NEWS FETCH — June 12, 2018

TOP NEWS

• Napa’s Monday election update shows Measure C behind for the first time
• Brown-Forman tells French wine maker it cannot use its own chateau’s name on drink
• Mental health & alcohol: time to address ‘elephant in the room’?
• 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)

• Global alcohol consumption decline may have stabilized, but data show no proof of a reversal of decline
• At $53 million, Drizly places #4 in winetech funding, but #1 in the total number of investors.
• Submissions now open for 2018 USA Wine Ratings: Where wines are judged by Quality, Value and Package *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Argentina 2018 vintage: Good news for producers with a return to ‘normality’
• This Year’s IBWSS San Francisco Theme Is “Bulk Up Your Bottom Line” *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Paso Robles keeps adding giant new hotels to serve wine tourists
• Celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian has grand plans for historic Sonoma property
• 11 Essentials to Keeping Customers Engaged on Your Winery Website *Sponsored Link*

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Cannabis Drinks Expo Launched By Beverage Trade Network will bring the global Cannabis drinks industry into one roof. Get more information here. *Sponsored Link*

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Delaware: Retailers fear Amazon effect with direct wine shipments

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Vina Concha y Toro: 135 Years Of Success, 135 To Come

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Jo Pithon sells his domaine – Clos des Treilles – to Ivan Massonnat
• This U.S. Map Compares the Size of State Economies with Entire Countries

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Chinese Investors Grow Wary of Australia as Tensions Rise

DISTRIBUTORS

• Canadian wine tipped for growth as another UK distributor signs deal
• Champagne Palmer TRU to US
• 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

• Culinary Evening with California Winemasters Raises $1.7 million for Cystic Fibrosis
• Wine Fraud’s Final Journey

BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR 2017

• Pontet Canet 2017 released
• Haut Bailly 2017 released
• Leoville Las Cases 2017 released
• Petit Mouton 2017 released
• Leoville Poyferre 2017 released
• Mouton Rothschild 2017 released
• Bordeaux 2017: Anyone for seconds?
• Bordeaux 2017: Lambs and lions
• New Bordeaux 2017 releases: Mouton, Pontet-Canet and Montrose release

HEALTH

• Please Don’t Drink When You’re Sad

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• EPIC Adds Michael McNulty as Wine & Beverage Practice Leader in San Francisco

MARKETING & SALES

• A Guide to Improving Your Winery Website to Sell More Wine *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Are social media image boosters, or just time-consuming fads?
• Snap expands commerce for brands within Snapchat Stories
• Facebook is cracking down on businesses that lie to customers in their ads
• A Guide to Improving Your Winery Website to Sell More Wine *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• Sparkling English Wine Writing
• The podcast business is still teeny tiny. Which is great news for podcasts.

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Kate Hawkings on why aperitifs are the gifts that keep on giving
• Etna’s Eruption

WINE PEOPLE

• Uncorked: Leo Au

WINE PLACES

• 7 Wine Regions You Never Thought To Visit
• Top 10 things to see and do at La Cité du Vin

WINE EDUCATION

• 2018 MW examination wines revealed

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Texas vintner Kenneth Lawrence Maxwell has died
• Ag research grant bill signed by Michigan governor
• Montana: Vineyard washout won’t deter Huson man from putting Missoula on wine-making map
• Florida: Wine storage is booming, with a new project coming to East Naples

ACADEMIA

• New MBA course at Weincampus Neustadt open for applicants

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Exploring the Potential for Hybrid Grapes in Cold Climates
• Listening To Insect Booty Calls To Preserve Vineyards
• Effect of sap flow profile on berry sugar accumulation

EUROPE & THE UK

• Brunello: The many crus of Montalcino
• Running a family-owned Champagne company while raising a family

DOWN UNDER

• Winemakers and science combine forces in Tasmanian project to find key to better bubbly
• ARC launches wine research centre in Adelaide

SOUTH AFRICA

• French Winemakers Are Flocking to South Africa–Here’s Why
• The Cape’s first winegrower

OLIVE OIL

• Unusual Weather Could Be Problematic for California Olive Crop

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Beer needs to play the natural card more
• Why can’t Native Americans make whiskey?
• New whiskey flavoured with beaver secretions launched