JANUARY 30, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Teetotal for a year: why waking up to low and no is the trade’s biggest challenge
• Sextant Wines Purchases Old Edna Township
• Cannabis, wine still a murky mixture
• What PG&E’s Bankruptcy Could Mean for Climate, Victims
• Personalization: Using data to improve every aspect of the customer experience
• What your wine choices say about the way you think
• Top tips to aspiring young winemakers from Chris Thomas of Dowie Doole. Click now to learn more! *Sponsored Link*

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Phone in rice. Charge phone in microwave? – The most Googled tech myths in each state
• PG&E filed for bankruptcy: What does that mean + Court Filings
• How To Sell Wine Into Restaurants Effectively*Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Certified Sustainable 2018 Report Released by CSWA Highlights Continued Growth and Adoption
• Lodi Winegrape Commission Plans New Marketing, Organizational
• Inside the Growing Role of Social Media Influencers in the Wine Industry *Sponsored Link*

PG&E, WILDFIRES

• S&P downgrades PG&E’s rating to below junk
• For fire victims, bankruptcy likely means smaller payouts
• After bankruptcy, PG&E headed back to court over wildfires

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Cannabis and Its Discontents in Santa Barbara County
• U.S. Hemp Production Trending and Poised for New Growth

BREXIT

• Spanish Vineyards Fearing Hard Brexit Ship More Rioja to U.K.
• Brexit’s Latest: Stockpiling on Moet & Chandon Champagne
• The Increasing Cost of Wine in The UK
• Brexit brinkmanship: UK demands deal change, EU says ‘non’

DROUGHT/WATER

• Water outlook improves after recent storms
• OZ: ANU research uses satellite data to predict drought and wildfires
• Survey Shows Areas of Land Subsidence in the Sacramento Valley

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Why don’t we recycle more wine bottles?
• Scandinavian style: Climate change pushes wine to the fringes

WINE CRIME & FRAUD DETECTION

• Wine Fraud: Chemical Fingerprint Uncorks Juicy Facts
• High-precision chemical fingerprint allows unambiguous identification

INSULT OR COMPLIMENT?

• Head of French Taittinger Champagne house says the ‘crazy’ English invented the fizzy wine

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Wine store’s lawsuit demands Manitoba cut off online ‘bootleggers’

DATA & TRENDS

• Mixed blessings from US Millennials
• U.S. consumer morale at one-and-a-half year-low; house price gains slow

THE SHUTDOWN

• ‘We know how to survive,’ but U.S. shutdown cut deep for Native Americans

HEALTH

• 3-liter wine carton ban raised a flap in Norway

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• OK: Beer sales up with new laws, but some liquor stores hurt

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• 37 Complete Sommelier Program in London
• What America Drinks Every Day of the Year

MARKETING & SALES

• New cell phone repair shop serving beer and wine
• How To Sell Wine Into Restaurants Effectively *Sponsored Link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Ardagh upgrades its 3D Studio for metal packaging
• Avery Dennison joins Everledger in wine traceability collaboration

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• New wineries set for debut at the Kosher Food and Wine Experience

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Yellow Tail Harnesses Power Of Social Media For Third Super Bowl Ad

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Learn to Taste by Taking Better Wine Tasting Notes
• Wine revolution: Why unusual grapes are now the new normal
• Berger on wine: The myths of decanting
• The Wine Glass: Form, Function, & Fragility
• 9 best wine racks
• Does Clear Ice Really Matter?
• How Natural Wines Develop Reductive Notes
• Citrusy Sauvignon Blanc is the UK’s favourite
• Vermouth renaissance
• Sauvignon’s Success Continues to Climb

WINE PEOPLE

• Yumi Tanabe, Japan’s Woman of Wine

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Program would allow Washington prison inmates to work in vineyard, hopyard
• Truth Promise of Precision Agriculture

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK on-trade 2019 to-do list
• Did wine cause a full-scale revolution in Armenia?

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Farming Around the ‘Navel of the World’