OCTOBER 26, 2018 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• 66% of wine drinkers find wine descriptions unhelpful in choosing wine. Only 9% rely on critics
• Alcohol sales still growing in the face of cannabis legalization in Canada
• Rewriting California wine’s ‘herstory,’ from Judgment of Paris to today
• Sopexa’s world trends: which varieties and countries are most in demand
• Race From The Bottom — How Should Wine Regions Break Into New Markets?
• Cellaring wine bottles on the side could hasted cork failure
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• At $20 million, Vinfolio — after 15 years of financial instability — moves into #12 position in wine tech funding series
• The Three Horsemen of the Grapepocalypse, Part 1: Revenge of the Grape Market Cycle
• What Makes a Good Sommelier? *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• English wines lead British export growth to the US
• Low harvest pushes Bordeaux upwards
• Bordeaux faces bitter harvest as it gets to grips with climate change

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa vs Oregon Wine Country: Coppola Edition
• How a Napa divorcee saved the Judgment of Paris
• Nakedwines.com hosts WINE WOMEN on November 7th in Napa
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WILDFIRES

• 2018 wildfires increase risk of flooding

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Defections From Beverage Alcohol May Speak To The Future For Legal Cannabis
• How to Not Get Squeezed Out by the Coming Cannabis Market Consolidation
• 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

• Amazon Go makes California debut
• Amazon revenue grows 29% to $56.6 billion in Q3 2018, AWS up 46%

DROUGHT/WATER

• More Mild than Wild in NOAA’s Latest Winter Forecast
• Working With Nature Across the Land Use Spectrum: A Holistic Approach to Ecological Resilience

RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• Flushing toilets will benefit farms
• Montecito Wastewater Wars Escalate

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Retailers Hit Back at Wine Distributors

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?



FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Coppolla Vineyard Buy Latest in Ongoing Trend

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Trade war with China is starting to get nasty for US companies

DISTRIBUTORS

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HEALTH

• Alcohol ‘hijacks’ the brain to impair memory and cause long-lasting cravings, study suggests

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• New California law aims to protect pollinators

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How to Properly Design a Wine List

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• You can now ‘follow’ your favourite places on Google Maps
• The Social Series: Who’s Using Snapchat?
• Snap sees revenue jump 43% in Q3 2018, but loses 2 million daily active users

MEDIA MATTERS

• Slow Wine guide 2019 to include more than 130 California winemakers, 50 from Oregon

WINE PEOPLE

• Bertrand Gourdou of Château Guilhem on creating the Malpère appellation and continuing his family’s legacy
• Diane Gualtieri of Château Pas Du Cerf and Château Camp Long on the elegance of Provence rosé
• Interview with Gary Horner, Erath Winemaker
• Chris Carpenter podcast with Doug Shafer
• Ken Freeman of Freeman Vineyard & Winery, Sonoma (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• San Diego’s new wine region

WINE EDUCATION

• Just because I’m learning it doesn’t mean I’m stupid

WINE TOURISM

• Ideas That Rattle The Cage Of What You Thought You Knew About Wine, Food And Tourism
• Unlocking tourism growth through innovation

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OR: $800 million wine, beer, sin tax to slam small business
• A Guide to Southern Oregon Wine
• Texas wine industry grows into its own

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• The main challenge the wine industry faces is climate change

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• 26 new grape varieties identified in Bío Bío
• USDA Announces Update to National Road Map for Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
• Biocontrol for bunch rot
• Lessons in doing the impossible

EUROPE & THE UK

• France: Martell fights for the right to choose maturation techniques
• UK hospitality sector continues to grow despite Brexit concerns
• UK: Former Armit Wines’ marketing head joins Gusbourne in new role
• 21st century independence, French style
• Did the EU blunder in cutting off SA and others from port and sherry?

DOWN UNDER

• Winemakers Federation Australia to run more WET (Wine Equalisation Tax) Rebate seminars in Australian wine regions
• Three charts on: how and what Australians eat (hint: it’s not good)

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Cult Wines opens Singapore office
• India: Punjab government bans ‘cancer-causing’ weedicide
• Japan: A town wiped out by a tsunami 25 years ago is a lesson in what not to do after disaster

SOUTH AFRICA

• Stellenbosch wine farm owners’ ‘land invasion’ eviction case postponed

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Russians Are Turning Their Backs On Vodka And Drinking More Beer

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Costco is selling giant, four-foot-tall wine glasses

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Beer Institute Releases September 2018 Domestic Tax Paid Estimate
• Boston Beer Reports Third Quarter 2018 Results