OCTOBER 12, 2018 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Young’s Market VP Narito named by Wine Searcher in Somm Scandal
• Too many grapes? N.Coast wine grape crop has fewer buying excess tonnage
• A closer look at the Supreme Court decision To Revisit Wine and Spirits DTC
• Napa’s winery foot traffic rebounded big time after Oct 2017 fires
• “China’s soaking up wine like blotting paper” and changing world of buying
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Saucey ranks #13 in wine venture funding survey, #2 in on-demand delivery
• Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas Board of Directors Establishes Parameters for Retests for Candidates Affected by Voided Exam
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Turrentine Market Update
• Four-Year Forecast of Oregon Wine Grape Prices
• Lodi: Let the winemaking begin
• Things hotting up for English wine following record-breaking summer
• Is a bumper 2018 harvest good for champagne? (slideshow)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Valley Grapegrowers ROOTSTOCK 2018 is Nov. 8
• Napa Valley wine barrel builder Nadalié USA picks David Duckhorn as CFO
• J. Lohr Reaches Decade Milestone with Touching Lives Program
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WILDFIRES

• Smoke Risk Likely to Change Grape Contracts
• Napa fires one year on and what happened to Signorello

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Annual cannabis harvest underway in Northern California as pot economy transitions
• A Crash Course for Investors on the Lingo of (Legal) Weed
• Cannabis Farmers Yearn for Appellations
• Big Tobacco finally wakes up and smells the cannabis
• Marijuana use leads to more sex
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DROUGHT/WATER

• Less Snow Could Be Coming To California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains
• Critical OID Tunnel Project Nearly Done
• Developing a Delta habitat restoration adaptive management program

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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo identifies low and no alcohol as number one trend for 2019

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Winemakers’ Federation of Australia statement on upcoming TPP-11 Senate hearing

DISTRIBUTORS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Upcoming Sotheby’s Wine Auction Offers Up a Rare, Historic Burgundy Collection from Robert Drouhin’s Personal Cellar
• Bordeaux 2016: Price rises ‘for the few’?

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Champagne Remark May Cost Lawyer $289 Million Bayer Award

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Sommeliers push back at decision to strip ‘master’ titles after incident of cheating
• Aliens (no, not that one): A wine parable (sort of)

MARKETING & SALES

• Blurring category lines – Adjust Your Focus

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Ball set to close its San Martino, Italy beverage packaging plant

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWine China looks forward to 2018 edition
• TFWA visitor numbers break 7,000 barrier for first time

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• California Privacy Law Expected To Have Nationwide Impact

MEDIA MATTERS

• New wine mag on the block: Root & Vine
• Decanter wine app reaches 7,000 downloads with California update
• Wine As History, Not Just Industry
• I’m so old that… Boutique Winery Just Doesn’t Cut It

WINE PEOPLE

• Wilfrid Franc de Ferrière of Château Carbonneau and Sainte-Foy AOC in Bordeaux
• Unfiltered: Alex Frequin, Moor Hall
• How one Chicago sommelier seeks out ‘hip-hop’ wines: ‘If it ain’t yummy, it ain’t flyin’ ‘

WINE PLACES

• The ‘Wine Archive’ That Quietly Improves the World’s Wine
• 11 things you should know about Château Margaux

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• New York Enacts Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Traditional Breeding of PD-Resistant Winegrapes
• New colorimetric test has potential to minimise wine spoilage

EUROPE & THE UK

• France: Disease-resistant grapevines launched in 2019 in PGI vineyards
• Cru Bourgeois body confirms return to three-tier system

DOWN UNDER

• Australia and New Zealand to introduce alcohol warning labels
• Emerging and hybrid grape varieties the focus for Queensland
• Luxury brand lessons for Aussie wine producers says Nuffield Scholar

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• India’s second biggest winery secures US$8M funding
• Penfolds baijiu-fortified red wine toasts China’s love affair with hard liquor

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine decanter watch launched on Kickstarter

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• NZ to invest $13M in developing unique ‘Kiwi’ hop