JANUARY 2, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

PG&E may have violated fire probation — Napa County resort property sold for massive loss – Vintage Wine Estates Appoints New COO – Big pot recall over fake tests – Big Employment Law Changes

TOP NEWS

• PG&E may have violated probation for its role in deadly California wildfires
• Napa County resort property sold for massive loss
• Vintage Wine Estates Appoints Jeff Nicholson COO
• Big recall ordered of pot products after lab is caught faking tests
• Dry January Has Financial Benefits for 88 Percent of People in Study
• 2019 Employee Payroll and Reimbursement Changes
• Wine and the Courts: Key 2018 Wine Trend #3
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• The Chinese Tmall/WeChat Model: How to Tap New Wine Distribution Models in China *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Monterey Wines Conjunctive Labeling Goes into Effect January 1, 2019
• Getting to know Lodi’s new mayor, Mark Chandler
• Retaliatory tariffs continue to hurt state’s exports
• California winery goes green in a big way
• How To Sell Wine Into Restaurants Effectively *Sponsored Link*

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

• FSA County Offices Now Closed Until Further Notice
• Ohio winery feeling ripple effects of government shutdown

LOOKING BACK AT 2018

• 4 Top-Performing Themes In Wine This Year, And 4 Other Ideas That Flopped
• 2018 Another Dry Year for California
• The Wine Year in Review
• Top New Wine Videos of 2018
• The Best Investments of 2018? Art, Wine and Cars
• Jim’s Loire: Looking back at 2018 & forward to 2019
• Lodi Winegrape Commission – Blog – Lodi in the 2018 national news
• 5 Ways Technology Can Help You Achieve New Year’s Resolutions

WILDFIRES

• Lawyers Recruit Paradise Wildfire Victims to Sue PG&E
• California’s Wine Country: A Year After The Fires

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Cannabis industry’s hope for California public bank derailed
• FDA casts shadow on hemp win, calling CBD products illegal
• How This Expert Pairs Cannabis with Wine and Cuisine
• One year of legal pot sales and California doesn’t have the bustling industry it expected. Here’s why
• Dining In 2019: Cannabis Drinks, Lots Of Veggies — Don’t Forget The Nootropics

DROUGHT/WATER

• Winter is shrinking, Scripps study finds, posing new fire, water risks
• More rain due to climate change might not mean more water resources
• Big Northern California Water Deals Will Trickle Down to San Diego
• Water projects agree to update operations pact

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Rough Start to Year as Stocks Reel From China Data:

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Tariffs Cloud a Bright Future for Fruit and Nut Industry

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Fine wine outperforms equities over 15 years
• Liv-ex 100 index dips 0.2% in 2018
• 2018 Power 100 – the best of the rest
• Year that was 2018 – top ten price performers

DATA & TRENDS

• Experts Predict What You’ll Be Drinking In 2019
• Which Drink Trends Should Disappear in 2019?
• Waitrose predicts key drinks trends for 2019

CELEBRITY WINE

• P!nk Sells Out Her First 114 Cases From Her New Wine Business

HEALTH

• Could alcohol and coffee be the keys to a long life? This study says yes
• Alcohol, coffee could be key to living longer, study finds
• Buzzed flies reveal important step to intoxication

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Sunday wine sales in grocery stores now legal in Tennessee

WINE CRIME

• Wine investment scammer ordered to pay back just £22K
• Probation ordered for Utah woman who spiked husband’s wine with generic Ativan

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Pine Wine: Wine descriptions: Fact, Fiction, Useful

MARKETING & SALES

• Beer and wine sales gaining steam in commissaries
• Lounge Lizard, Top NYC Digital Marketing Agency, shares 5 Tips for more effective Google Ads
• Prosecco Bursting the Champagne Bubble

WINE INSANITY

• Aboard a barrel and stocked with wine and foie gras, Frenchman takes on the Atlantic Ocean

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• Protest at Agricultural Robotics Conference Rings Familiar

MEDIA MATTERS

• Do Bianchi | Negotiating the Epistemologic Implications of Oenophilia
• Four Ways To Learn More About Wines
• The Future Of Wine Writing, Revisited

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Eight Ways You’re Drinking Champagne Wrong
• Great bubbly from England, believe it or not
• Do Your Champagne Bubbles Tell You How Good It Is?
• The story of California Chardonnay – part 3
• What does it take to be a lover of Italian wine?
• The Italian South Rises | Robert Camuto: Going Native in Europe
• Wine: The joy of going au natural
• What Did Jesus Drink? A Bethlehem Winery is Embracing Ancient, Indigenous Grapes
• Judson Haims: Like a good bourbon or wine, aging is a good thing
• Randall Murray: Resolutions, and a surprising red wine, worth keeping
• A More Subtle Anti-Terroirism
• Port’s Dilemma: ‘Before Dinner Is Too Early; After Too Late’
• Going Organic in Champagne: Hervé Jestin of Leclarc Briant
• Raising Arizona Wines

WINE EDUCATION

• WSET to mark 50 years of wine education
• WSET introduces global education week as part of 50th anniversary activity

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Monticello wine region expanding into Fluvanna
• Colorado Wine Country: the $300 million industry that keeps growing

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Organic vs. Biodynamic vs. Natural Wine—What’s the Difference?
• Not Every ‘Natural Wine’ Is Responsibly Farmed
• Alternative Bordeaux (1) biodynamics at Château Palmer
• Alternative Bordeaux (2) Château Falfas, Côtes de Bourg
• Fetzer Vineyards COO Cindy DeVries Named “Green Personality of the Year”

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Farm Injuries Can be a Direct Path to Opioid Addiction in Families
• Science and Wine: Wine Science Cafés
• Science and Wine: Immobilization yeasts in oak chips or cellulose powder

PACIFIC RIM

• A taste of Australian cellar doors in Chinese homes
• ‘The perfect crime’: Aussie business battles counterfeit wine in China
• Cellar door opens in Perth city to smooth winery’s path to China
• Hong Kong-listed wine firm Madison to buy US$30 million stake in Japanese platform

SOUTH AFRICA

• Standard bottle of South African wine now costs R380 in Qatar
• Wine merchant Mnikelo Mangciphu: A Soweto wine merchant