JANUARY 8, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

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TOP NEWS

• Claims about harms from organic wine & farming are junk science from a stealth corporate misinformation group.
• Southern/Young’s doubles its fee on retailers in San Francisco, blames new homeless tax
• Copper Cane label saga continues
• Wine Institute Donates Archive to UC Davis
• Seven Ways Wine Will Change in 2019
• Government Shutdown Affects Beverage Alcohol Industry
• Tips to stay compliant when adjusting Bottled Wine Inventory on your TTB 5120.17. Click now to learn more! *Sponsored Link*

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• ‘World’s Greatest Wine Library’ at UC Davis Continues to Grow
• PG&E Bankruptcy Talk Sets Stage for a Showdown With California
• Petaluma, Sonoma County partner to draw visitors
• Santa Rosa to rethink plan for luring developers downtown
• Mumford & Sons, Imagine Dragons, Neil Young, Santana among headliners for BottleRock
• Inside the Growing Role of Social Media Influencers in the Wine Industry *Sponsored Link*

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Cannabis Cash Flows Into U.S. With Canopy Venture Arm Investment

DROUGHT/WATER

• Next storm set to arrive by midweek
• State’s Retiring Snow Guru Talks Snowpack Tech and California Water

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Grocery Stores Open Tap On In-Store Bars
• Why Breweries Are Opening Locations in Malls
• Pizza Hut is expanding its US beer delivery service ahead of the Super Bowl

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Aurora Cannabis’s stock slips as revenue growth outlook falls shy of some estimates

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• President Trump, Fed Chairman Powell and market outlook

DISTRIBUTORS

• Liberty Wines adds Bodega Garzón to its portfolio

IDATA & TRENDS

• Wine-cider hybrids offer the best of two worlds

HEALTH

• Is It Cold Outside? You Might Be Drinking More

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• BC Wine & Liquor Law Conference Feb 25th
• Impending Supreme Court Hearing Could Open Doors
• Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) Approves TIPS Online Alcohol Server and Seller Training Program

MARKETING & SALES

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PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• TricorBraun Welcomes Declan McCarthy as CFO

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• What’s Ahead for 2019? Wine Economist World Tour Update
• Prowein geared up for 25th edition

MEDIA MATTERS

• Top wine influencers in the beverage industry: ranking the top ten
• The Wine Advocate releases Burgundy 2017 En Primeur report
• Are you a wine communicator? Don’t miss these opportunities

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Why Elizabeth Warren — and every would-be president — prefers macrobrews
• Amarone – Getting to the Roots Of Italy’s Most Powerful Red Wine
• The Growing Thirst for Exotic Wine
• Rosés and Fizzy Reds Are The New Light Winter Wines
• Martian wine? Experts in Georgia looking for the perfect Red Planet grape.
• In Napa, Cabernet Is Never Just Cabernet Could be old, undated

WINE EDUCATION

• Washington Wine Industry to offer thousands of dollars in scholarships
• Agriculture scholarship applications open for university students

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• AZ: Neighbors concerned over proposed plans for Catalina vineyard

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Making sustainability sustainable

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• How Gravity-Flow Wineries are Taking Grapes to New Heights
• Aging on lees and wine Pulsed electric fields release mannoproteins
• New complex carbohydrate discovered in barley
• New CRISPR-based technology developed to control pests with precision-guided genetics

EUROPE & THE UK

• French government rewards Portuguese wine personality
• Non-alcoholic beer sales rose £7.6 million over Christmas
• Gin growth helps Halewood’s operating profit rise by over 300%

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• The women leading China’s winemaking revolution

OLIVE OIL

• Olive oil, increasingly known and appreciated by the Canadian consumer
• New course on quality and authenticity in olive oil
• The EC does not rule out actions before the WTO in defense of table olives

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Is That Classic Cocktail’s Origin Story Actually True?
• The World’s Top 10 Beer Destinations for 2019