NOVEMBER 8, 2018 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• John Fetzer Sells Mendocino’s Saracina Vineyards to the Taub Family’s Heritance Vintners
• Jesus Guillen, Winemaker of White Rose Estate, dies
• 60% of Millennials are likely to buy private-label beverages
• Q&A: Constellation Brands’ new CEO Bill Newlands talks Corona, wine and weed
• US Christmas sales predicted to surpass $1 trillion for the first time this year
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Kuvée brings in $8.25 million before biting the dust at #16 in WineTech funding
• Raley’s Ups Its Game In Beverage Alcohol
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Australia’s wine industry faces supply risks amid growing demand for premium wine
• What a NYC Somm Learned Working Harvest in Burgundy

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Bob Lindquist explains the sale of his legendary Santa Barbara winery, Qupe
• New Mondavi Plan Upsets Some Locals
• Girard Winery opens new Calistoga estate
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WILDFIRES

• PG&E might cut juice for second time in less than a month in parts of Northern California to reduce fire risk

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Pot Is No Miracle Cure for What Ails Big Food
• Marijuana Wins Big in the Midterms
• Michigan vote to legalize pot fires up investor momentum behind cannabis
• Voters give thumbs up to cannabis taxes in Lake, Mendocino, Solano counties
• Canadian drinks giant is launching a beer brewed with cannabis in 2019
• Beverage-cannabis names take off after Sessions resignation
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DROUGHT/WATER

• Brown, Newsom wade in to delay plan to withhold water from cities, farms
• Checking assertions with data: Untangling factors that constrain water exports from the San Francisco Bay estuary
• CA voters defeat water bond

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WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Flying for Thanksgiving?: Alaska Airlines Checks Your Wine For Free

MARKETING & SALES

• TV wine ads: Drink Black Tower, invade a foreign country

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• ‘The Champagne of Beers’ Will Come in Champagne Bottles for the Holiday Season

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Dates for ProWein 2020 set

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Programs work to bring veterans into agriculture

MEDIA MATTERS

• Extract: Brut Force by Peter Stafford-Bow
• All the Ways In Which Coffee and Wine Compare (book review)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Mastering the Mis-interpreted Merlot
• A toast to boğazkere, the Turkish grape behind a new Australian red wine
• Saving America’s Indigenous Wine Grapes
• Helmut Dönnhoff on finding the natural ‘talent in the vineyard’
• Join the Italian rosé revolution

WINE PEOPLE

• Meet Oregon’s French Winemakers

WINE TOURISM

• Who Are Wine Tourists

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Washington Ecology proposes new fees on wineries
• NY: Grape expectations for region’s winemakers

ACADEMIA

• Allan Hancock College produces award-winning wine as students roll up their sleeves for harvest and winemaking

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Can Champagne help us think bigger on sustainability?
• Château Latour Becomes the First 1st Growth to be Certified Organic for its red wine
• If You Buy Organic Wine, You May Be Funding Far More Soil Damage

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• How to grow your own wine grapes in Western Washington

EUROPE & THE UK

• WSTA expands board to focus on ‘new era of trading’ following UK tax hike on wine
• Château de Chambord plants ‘first vines since French Revolution’
• Denbies to develop UK’s first vineyard hotel and quadruple production

DOWN UNDER

• Australian grapegrowers and consumers becoming more experimental
• Upcoming amalgamation of Winemakers’ Federation of Australia & Australian Vignerons: “the right move for the industry”
• OZ: ACCC invites Riverina growers to share their industry concerns at Griffin forum

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Wine consumption grows fast in China thanks to burgeoning middle class

SOUTH AFRICA

• Why blended wines are the stars of South Africa

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

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