MARCH 7, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Nielsen enters cannabis measurement in the U.S.
• How Wine.com Is Finding Success With Millennials
• Napa County may legalize new version of Napa land plan rejected by voters
• Total Wine Seeks Full 2nd Circuit En Banc Review on Challenge to Connecticut Pricing Laws
• Wonder Women Of Wine Conference Fosters Equality In A Male-Dominated Industry
• Facebook’s reputation (worse than Comcast) continues to tank mainly by botching privacy, personal data, fake news debacles
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Challenging Times Ahead for US Wine
• Teeter-Totter Sues Palm Bay International/Wine Over Mouse, Elephant & Seesaw
• National Consumers League, CSPI + 67 other groups petition TTB for ingredient labeling for AlcBevs
• Millennials love Beatbox, But did Mark Cuban buy into the future or another Annie Green Springs?
• BeatBox bests Saucey, moves into #16 position in Wine Tech fundings with $15.87 million
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Beer, Spirits, & Wine – Packaged Imports Grow +7.90% By Value Over Last Twelve Months through December 2018, Packaged Exports Decline -10.0%
• The 5 biggest export markets for UK wines (slideshow)
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• CleanFund starts PACE financing for wineries, distillers; Napa County ‘bird cannon’ hearing March 8
• Napa – Then and Now
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SONOMA FLOODS

• Pax Wines Flood Recovery – GoFundMe

WILDFIRES

• Oregon Wineries Come Together To Save Grapes Rejected For Smoke Taint
• Judge might order ‘dismal’ PG&E to halt shareholder dividends to focus on wildfires

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Why the CBD Market Is Likely to Boom for Many Years
• Seven Buds for Seven Brothers

AMAZON

• Amazon shutters all US pop-up stores for book, grocery and 4-star outlets
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DROUGHT/WATER

• UC to offer more training for water diverters
• Why California’s droughts and floods will only get worse
• One rainy season doesn’t mean California’s drought problems are over
• Russian River environment: Our invisible but critical water source
• Water Supply Reliability Estimation: An overview
• Plan to protect Colorado River still isn’t done. Now what?
• How droughts will affect South Africa’s broader economy

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• The Bordeaux wine trade introduces an environmental charter
• Eritage Vineyards and American Lending Center Celebrate LIVE Certification

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Changing Alcohol Consumption: The Real Trend?
• Wine, Millennials and the Art of the Proper Rant

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?



PUBLIC COMPANIES

• AB InBev’s chairman will step down
• C&C confirms positive growth and “significant” momentum

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Personalized wine? This Milwaukee company just raised $8.5 million to prove it’s the future

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• America is losing Trump’s trade war
• U.S. trade policy still up the air, expert says

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Push to allow more alcohol in Utah beer hits stumbling block

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Sensory tests suggest ‘liking’ wines made with native grapes a learned response
• Why are sommeliers so influential?
• Americans’ drinking habits vary by faith
• What Democrats and Republicans Drink on Mardi Gras
• Blind tasting and finding typicity in DOQ Priorat
• This is the official time of ‘wine o’clock’

MARKETING & SALES

• How to captivate a wine audience

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Smurfit Kappa Acquires New Facility In Texas For Manufacturing Wine Taps
• UK: Ground broken on County Durham sustainable wine bottling plant
• The canned wine conundrum

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Climate Change Leadership conference begins in Porto
• Porto conference: ‘Wine is the canary in the coal mine’
• Climate Change Leadership highlights actions taken and reiterates the importance of ‘sharing’
• Vinexpo Takes Victory Lap in New York
• Vinexpo New York confirms 2020 show dates

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to pivot to privacy and the internet can’t even

PAYMENTS

• Iron Gate Wine to accept bitcoin for purchasing fine and rare vintage wine

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• How Wine Businesses Are Using Emerging Technologies

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How globalisation made skin-contact great again
• Listán Prieto: the New World’s original grape variety
• Appreciating Wine for the Right Reasons (Part 4 in a Series)
• The Genetic History Of Brewer’s Yeast

WINE PEOPLE

• Women Winemakers to Watch: Kat Gaffney and McKenna Giardine
• Notable First Women in Wine History
• Meet Ami Opisso, the creative leader of two major Long Island wine labels
• Bruce Cakebread of Cakebread Cellars, Napa Valley (podcast)

WINE EDUCATION

• The Institute of Masters of Wine appoints new executive director

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Online grocery shopping in the US – a snapshot

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Washington Winegrowers elect board members
• Resorts hoping to capitalize on Yakima Valley’s wine country

ACADEMIA

• Allan Hancock College’s campus winery gives students opportunities to learn the art of making and selling award-winning wine
• Cal Poly Pomona students tend, cultivate and harvest wine grapes on campus vineyards

EUROPE & THE UK

• France struggles to get rid of glyphosate
• Chablis grower objects to wind turbines in vineyards
• UK: Latest round of Vindependents share options support growth
• Bubble Trouble? Champagne Region Dips Into High-End Vodka
• Armit backs Italy with several new agency partnerships
• An Italian Cinderella Wine Story: Elvio Cogno And Barolo’s Ravera Cru

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Are grain crop burn-offs a cereal offence against the wine industry?
• OZ: Picking the best noses to sniff out stinky pests
• OZ: Winery owner who ‘begged’ for fuel reduction burns loses everything in Bunyip fire
• NZ: Lighter wines on the up

LATIN AMERICA

• Chilean Winery Discovers Rare Grape Variety Only Found on Three Other Vines in the World

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa: Five drinking trends expected to shake things up in 2019

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Female founders shaking up the spirits world (slideshow)
• The Beer Industry Grapples With Racism, Again