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TOP NEWS
- Restaurants see best sales trends in two years
- Kick-back alleged in NZ wine company prior to Foley purchase
- 2015 Grape Purchases and 2014 Yields
- Influential Costco executive discusses wine business
- Expand Your US Distribution – Enter Your Brands In 2015 BTN USA Guide Now! *Sponsored Link*
HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY
- Northwest wine industry keeps eye on Typhoon Vongfong
- Napa Valley Grapegrowers Deliver High Quality Harvest
- Short Wine Grape Crop in the East
- Champagne 2014: Organic growers survive tense summer
- Dodging The Bullets
- 2014 Loire vintage – round up of the last few days (Part 1)
- Harvest in the Napa Valley [WITH SLIDESHOW]
- Make sure to order harvest bins while the supply lasts *Sponsored Link*
CALIFORNIA BRIEFS
- Sonoma County Winery, creamery plans stir debate
- Will Breaking Up Be Good for Paso Robles?
- Another Idiotic California Law Screws Wineries
- Make Your Tasting Room Sales Explode (Video) *Sponsored Link*
DROUGHT/WATER
- California’s drought: A result of natural hydrologic variability, climate change, or both?
- Sustainability: A History *Sponsored Link*
DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION
- B.C. takes next step in allowing grocery stores to sell liquor
- TN: Knox area voters to weigh wine in grocery stores
- DTC Wine Sales Checklist: Dial In Your Strategy *Sponsored Link*
PUBLIC COMPANIES
- Constellation, Diageo Loom Large On Impact’s “Blue Chip Brands” List
- Tesco probe may aid supplier relations
- Champagne Canard-Duchêne announces half-year results
FINANCE, M&A
- Vintners Global Resource Becoming Part Of M.A. Silva USA
- Robot bartender maker Monsieur takes in $2 million
- Dave & Buster’s raises $94.1M in IPO
- A Guide to Investment, Innovation and Business Opportunities in the Water Sector *Sponsored Link*
INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS
- Fake goods market worth $700 billion
- En Primeur, or the Ancient Roots of Wine Futures
- The future of the primeurs system
- Liv-ex: Talking trade, 3rd-9th October
- TFWA Cannes announces Anti-Counterfeit workshop
- Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market *Sponsored Link*
MARKETING & SALES
- Wine marketing is sorely in need of innovation
- Is Blogging an Outdated Content Marketing Tactic?
- Retailers back innovative new wine app
- 38% of online shoppers will abandon a purchase if they have to register for an account first
- The naked truth about wine: being nice pays off
- Sex, Shopping, Wine… and Aldi
- What happens to our brains when we can buy anything the moment we see it
- Is metaphor in advertising dead? What the Red Bull payout means for brands and their slogans
- How To Pitch Your Brand In National Restaurant Chains *Sponsored Link*
TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES
- Record entries in new-look wine show
- Wine show season: It seems not all wine shows would earn a gold medal
- Trade Show & Event Marketing *Sponsored Link*
SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH
- Why social media strategy matters at LA’s grooviest wine shop
- Having trouble “getting” social media? Welcome to SMOG!
- Brands tell customers to talk to the robot
- Yelp Is Continuously Battling Extortion Claims
- Launching New Wine Brand Without A Winery? *Sponsored Link*
IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY
- Vinfolio Wants Wine Provenance In the Bitcoin Block Chain
- Twitter to unveil details of money transfer service with French bank
- Documenting Content Marketing Delivers ROI Tracking Success for B2B Marketers
- 11 Simple Changes That Would Improve This Email: Gentle Critique
- With Apple Pay, adding a credit card is as easy as taking a picture (report)
- Apple Pay could launch next Saturday, according to leaked Walgreens memo
MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT
- Your business needs multiple approaches to security: here’s why
- Wine Business Case Studies:: Thirteen Cases from the Real World of Wine Business Management *Sponsored Link*
MEDIA MATTERS
- American Wine Story (A Three Crows Productions Film)
- Journalism startup Latterly doesn’t care about page views one bit
- It was great having you, magazines. Let’s just say goodbye now
- Journalism’s biggest competitors are things that don’t even look like journalis
- Wine Marketing & Sales, 2nd Edition *Sponsored Link*
MATTERS OF TASTE
- Making a case for great Northwest Merlot
- Tannat and Uruguay: An Unlikely Duo
- A Pinot with a View—of Marcassin
- A Manhattan Wine Story
- Uncorked: Yvonne Cheung
- Sherry makes a comeback after a drought of interest
- Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest Wine *Sponsored Link*
REGIONAL WINE NEWS
- Northwest Wine Round-up October 1st to 7th 2014
- Virginia – A Progress Report
- Beyond Jefferson’s Vines: The Evolution of Quality Wine in Virginia *Sponsored Link*
PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS
- Better oxygen barriers help wine embrace opportunities for single serve
- The Art and Design of Contemporary Wine Labels*Sponsored Link*
ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY
AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS
- Introducing Dan Ostrowski
- Harvesting innovation
- Vines still available, order now!! **Sponsored Link*
EUROPE & THE UK
- Number of English wine producers hits 20-year high
- UK Sparkling wine sales up 15% in last year
- Summer drinkers opt for ale and spirits as lager and cider sales dip
- Middle-class drinkers drive English wine ‘renaissance’
- UK wine industry sees dramatic rise
- Don Melchor holds parcel tasting in HK
- Benefits of UK village pubs tallied
- Eurostar sets Champagne world record
- Crown Cellars boosts sales team as wine revenues grow 19% in past year
DOWN UNDER
- Supermarket giant dumps exclusive liquor unit
- Predicting the last brand standing in the supermarket price wars
- Bar set low for a ‘do no harm’ China-Australia FTA
- Penfolds-backed Bin 38 opens in Singapore
- Bold plan to get Australian labels online in China
- Wine industry ‘needs methadone for WET’, says producer
- Grapegrowers surveyed to underpin action on Emergency Services Levy
- Wines of the Southern Hemisphere: The Complete Guide *Sponsored Link*
ASIA & PACIFIC RIM
- Jasper Morris heads to Ningxia
- Thirst for Wine – Inside China’s Wine Industry: The Success Factors of Marketing Wine in China *Sponsored Link*
SOUTH AMERICA
NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE
- 8 Unique Vintage Wine Accessories
- All Men Must Drink
- Everyone’s doing it: Modern winemaking from Albuquerque to Zupa
- How To Fly With Wine Like A Pro
- Wine Talk: Scientist meets artist
- 10 Tips for Attending a Wine Tasting
- Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees *Sponsored Link*
OLIVE OIL
- California’s Olive Oil Time Warp
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil Wholesale Prices in Europe in October
- BioFach 2015 – World’s leading Trade Fair for Organic Food
- The IOC expects a decrease of 50% in the production of olive oil in Spain
- Chinese move toward to top of the global olive oil market
- Olive Oil: From Tree to Table *Sponsored Link*
CRAFT BEER, CIDER & SPIRITS
- Legal Marijuana Could Give a Buzz to Beer, Analyst Says
- Henry Westons launches bag-in-box mulled cider
- The Craft Beer Revolution: How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World’s Favorite Drink *Sponsored Link*
- An Enthusiast’s Guide to the Artisan Distilling of Potent Potables *Sponsored Link*