NEWS FETCH – September 29, 2014

TOP NEWS

• How Treasury Wine Can Rebuild Profits Without KKR’s Help
• Treasury Wine Estates’s weird way to sell a business
• Treasury Wine shares tank as KKR and TPG talks end
• Income Gap, Shrinking Middle Class Batter Restaurants
• Enforcing Your Wine Club Contract Could Be More Hassle Than It’s Worth
• Ningxia Aims to Become China’s Napa Valley
• Wine has nothing to fear but beer itself
• Expand Your US Distribution – Enter Your Brands In 2015 BTN USA Guide Now! *Sponsored Link*

HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Australia: Good vintage for Hunter Valley wines
• English winemakers hail ‘near perfect’ 2014
• Get Ready For Fall: Top DTC Wine Sales Strategy Tips *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa quake benefit concert rocks the house
• 9 Charts That Tell The Story Of The Modern California Wine Industry
• Make Your Tasting Room Sales Explode (Video) *Sponsored Link*

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Truett-Hurst posts annual loss
• Aldi announces record 65% jump in profits

DISTRIBUTORS

• Legal Analysis: Diageo and Major Brands Settle Franchise Law Dispute
• Wine in America: Law and Policy *Sponsored Link*

IMPORT/EXPORT

• Reprieve for Export Insurance Program

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Dry Riesling Maxes Out At Auction
• Wine auction site Grape Pip donates charitable proceeds to Benevolent
• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market *Sponsored Link*

HEALTH

• What the media didn’t tell you about the CDC alcohol death study
• The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Beverage Trade Network Creates New Australia Trade Tasting & Conference
• Trade Show & Event Marketing *Sponsored Link*

MARKETING & SALES

• The millennial is dead
• Wine in kegs is an idea barreling into more restaurants
• On the Nature of Being Sicilian in the Wine Business
• Home is where the wine is for Aussie drinkers
• Get Ready For Holiday Programming: 10 Lean Marketing Tactics To Get Your Going *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Mobile Affects Purchases Way Before the Store
• How to sell your brand to online retail channels like Vinomofo.com and Lot18.com *Sponsored Link*

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• How best-of-breed apps can topple the enterprise monopoly

MEDIA MATTERS

• When wine writers host public events
• Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• One Good Side Effect of China’s Anti-Corruption Drive: Better Wine
• From zero to Lafite, China misses its ‘gateway wine’
• New York, the World’s Greatest Wine City
• Children of a lesser Brett
• Age is a beautiful thing – Most especially in wine
• Portugal’s Douro Valley embodies history of port wine
• Paris’s most interesting wine shops (FT subscription required)
• Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Ammunition Wine
• The Art and Design of Contemporary Wine Labels*Sponsored Link*

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• We can now turn wine waste into biofuels
• Vines still available, order now!! **Sponsored Link*

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Emeril Lagasse: ‘I have nowhere to go, really — other than broke’
• To eat is (literally and figuratively) to live
• Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*

CRAFT BEER & SPIRITS

• How Craft Breweries and Distilleries Can Expand from On Site Sales to 3 Tier Distribution.
• The Craft Beer Revolution: How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World’s Favorite Drink *Sponsored Link*