NEWS FETCH – September 10, 2015

TOP NEWS

• State of the US Alcoholic Beverage Industry
• How Wine-Educated is the U.S. Market?
• Alibaba Lowers Its Sales Estimate As Chinese Consumers Become Reluctant To Spend
• A monster El Niño is likely, but there are ‘no guarantees’
• Washington Wine Industry’s Economic Impact Growing
• Reconciling differences in 2 Washington wine economic impact studies
• TTB Compliance can be simpler. Here’s how. *Sponsored Link*

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Chile’s wine export to China in post-tariff-free era
• Adelaide agricultural park to supply China

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Sonoma County vintners counting on quality, not quantity in this year’s harvest
• Fresno County grower anticipates a respectable crop size as harvest begins early
• Central Coast grower expects yields to take a hit from drawn-out bloom
• Napa Harvest Report: Cabernet harvest begins
• Arrival of cool Oregon nights should help wine quality
• 2015 Champagne Harvest Excellent: Giraud

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• New outbreaks on North Coast heighten need for continued vigilance in controlling Pierce’s disease
• California Diocese Sells Premium Wine Made from Cemetery-Grown Grapes
• Lagunitas, Heineken pact demands close cooperation
• Lagunitas puts local beer on the world’s table
• That Lagunitas-Heineken deal
• CA table olive growers fret as production costs rise
• USA Trade Tasting Is Now 95% Sold Out. Only Few Spots Left. Book Now! *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Prior appropriation and water allocation in the West
• For a change in Delta perspective, move a few feet
• With El Niño threatening to turn California’s drought into drenching winter, worries mount
• Tribal elder brings water history to life for students
• Big ruckus over little streams: A new EPA rule to regulate US waterways has provoked a pile of lawsuits

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Morrisons agrees £25m deal to offload convenience stores
• Morrisons follows c-store disposal by revealing falling profits and store closures
• Morrisons to focus on personalised in-store local marketing to help fuel turnaround
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FINANCE, M&A

• Vinous Acquires Wine Zine Loam Baby; Author R.H. Drexel Joins Vinous
• OZ: Howcroft Estate Vineyard set to catch eyes of investors, wine industry
• Gerard Depardieu looks to sell French chateaux

DISTRIBUTORS

• What US Importers Are Looking For & How To Keep Them Interested
• Wineries and Wine Importers: Here are some basic support programs and incentives to that can be used to drive your wine brand in distribution channels*Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• New releases: Italy and the New World
• In focus: 2004 Super Tuscans
• How Graham Lyons built one of the biggest private collections

ALCOHOL, HEALTH, AND THE FRENCH PARADOX

• Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol: The Who and the Why in Spanish Adults
• The Weird Way Alcohol Makes You Fat
• The secret to a 37-year-old NFL player’s success? Drinking red wine
• Women in heavy-drinking S.Korea fuel demand for lighter booze

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Two Important Illinois Announcements

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Alcohol & How Wine-Educated is the U.S. Market? Wrong Questions!
• 5 Expert Strategies For Buying Wine

MARKETING & SALES

• From Aristotle to AI: the evolution of storytelling
• Brewdog accused of mocking homeless and trans women in ad
• How to Manage Cash Flow to Expand your Winery, Distillery or Brewery’s Distribution. *Sponsored Link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Wine in a can? Gallo testing alternative packaging
• Predictions for the future of cannabis drink packaging

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWein Expands Collaboration with WSET
• USA Trade Tasting Exhibitor Tables 95% Booked Out

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• 4 Strategic Tips for Building a Lasting Social Campaign in China
• Is Email Still a Winner for Retail?
• Checking in on Google’s Mobilegeddon
• Instagram ads are about to get a whole lot more annoying

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Get past the partisan political spew with these 5 actual facts about undocumented immigrants

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Oak ageing holds key to wine sweetness
• Alcohol… Is the Pendulum Swinging?
• How Does Vine Age Affect Wine?
• Wine drinkers vs. beer drinkers
• What’s Old Is New Again
• Wine and Opera
• How to Tell if Wine Has Gone Bad
• English Sparkling Wine Is the New Champagne
• An Italian wine primer: Ferraro’s helps guide the way through these surging varieties
• Filtering wine one way doesn’t mean it’s the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• The next great Bordeaux wine scientist
• OLN’s Hemming named among new MWs
• Yangarra Estate winemaker Peter Fraser is James Halliday’s pick of the bunch
• David Keck of Houston’s Camerata at Paulie’s (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• A Toast to the Champagne Houses of France
• Top 10 intriguing things about Turkey and its wines

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Dunham Cellars, One Year Later
• Wine and retailers: Are Idaho officials enforcing the rules?
• NC: Veteran winemaker gets help from Sunday school class

EUROPE & THE UK

• Exchange rates cause decline in UK’s food and drink exports
• UK: Micropubs on the rise as proportion of outlets serving real ale hits 70%

DOWN UNDER

• Is WET squashing Australia’s wine industry?
• Four new directors join AGWA
• ABS injects excitement into Oz offer

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Singapore gets its first Master of Wine

LATIN AMERICA

• Chile adapts strategy to global change

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

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