpro

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Kayra: making quality wine with Turkish grapes against the odds

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Incredible slow-motion photography reveals the hallucinatory beauty of sound in water — and whiskey

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Why Brewers Are Embracing Magnum Bottles
• Flowers and ‘sours’ among the hipster ideas brewing in the beer business