NEWS FETCH – September 17, 2015

TOP NEWS

• Massive Chilean earthquake hits wine regions
• Wildfires Continue to Threaten California Wine Regions
• Winemakers Figure out Work-arounds with Butte Fire Conditions
• New Lifetime High Reached By Constellation Brands (STZ)
• Drought Costing California $1.84 Billion This Year
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GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Compressed Crush in Central Coast
• China: Yanqing County grape bumper year cause price plump
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Three of 18 wineries have winery audit violations
• Napa begins scrutiny of out-of-city water trucking
• Woodbridge International Closes Sale of Napa Valley Wine Train
• Will the Expanding Wine Industry Impact California Communities, Environments?
• USA Trade Tasting Is Now 95% Sold Out. Only Few Spots Left. Book Now! *Sponsored Link*

CA BURNING

• Third death reported in California wildfires as rain gives crews break
• PG&E power line may have sparked deadly Sierra Foothills blaze
• Lake County vintners detail Valley fire damage
• Continuing Valley Fire coverage: “We lost everything,” say Shed Horn Cellars owners
• UPDATED: #ValleyFire: How to help

DROUGHT/WATER

• Dry farming and white gold
• Fire, flood and drought: In Calif., ‘El Nino is a cruel system’
• El Nino DNA seen in Southern California storm as Northern California continues to burn
• Scientists release report on groundwater
• The last time California was this dry, people thought the sun revolved around the earth
• DWR Statement Regarding Delta Independent Science Board Comments on RDEIR/SDEIS
• Managing California’s Groundwater for Drought, Clean Water, Food Security, and Ecosystems

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• The 3 Precautions to Take When Shipping Wine
• How User Choices Can Boost Your Wine Club Membership & Loyalty. Click For A Free Best Practices Webinar *Sponsored Link*

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• SABMiller May Cost Budweiser Maker More Than $100 Billion
• ABI Bids For SABMiller In Beer Megadeal, But Regulatory Hurdles Loom In U.S., China
• United Airlines brought back free wine and beer because it had to
• Burger King Introduces ‘Whopper Wine,’ Aged in Flame-Grilled Barrels

FINANCE, M&A

• Badet Clément buys Languedoc domaine
• Matthew Clark’s chief executive ‘thrilled’ over Conviviality’s £200m takeover
• How Brazilian bankers started a global wave of beer deals
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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Sotheby’s Sells $1.6 Million Wine in Its First London White Glove Sale

ALCOHOL, HEALTH, AND THE FRENCH PARADOX

• Alcohol consumers in India face higher health risk, mortality

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Snail’s pace Australian justice leaves Champagne Jayne beached
• Origins of French Wine Law
• Oklahoma Moves Closer to Strong Beer, Wine at C-stores

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• Wine’s compound annual growth rate tops all Alc Beverages – near and long-term
• New bw166 Total Beverage Alcohol Annual Review Released

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Buy Your Beer & Wine And Drink It In-Store
• On Professional tasting
• Beverage directors weigh in on new technology

MARKETING & SALES

• Clarity key to developing brand loyalty
• What Booze Brands Can Learn From Donald Trump
• How to Manage Cash Flow to Expand your Winery, Distillery or Brewery’s Distribution. *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• USA Trade Tasting Exhibitor Tables 95% Booked Out

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• When Mobile Websites Suck
• How to establish a Pinterest presence for your winery
• Facebook is finally giving advertisers 2 things they’ve been asking after for ages
• Facebook Is About to Take the Training Wheels off Facebook at Work
• 5 tricks for translating email tidiness into real life organisation

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Getting Paid and Managing Risk: Top Three Legal Tips.

MEDIA MATTERS

• The tyranny of wine samples

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Here’s what wine you should be drinking, according to how you take your coffee
• How to make your own barrel of fine wine
• On Finding Great Oregon Pinot Noir
• On Taco Bell selling wine
• Big beer may get bigger–and more irrelevant
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WINE PEOPLE

• Florence Cathiard, wine business dynamo
• At Home With Chris Mazepink
• Chad Carey of Hot Joy (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Pre-Prohibition Texas Wine
• 13 Places In Spain Every Wine Lover Needs To Put On Their Bucket List

WINE EDUCATION

• WSET and CMS publish sommelier ‘career map’

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Grape growers find industry blooming in North Carolina
• A to Z Wineworks becomes one of Oregon wine’s biggest sellers
• Pennsylvania hospital ends pursuit of confiscated wine
• Christophe’s Folly: The hill in Walla Walla reminded Cayuse’s Christophe Baron of Hermitage, so he planted Syrah
• KY: Graves County Voters Approve Fancy Farm Wine Sales
• WA: Woodinville Wine Country to launch wine auction during harvest

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Wine Technology of the Future: The Device For Accelerated Aging of Wine

EUROPE & THE UK

• Who Will Decide the Future of Beaujolais?
• Redefining Rioja terroir
• The Crazy Gamble of the World’s Greatest Bubblies

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Hunter has top year in domestic and international tourism
• Mixing Grape and Grain in Marlborough
• NZ: New tools to measure sustainability

LATIN AMERICA

• Carolina Wine Brands Bolsters Chile’s Fine Wine Image With Upscale Moves
• Caliterra winemaker tips Malbec to do big things in Chile

SOUTH AFRICA

• SA: Flagstone celebrates ‘Cinderella’ Chenin

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Yes, There’s A Wine Powered Car (And Yes, It Belongs To A Prince)

MARIJUANA

• Colorado Is Now Collecting More Tax Revenue From Marijuana Than From Alcohol

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 72 new links including extended coverage of the ABInBev/SABMiller possible merger and the following top headlines:

• Brewers Association responds to news of Anheuser Busch-InBev’s interest in buying SABMiller
• Impact on Craft Brewers if Global Giants Merge
• Texas craft brewer mounts legal challenge to state’s beer law
• Bathtub booze and knock-off whisky: inside China’s fake alcohol industry
• Is the craft beer explosion creating a market bubble?

Get all today’s news at Craft Beverage Insights here.