NEWS FETCH – March 24, 2014

TOP NEWS

• Champagne exports driving demand as France lags
• Special Report On Wine closures
• Wine & Climate Change: Ashenfelter & Storchmann
• Drying up the delta: 19th century policies underlie today’s crises

• Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s Your Checklist [Sponsored Link]

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• American Canyon Trying to Capitalize on the Napa Valley
• Napa County clears Sinegal Estate to ramp up wine production
• California’s Coolest New Pinot Noir Appellation
• How Calif water crisis is worse for almonds
• San Diego: J. Brix “Vins de Garage”
• Calif Assn of Winegrape Growers In Search For Excellence
• In California, chefs fight for bare-hand contact
• Growers Produce Record 2013 Calif Table Grape Crop

• Introduction to Water in California [Sponsored Link]

DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• PA: New liquor privatization push emphasizes convenience
• What’s The Deal with Wine Shipping Laws?
• Should tiers be shed?

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine looks to double size of travel retail

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Pavie and Angélus prices settle

• Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization [Sponsored Link]

MARKETING & SALES

• Are Standing Tasting Bars Better than Seated?
• How Mobile Marketing Can Benefit Your Business
• The Aldi wine experience
• How to handle wine shipping delays

• Understand the Retailer, their Market and their Buyers [Sponsored Link]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How to Get Five Million Users to See Your Brand on Youtube For Free
• You Can Buy Wine With Bitcoin

• How to use Twitter for your Wine Business and Marketing [Sponsored Link]

MEDIA MATTERS

• More On Parker’s Mega Snit Fit
• Jay McInerney Leaves WSJ For Wife’s Magazine

• Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment [Sponsored Link]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Yes, Women Can Make Great Wine
• The Oz Clarke Interview
• Tegan Passalacqua makes his own mark
• Finding Great Wine In The Desert
• From the Sayings of Chairman Harry
• In Napa Valley, the past is prelude to the future

• The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That [Sponsored Link]

EUROPE & THE UK

• Priorat wines: a Catalan love story
• West Coast Wineries Take on Europe
• Exposing supermarket illusory price promotions
• Cruising the Wine Islands Of the Southwest of France
• Sherry producers shake off years of surplus
• The Swiss make wine? Who knew?
• High numbers of trade visitors stretch Burgundy to its limits

• Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer’s Tour of France [Sponsored Link]

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Advantages and disadvantages of Argentine wines in China

• How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region [Sponsored Link]

LATIN AMERICA

• Exciting Times in Chile: Redefining Their Terroir & Wines

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The 100 point rating scale for wine: 5 things you need to know (video)
• Resuming the Hunt for La Cucina Italiana
• My “other” Italy ~ sans tourists, sans checklist
• Start Your Own Winery With WinePod Mini
• What You’re Tasting in Wine ~ 10 Rules

• The Control of Nature [Sponsored Link]

OLIVE OIL

• Livermore’s Olivina presses on for olive oil
• Follow Napa’s olive oil trail in California