OCTOBER 8, 2018 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• 2018 Holiday retail growth projected to decline from 2017
• Napa & Sonoma: 2018 Could be “One for the Record Books”
• The New Way To Invest In Wine: Pay Farmers First, And Prioritize Inclusion
• Why has Treasury succeeded at Augmented Reality labels, but Gallo has failed?
• Non-alcoholic wine and beer market will hit $25 billion by 2024
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• MailChimp could cancel you for violating this “Catch 22” rule that every marketer ignores
• Spirits tops beer among Millennials (and both trounce wine)
• What Makes a Good Sommelier? *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Harvest 2018 Update, Napa and the Finger Lakes
• Lodi wine grape farmers fight to save unpicked zinfandel
• UK: Simpsons Wine expects record harvest as volumes increase almost sevenfold

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa grants Davis Estates big wine production, visitor increases
• Dream Big Darling brings women to fore of local wine and spirits industry
• Can The Prisoner’s Dave Phinney Recapture Lightning in a Bottle?
• How To Build a Wine Program That Creates A Loyal Clientele *Sponsored Link*

WILDFIRES

• Red-flag fire danger warning issued for Bay Area hills
• California Enters Peak Fire Season With Delaware-Sized Burn Scar
• Wineries, vineyards clash over how to handle grapes affected by wildfire smoke
• OR: Smoke taint not an issue in Umpqua Valley
• One year later, state still silent on cause of deadly Tubbs Fire
• California wildfire victims say cleanup crews add to woes
• How Two Businesses Are Bouncing Back From California’s Most Destructive Wildfire

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• All the potential red flags for investors in IGC, the pot stock that jumped 1,000% in three months
• Chief scientific officer of a high-flying cannabis product company faked data at the NIH
• Constellation Brands: ‘The cannabis space is opening up much more rapidly than originally expected’
• California’s new marijuana law is a first but likely not the last
• Molson Coors finalises deal to form Truss cannabis JV
• New Cannabis Tech Boosting Industry and Providing a Better User Experience
• 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

• The Public Trust and SGMA
• Mendocino: Water shortage declaration extended

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?



PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Brands Inc (STZ) Q2 2019 Earnings Conference Call Transcript

DISTRIBUTORS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Artisanal Blockchain: How Tech Companies Trace Fine Wines And Vanilla Back To Their Source
• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – new high for Mouton 1982 and Champagne bubbling

DATA & TRENDS

• The number of wineries per US state

HEALTH

• Red Wine Is Apparently Good for You Again. Especially If You Inhale It
• Why I Often Trust Common Sense Over Data

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Wine value 2018: Where we’re at today and what could happen next year
• Christine Parkinson: how to choose wines for Hakkasan’s global empire
• The Rise of Boozy Vending Machines
• The sommelier finds room to breathe
• Sommelier Roundtable: What’s Your Biggest Pet Peeve?

MARKETING & SALES

• A Peek At The WISE Way To Train Modern Wine Marketers
• The Ford model

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Bloggers get immersion into Walla Walla wines
• Free masterclasses confirmed for Wine & Spirits Show
• NCSLA 2018 Atlantic City, Part II
• Vinexpo New York to return to Manhattan in 2019

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• GDPR is leading to more second-party data deals

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Give artificial taste and olfactory intelligence for automatic wine analysis
• Are sauvignon aromas incompatible with oak?
• This is why you should always decant your wine — Champagne included
• Austrian Riesling & Grüner Veltliner: Up to the Challenges of 2016
• Chianti Classico on a roll
• Roussillon’s Three Js
• The bourbanization of wine

WINE PEOPLE

• Unfiltered: Anne McHale MW, The Coral Room
• Peter Sisseck: What it takes to be the best
• Interview with Chiara De Iulis Pepe of the iconic Abruzzo winery Emidio Pepe
• The lil’ ole winemakers of Main Street

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Oregon wineries rally round for Rogue Valley growers left high and dry
• The Promise and Peril of Mexico’s Wine Revolution
• Canadians’ long-term gripes about wine and Concord grapes

EUROPE & THE UK

• Hubert de Boüard and Philippe Castéja contest their indictment
• French Wine’s Hybrid Dilemma
• Excessive duty ‘restricting growth’ of English wine industry
• Ireland passes ‘groundbreaking’ bill to curb excessive drinking
• UK winemakers lobby government to scrap “damaging” planned tax rises
• How to Denmark

SOUTH AFRICA

• More on the history of grape varieties in the Cape

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Lebanon wines bring villages back to life and emigrants home

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• The Dirty Secret Ruining Your Draft Beer
• Consumers willing to pay more for sustainably brewed beer