APRIL 29, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Turning a Critical Eye on Wine Critics
• Annual SVB/WBM Direct Consumer Sales Videocast
• The TTB is stepping up enforcement
• ‘Getting Worse, Not Better’: Illegal Pot Market Booming in California Despite Legalization
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Sonoma’s Ravenswood tasting room to close
• Calif winegrape acreage up 6.3%, but non-bearing soars 20.5%
• 2018 California Final Grape Crush Report; Total crush 4.5M tons, up 6.2% from 2017
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• How Wines From a Little-Known Region Became Some of the Most Expensive in the World
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Tariffs slow Lodi’s reach into China wine markets
• Inglenook to expand its wine caves in the Napa Valley
• Sonoma County, a geographical enigma?
• New winery opens April 27 in Sonoma’s Bartholomew Park
• The Raisin Situation
• Ballast Point ‘halting’ plans for brewpub near SF’s new Chase Center
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WILDFIRES

• Wildfire fears remain detrimental to Sonoma County’s tourism sector
• Neither fires nor floods can keep wine country visitors away
• Sonoma County Tourism leader explains efforts to overcome visitors’ negative perceptions of the fires

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Jobs in pot are at an all-time high, but the boom is causing rifts in the traditional workforce
• Canada: Cannabis beverage alliance calls for rules on par with alcohol industry
• Cannabis Professionals Are Tackling the Industry’s Big Issues
• Recruiting for cannabis workers
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AMAZON

• Amazon’s one-day shipping Prime offer is an attempt to suck you in for life
• Amazon is using customer search data for to find brands to target
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DROUGHT/WATER

• A warm start to spring; low pressure system may bring thunderstorms to southern California
• Fish are born free, but are everywhere in cages this spring

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• How can you doubt global warming?

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Free the Grapes Alabama: Clear the Way for Winery Direct Shipments

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?

• New Zealand’s Fine Wine Life

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Pernod Ricard creates employee share ownership scheme
• Walmart Opens AI-Powered Store
• MAP: Walmart stores by state and the potential for online grocery growth

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• U.S.-China Talks to Resume With Significant Issues Unresolved

DISTRIBUTORS

• How to Work with Multiple Distributors in the Same Market
• Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Launches B2B eCommerce Experience
• Cheap wine fans rejoice: Domaine Tariquet returns to the U.S.
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BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR 2018

• Bordeaux 2018: Releases begin earlier than expected
• Suduiraut 2018 released
• Branaire Ducru 2018 released
• Langoa Barton 2018 released

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• OZ: Records set at the 2019 Barossa Wine Auction
• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – Burgundy at a recent high and Bordeaux Petits Chateaux releases

DATA & TRENDS

• Winery tasting room fees level off after years of increases

HEALTH

• Wine drinkers don’t cheat much
• Can people have a reaction to histamine in red wine?
• Alcohol intake and risk of lethal prostate cancer in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study
• 100-year-old woman reveals that drinking loads of wine is the secret to living longer
• How wine-mom culture shifted from funny memes to unhappy hangovers

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Penfolds wins lawsuit against ‘Rush Rich’ copycat
• Parmesan from Wisconsin? How dairy you?! Italy wants to reclaim its cheese.

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• The Secret to Le Bernardin’s Award-Winning Wine Program? Female Sommeliers

MARKETING & SALES

• We Need More Truthful Advertising in the Wine Industry
• Jeremy Thomson on choosing your right marketing channel
• In the Customer Experience Era, Behavior Matters More than Demographics

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Ball commits to 100% renewable energy in North America by 2021

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Vinexpo green symposium set to shape the future of world wine
• Vinexpo Bordeaux promises ‘completely redesigned’ show

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Creating LinkedIn Ads That Convert Like Crazy

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Farmworkers, owners debate labor rules
• A Farmer Goes in Search of a Successor

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Mountain Wines of Helmut Dolde
• The wine that tried to kill me
• Scientists working to develop lab-grown wine, spirits

WINE PEOPLE

• Meet Harvest Card’s Landon McPherson
• Meet Winegrowers of Dry Creek Valley’s Ann Petersen
• Meet Jackson Family Wines’ Viviann Stapp
• Women Running The Liquor World: Edition Seven
• Talking Aged Riesling and Unsweetened Iced Tea With Henrietta Red’s Allie Poindexter

WINE PLACES

• Chablis: An overview

WINE TOURISM

• High speed ‘Wine Train’ boosts tourism to Castilian vineyards

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY Wine Industry Association eyes opportunities

ACADEMIA

• NZ: New Head of EIT School of Viticulture and Wine

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Fingerprinting untargeted analysis as potential tool to classify wine grape biotypes based on their variety and sanitary condition
• Deadly Fungal Infection Raises Concerns about Fungicides Used in Agriculture
• Insights From 10 Renowned Winemakers And Winery Owners

EUROPE & THE UK

• The future of English sparkling wine
• DO Pla de Bages gets another bump
• Mediterranean Spain: Diversity and Consistency
• English wine one of the fastest growing industries in UK agricultural sector
• UK: The wine industry should learn from “extraordinary innovation” in beer and spirits
• Chapel Down creates England’s largest estate in Kent
• Hennessy Cognacs to outlaw weedkillers over the next decade
• Mallya given final extradition appeal in July

DOWN UNDER

• Emma Symington MW returns to Wine Australia
• OZ: Information forum for winegrape growers in Mildura
• OZ: Deer invasion wreaking havoc on prime wine country

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China’s Wine Egg Hatches

SOUTH AFRICA

• South African Wine Industry Invests in Black-owned Wine Businesses

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Members Of The World’s Biggest Rum Family Work To Preserve A Centuries-Old Competitor
• Cider Australia calls for changes to ‘farcical’ rules