APRIL 23, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• How A Digital Negociant Helped Change The U.S. Wine World
• Gallo’s acquisition strategy is gift that keeps on giving
• Is a 1935 Alcohol Beverage Federal Trade Practice Law Stifling Innovation?
• Thinking Outside the Wine Box about Climate Change & the Future of Wine
• Majestic eyes retail exit in Naked push for growth
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Amazon Is Coming For Wine and That’s a Good Thing
• 2018 California Final Grape Crush Report; Total crush 4.5M tons, up 6.2% from 2017
• Alcopop Party Drink Beatbox leads Millennials to wine by selling the party (and not mentioning wine!) 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
• Wonderful Company aims for 100% renewable power *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Tariffs fomenting turmoil in world wine markets
• Sonoma County Chardonnay Prices
• Dangerous Spring Frost Hits Burgundy
• English and Welsh sparkling wine sales hit new record
• Port: Fladgate latest to announce back-to-back vintage declaration
• Chile/Argentina: Santa Rita harvest reveals yields down, quality up
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa County watershed divide widens
• Clarice Wine Company: The Next Evolution in How We Wine
• Fresno has hundreds of liquor stores licenses. A new proposal would cut the number in half.
• The mezcalifornia movement: Our first commercial agave spirit is on its way
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TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• What the California cannabis industry can learn from wine
• What Does the Wine Industry Have to Learn from the Cannabis Industry?: More thoughts
• Lots of cash ride on cannabis gender, so Sonoma County startup launches quick testing
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AMAZON

• How to structure your Amazon Advertising account for success
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DROUGHT/WATER

• Drought will become the norm by mid-century as the planet warms
• As California’s delta smelt spirals toward extinction, a future in captivity awaits

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Climate Change and California’s Crops
• California Has Farmers Growing Weeds. Why? To Capture Carbon
• Wente Vineyards Announces 2019 Sustainability Report Card
• How climate change is affecting the Australian wine industry
• 3 Great Reasons To Drink Wines Made With Organic Grapes

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• E. & J. Gallo Winery Unveils “Women Behind the Wine” Empowerment Campaign
• Seagram heiress pleads guilty in ‘sex cult’ case
• Diageo forms joint venture with China’s Yanghe, releases whisky
• Castle Brands Announces Strong Case Sales Performance For its Fiscal Year ended March 31, 2019
• Is the Treasury Wines share price in the buy zone?

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Why Trump’s tariffs are one of the last big obstacles in U.S.-China trade talks

DISTRIBUTORS

• Third Leaf Wines Acquires Mulderbosch
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BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR

• En primeur campaign launches with increased prices

HEALTH

• The newest trend in athletic recovery? Drinking beer

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Labeling bill causing friction among Oregon winemakers
• FUCT gets day in court as SCOTUS considers dropping slippery moral standard when granting trademarks

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How to Source Back-Vintage Wines for a List

MARKETING & SALES

• Craft + brand authenticity + Millennials drive spirits growth
• 10 Ways To Keep The Customers You Already Have
• Vriesenhof — turning a product into a brand

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Why Breweries Are Turning to Small-Format Cans

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Twitter beats expectations with revenue of $787 million as monthly users rise to 330 million

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Simple Pleasures of Italy’s Native Grapes
• Crafting rosé with intention
• Hawke’s Bay ‘one of the great Chardonnay regions of the world’

WINE PEOPLE

• Winemaker Sarah Holt Mullins Works the Deepest Corners of the Santa Maria Valley
• Views from the winemaker of California’s Scharffenberger Cellars: Jeffrey Jindra

WINE EDUCATION

• Tuscan producer pledges £1,500 to secure Italy’s first Master of Wine

WINE TOURISM

• Why An Agriturismo Can Provide Peaceful and Practical Lodging

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Mario Batali’s Former Empire Is Thriving—as Long as He Stays Away

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Willamette Still West Coast’s Wine Sweetheart
• Houston wine professional Joseph Kemble is dying and he needs our help

EUROPE & THE UK

• Britons drank record amount of homegrown sparkling wine in 2018
• Cristal 2018 to break new ground, says Champagne Roederer
• Hundreds of bottles of vintage wine and champagne discovered in shipwreck off Cornish coast
• French wines and spirits the subject of an ongoing anti-competitive investigation

DOWN UNDER

• Women in Wine – celebrating diversity in the New Zealand wine industry
• The Heaviest Drinkers In Australia Consume More Than Half The Alcohol In The Country

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chinese official calls for reduced taxes on wine
• Chandon reports success with ‘China-adapted’ sparkling wine

SOUTH AFRICA

• SA agri-tech competition seeks innovative solutions for wine producers
• South Africa wine history: Vergelegen after WA van der Stel (plus the start of biltong)

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Reasons You Failed Your Master Sommelier Exams (satire)

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Quick Aging Spirits Is New Frontier For Seagram Scion
• Is the craft beer ‘gold rush’ over? UK brewery openings plummet in 2018