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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine's Penfolds brand hit by China discounting

DISTRIBUTORS

• Cape Classics Makes Distribution Changes In Florida
• USA Trade Tasting Partners With New York International Wine Competition To Give Early Bird Exhibitors Added Benefits. *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• A New Model Predicts Wine Futures Prices With High Accuracy: Lessons from Bordeaux En Primeur for Small Boutique Wineries in the US
• Frugality drive means French wine out of fashion in China
• Liv-ex Fine Wine 1000 holds steady in March
• Latour leads decline in March
• Pomerol's promise
• Roumier Leads Sotheby’s Burgundy Auction With Richebourg

ALCOHOL, HEALTH, AND THE FRENCH PARADOX Click the link above for more news, articles and archives.

• Calories will soon appear on wine lists at chain restaurants
• How Many Calories Are in a Glass of Wine?
• Those who abstain from alcohol likely to die earlier than drinkers
• Study shows that females are more sensitive to external factors that promote alcohol use
• Drinking coffee may neutralize the effect of wine in causing liver cancer

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• AVAs on Wine Labels: Continued

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• Why is Beer Losing Ground to Wine and Spirits?
• Over-Represented Wine Drinkers: Millennials, Greatest Generation
• How to Optimize your Bottle Price and Increase Sales *Sponsored Link*

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• The most popular restaurant wines

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine, Data, And How Not To Leave Money On The Table
• 5 Suggestions on Building your Restaurant Wine Lists for Profits *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Advice to Wineries, re: Yelp and Trip Advisor
• Drinks industry is well placed to benefit from new Google and Twitter deal
• 9 Things to Consider Before Starting a Blog
• Finding the Real Value in Social Media

PAYMENTS

• This is how you purchase digital currencies

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Over-Represented Wine Drinkers:
Millennials, Greatest Generation

Source: Wine Market Council

While creating this issue:

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TODAY'S FEATURED WINE

Lewis Perdue's Rating of Matanzas Creek Winery: Sauvignon Blanc: Sonoma County-California: : 2012: United States

When passion and authenticity walk out the door with the owners of a small boutique winery after an acquisition by a huge one, excellence inevitably follows.

The acquired wine becomes just another SKU to be managed by someone who cares more about spreadsheets than making wine.

Matanzas Creek has suffered from that more than most.

This 2013 Sauvignon Blanc was sour, thin, feeble on fruit with a bottled water mouthfeel and the substance of a politician's speech.

And the sting of being over-taxed: $22. Really?

And to show just how out of touch the acquiring winery can be, this is the prize-winning fiction on the winery web site: From Matanzas Creek web site: "Expressive and bursting with aromas of white grapefruit, pumelo, nectarine and lemon thyme, hints of fresh oregano and yellow guava finish out the profile. Crisp in texture with bright acidity, the Sonoma County Sauvignon Blanc utilizes our entire breadth of winemaking techniques to create this beautiful wine."

Really?

Hello Kitty is better connected to reality than that.

 REVIEW POLICY:

For winery tasting samples, gifts from friends or family or samplings at a party or event, review it truthfully, but only if I like it. If I have paid my own very-hard-earned money on a bottle, the gloves are off and it gets what it deserves ... whether perfect or puerile.

This NewsFetch was hand-crafted for you by Editor/Publisher Lewis Perdue and Assistant Editor, Becca Yeamans-Irwin. Visit Becca's website at The Academic Wino.