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DAILY NEWS FETCH - June 17, 2015

CREATED BY WINE INDUSTRY INSIGHT  & MADE POSSIBLE BY OUR SPONSORS
Editor & Publisher, Lewis Perdue. Assistant Editor, Becca Yeamans-Irwin

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Wine Racket Leads to Charges in Canada
• Los Angeles County bans new vineyards due to drought
• California farmers illegally taking river water
• Economic Confidence Index, Gas Prices Linked
• TTB Compliance can be simpler. Here’s how. *Sponsored Link*

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Australia and China sign bumper free trade deal
• Australia/China Free Trade Agreement. Good for exports, less good for national sovereignty

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Sponsored by:

• Plan to take Lytton Pomos’ land near Windsor into trust getting first hearing
• An open letter to the Napa Valley supervisors on tourism
• Joseph Phelps Vineyards Re-Opens its Original Winery to Visitors Following Renovation
• Connect with new wine distributors at USA Trade Tasting. Exhibit now and Save $200. Offer ends 30 June. *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• New water cuts tighten screws on farmers
• Farm interests planning to push back on water rule they say goes too far
• Final WOTUS proposal needs complete rewrite
• Court Battles Loom Over California’s Senior Water Rights
• State Water Contractors Seek Action to Protect Stored Water Project Supplies from Unlawful Diversions
• The Colorado River is not a water buffet. So why the 'first come, first serve' policy?
• Rules to protect Russian River salmon opposed by Farm Bureau

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DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Pa. Senate panel approves bill on wine home delivery
• Are shipping charges taxable in Illinois?
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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Brands (STZ) Names David Klein as New CFO
• Diageo’s Australia director ‘resigns’
• Castle Brands Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2015 Results
• Constellation Brands invests $2bn in Mexico
• How To Overcome Top 10 Objections From Beverage Retailers *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Fine wine market grows 234% in 10 years
• Sotheby’s wine sales top $10m in NYC
• New report reveals increasing popularity of fine wine as wealth store
• Separating fake from fine wine

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

• Sex And Alcohol Make You Happier Than Having Kids And Religion
• What makes a ‘heavy drinker’?
• France in denial over alcohol abuse

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• Younger wine drinkers ready to try something new

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Why The 100-Point System of Rating Wine is Irrelevant
• “The 100-point system is irrelevant”? Umm, sorry, no it’s not
• The power of points
• Should Restaurant Wine Lists Feature Local Wines?
• A Sommelier By Any Other Name Would Smell The Same
• There’s A Boner-Jam of Sommeliers… And Nobody Can Pronounce The Word
• 7 things savvy wine drinkers should expect at a restaurant

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CURRENT WINE COUNTRY CLASSIFIEDS GRAPE ADS
The following grape ads can be found in Wine Country Classifieds as of June 17, 2015. For more ads please visit us at www.WinerySite.com
VARIETAL	APPELLATION	TONS	LOCATION	PRICE/TON	CONTACT
Zinfandel	El Dorado	6-8 tons	Placerville, CA	$1250/ton	steinervineyard@gmail.com
Cab Franc/Cab Sauv	Napa Valley	3 tons/ea	Napa, CA	Contact	lucia.hossfeld@gmail.com
Tempranillo	Amador County	2 tons	Plymouth, CA	$1400/ton	Mark@3DWRanch.com
Portuguese Varietals	Lodi	---	Alcampo, CA	Contact	contact@stjorgewinery.com
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Younger wine drinkers ready to try something new

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Source: Excerpted from the upcoming June 35, 36 Wine Industry Technology Symposium (WITS) presentation by Laurie Rains of Nielsen.

While creating this issue:

Becca liked this song the best: Devil's Whisper by Raury

Lew liked this song the best: Ex's & Oh's by Elle King 

TODAY'S FEATURED WINE

Lewis Perdue's Rating of The Prisoner Wine Company: Red Blend: Napa Valley - California: : 2012: United States

This faded beauty is the Blanche DuBois of wine and will have to depend upon the kindness of strangers to keep buying it.

Overly soft with weak tannins and squishy structure. Vague memories, badly recalled, of cherries and mocha. Totally not worth the $39.99 BevMo charges ... which is 1 cent less expensive than buying the current 2013 vintage.

This is the most recent over-the-hill, has-been I have bought at BevMo. I loved the 2011 Prisoner which is why I bought this one.

I love Orin Swift's wines, but this one is an old, flawed leftover being blown out at top dollar.

Yes, I am a sucker, but I have learned my lesson: NoMo BevMo!

At this price this prisoner should go to Guantanamo.

Priced at an almost-honest $14.99 it could get by in Martha Stewart's old cell at Camp Cupcake in Alderson, WV

 HEADS UP!

Lew is sick of wasting most of his wine dollars on stuff he pours down the drain.

Will Buy No Wine Before He's Tried 'Em

So, for now on, Lew is not going to buy anything he has not tasted first.

Lew doesn't get many tasting samples, so this new direction means that you will see an increase in the number of different wines he buys from a single winery.

You can click this link to check out Lewis Perdue’s misfit wine palate.

REVIEW POLICY:

The old review policy still holds -- 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.