NEWS FETCH – September 30, 2015

TOP NEWS

• Brown-Forman seeks to sell Southern Comfort, Chambord
• Plaintiffs Up Ante in Arsenic Case
• EPA revises 1992 Ag Worker Protection Standards
• California Drought And Greenhouse Gas Programs Get Nearly $10 Million
• U.S. Economic Confidence Index Level at -13
• Beaujolais winemakers protest low prices
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• TPP negotiations continue in Atlanta
• If you’re worried about TTIP, then you need to know about CETA

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Napa harvest approaches early end
• Long Island’s 2015 harvest is looking optimistic
• The Loire’s 200% Exceptional Vintage
• Weather report favors Pacific Northwest wine grape harvest
• #2015Loire – Chinon’s biggest players prefer to wait
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Restauranteur/vintner Pat Kuleto sells 602-acre Sage Canyon Ranch vineyard
• Constellation Brands, Employees Team Up to Donate $100K for Northern CA Wildfire Relief
• Grgich honored by Cal-China nonprofit
• A Search for Radiance Varner and Neely
• Truck spills 4 tons of wine grapes onto major Alexander Valley highway
• Efforts continue to help Valley Fire victims
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DROUGHT/WATER

• A huge water district defends a secret handout
• Defending the ‘Westlands’ water deal
• Water, 2015, California: The no-good, very bad year — now, ‘pray for rain’
• The future of desalination in Santa Barbara and California
• Former Delta Lead Scientists Summarize Challenges, Complexities in Vital Estuary
• Drought in the Delta: The view from within
• How Australia actually managed their drought
• Sustainable Groundwater Management Act FAQ
• Water Discovered on Mars; California Drought Jokes Flood In

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Status Update: DtC Wine Industry
• Arizona: Do you get wine shipped from out-of-state? That may be about to end.
• Direct to customer sales in Australia grow 19%
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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Bank says Southern Comfort a “drag” on Brown-Forman: Sale a good idea
• After 2014’s disasters, Treasury Wine struggles forward To 2013 despite American margins
• Sainsbury’s edges back into growth in second quarter

DISTRIBUTORS

• Southern Wine & Spirits Of America Announces On-Premise National Account Expansion
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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Different Approaches to Wine Collecting

ALCOHOL, HEALTH, AND THE FRENCH PARADOX

• Arsenic found in many U.S. red wines, but health risks depend on total diet
• Reality about red wine’s medical advantages

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• Wine volumes being stifled in travel retail

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How sweeter, softer champagnes are attracting younger drinkers
• Why the obsession with food and wine pairings?
• How to distinguish Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc and Riesling in blind tasting

MARKETING & SALES

• 10 ways to turn drinks advertising into engagement
• Mobile Ad Spending to Overtake Print in the UK
• Digitally Disrupting the Habitual Shopping Routine
• Listening To Your Customers: A Kind Of Different Intent Data
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TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Catena Institute of Wine and UC Davis Host “The Future of Wine Science,” A Joint Educational Conference

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Twitter Is Still Trying to Teach Advertisers How to Tweet
• Twitter will reportedly soon allow tweets longer than 140 characters
• Facebook: Fast-scrolling millennials consume ads 2.5 times faster
• Brands should put memes in their videos if they want millennials to pay attention

MEDIA MATTERS

• Variety versus Varietal

MATTERS OF TASTE

• On going back, and beginnings and endings
• More Mousseux Please – Searching for Sparkling Wines?
• Turning wine grapes into beer
• Table grapes find new fans with more flavorful varieties
• Filtering wine one way doesn’t mean it’s the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• 6 Female Sommeliers Talk Wine, Passion, and Disrupting a Male-Dominated Field
• Interview, Part 2: Diageo North America Scotch Director Brian Cox
• Mentors are hard to find, but John MacCready is a great one
• Murat Güner of Sevilen Wines in Izmir, Turkey
• Former class clown gets serious about wine

WINE PLACES

• Southern France’s ‘hidden Provence,’ the land of the cassoulet
• German connections – Ursula Schwarzenbach, Blackenbrook Vineyards

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Sales of Virginia wine hit new record
• Oregon’s Willamette Evolves But Stays True to Its Roots
• Extreme vineyard pays off for Walla Walla’s Tertulia Cellars
• BC ELECTION 2015: Q&A – What steps would you take to support the wine industry?

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Drones, they’ll change the way we live

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Sparkling wine producer Gusbourne reveals expected losses and aims for more investment to plant vineyards
• Ribera del Duero and Rueda combine for UK push
• Understanding the classes of Chianti

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Dean Carroll takes on CEO role with Brown Brothers
• OZ: Wine’s lesson from the mining industry

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Marketing in China: Understanding the Vitality of Ecommerce
• 48 Winemakers, 18 Nations | Unprecedented Wine Contest Underway in China

SOUTH AFRICA

• Stanford Wine Route Launched

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• How Many Grapes Are Inside Your Bottle Of Wine?

MARIJUANA

• South Dakota tribe to open nation’s 1st marijuana resort

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 70 new links including the following top headlines:

• Craft Brew Alliance Planning to Purchase Minority Stake in Cisco Brewers
• Dogfish Head Sells 15 Percent Stake to LNK Partners
• Collins introduces the CIDER Act to legislation
• Virginia wine and cider sales break records in 2015
• Craft boom continues as distillery numbers grow
• Winkle Inflation: The Saga Of Price Tracking Hot Bourbons

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