NEWS FETCH — June 7, 2018

TOP NEWS

• Google’s inability to deal with fake accounts & content makes reviews UNtrustworthy
• Napa’s Measure C fate may be unknown for days – or weeks
• Worker trust in employers increases. U.S. among highest
• Making more expensive wine doesn’t necessarily mean higher profits
• Beer More Popular Than Wine In 48 States, New Study Of Instagram Posts Shows
• 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)

• At $53 million, Drizly places #4 in winetech funding, but #1 in the total number of investors.
• Vivino surfs to online prominence atop a wave of Euro Cash
• Submissions now open for 2018 USA Wine Ratings: Where wines are judged by Quality, Value and Package *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• This Year’s IBWSS San Francisco Theme Is “Bulk Up Your Bottom Line” *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Dissecting a winery’s Google troll attack via multiple anonymous accounts and fake “reviews”
• Spring Mountain District Association announces new Board
• Guarachi Family Wines completes construction of winery project
• A Guide to Improving Your Winery Website to Sell More Wine *Sponsored Link*

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Pot dealers on why legalization won’t kill the black market
• Now Pot Growers Are Betting on Drinkable Weed
• High Times Seeks Revival in Crowded Landscape for Pot Publishers
• Cannabis Drinks Expo Launched By Beverage Trade Network will bring the global Cannabis drinks industry into one roof. Get more information here. *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Weather and Climate Summary and Forecast June 2018 Report
• The economics of water management in winegrape vineyards
• CA Primary vote result pleases water project advocates
• In Berry Country, California Farmers Get Innovative to Save Groundwater
• Another Danger from Overpumping Groundwater: Arsenic
• A beginner’s guide to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
• Delta Stewardship Council: Outlook for Water Year 2018

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Movement afoot to allow direct wine shipments to Delaware drinkers

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?




PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Brown-Forman upped Jack Daniel’s shipments as trade war loomed
• Australian Vintage appoints new communications officer

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Values rise as competition for Australian vineyards and wine assets intensifies
• Robot delivery firm Starship Technologies has hired an Airbnb veteran as its new CEO and raised $25 million

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• On war, wine, water and China
• EU to impose Bourbon tariffs in July

DISTRIBUTORS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Dump Equities – Buy With Fine Wine Instead
• Fine wine investment: A change in fortunes?

BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR 2017

• Study: Realistic En Primeur prices in a heterogeneous vintage
• Grand Puy Lacoste 2017 released – top value or costs too much?
• Carmes Haut Brion 2017 released
• Cos d’Estournel 2017 released
• Pavie Macquin 2017 released
• Larcis Ducasse 2017 released
• Clos Fourtet 2017 released

HEALTH

• Do Not Misinterpret Study That Says Non-Drinkers Miss More Work

MARKETING & SALES

• Much of What You Thought You Knew About Gen Z’s Shopping Habits Is Probably Wrong
• The Best Wine Sales Person in the World
• A Guide to Improving Your Winery Website to Sell More Wine *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• International Wine Law Conference in Napa in October
• IBWSS drives bulk wine forward with London and China shows
• Big success for Vinexpo Hong Kong

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Complaint against Captain Morgan tweet dismissed
• Instagram plans to launch Snapchat Discover-style video hub
• A Guide to Improving Your Winery Website to Sell More Wine *Sponsored Link*

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• Google is staring down the barrel of another massive fine and a crackdown that could rip the company apart

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Science of Winemaking Yeasts
• The Quest to Grow the First Great American Wine Grape
• Barbera, the origin of the grape name (a philologist’s perspective)
• Explore the mysterious, multifaceted wines of Jura

WINE PEOPLE

• Paul Dunleavy – the driving force behind Te Motu
• The Taste with Doug Shafer: Pete Seghesio Podcast
• Barossa Valley winemaker Ian Hongell on why some wines are worth the wait
• Greek Wine Producer Takes the World By Storm

WINE PLACES

• Inside The Donum Estate: A Vineyard Merging Art And Wine
• The Kentucky Wine Trail
• Okanagan Wine Country: The Most Stunning Place You’ve Never Heard Of

WINE EDUCATION

• A new chapter in wine education

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Why so little new research about juice handling?

EUROPE & THE UK

• Controversy Still Simmers at Domaine Huet
• A War Correspondent Is Taking Over One of Bordeaux’s Great Wine Empires
• Counterfeit spirits and wine costs European countries €2.7 billion each year

DOWN UNDER

• Artificial intelligence to measure Australia’s national vineyard

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China’s love affair with oak a mixed blessing for France
• China: TMall unveils the technologies of a futuristic wine merchant
• Faustino: ‘China will become our most important market in five years’

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa: Asara Wine Estate appoints Johan Joubert as Cellarmaster