NEWS FETCH – October 7, 2015

TOP NEWS

• Heineken Buys Brewing Stakes From Diageo for $781 Million
• Customers Sue California Retailer for Failure to Deliver Wines
• Wine Institute Supports Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement
• Sonoma County vineyard owners lauded for water conservation
• Tesco in ‘secret talks’ with fraud office over accounting black hole
• New Cold-Climate Grapes Named
• The Business of Wine. Moving beyond Excel. *Sponsored Link*

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Trade Deal Opens Doors for Wine Industry
• Ag has mixed opinion on Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Australian winemakers welcome Trans-Pacific Partnership opportunities
• Three Cheers for NZ Wine Exports in TPP Agreement
• Australian wine export growth tipped under TTP deal
• Three million people unite to derail TTIP

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Europe’s 2015 wine harvest: On the verge of greatness?
• Another Napa harvest in the books
• Napa: Growers love 2015 crop quality, wish there was more
• CO: Grand Valley Wine Grape Harvest One of the Best in Recent Years
• Wine from Northern Michigan vineyards may be scarce in next few years

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa supervisors favor higher minimum wage
• San Diego County Vintners Association Chooses Clearpoint Agency to Manage PR & Digital Marketing
• Colorful lug labels tell the history of Lodi’s grape packing industry
• Valley fire 100 percent contained, but mop-up work still to be done
• Clos Du Val Receives Adopt-A-School Partnership of the Year
• Innovative Buyer-Supplier Match Making Program to Launch at USA Trade Tasting *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• California water wars heat up over $15B tunnel plan
• Central Valley Project falls to 24 percent of capacity
• Delta Water Tunnels Spark Protests
• Delta Water Tunnel Project Revised Again, But Concerns Linger
• Rep. McNerney Blasts “WaterFix” Tunnels Plan that would Devastate the Delta Region
• Private poll shows strong statewide support for Delta tunnels
• Water conservation for the birds
• In Bel-Air, someone is using 1,300 gallons of water — per hour

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine Estates outlines fresh cost cuts
• Tesco boss claims ‘sustained improvement’ but first-half profits fall by 54%
• Five things we’ve learned from Tesco’s numbers
• Tesco simplifies supplier payment terms in wake of scandal
• Is Tesco’s brand finally on the road to recovery?
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FINANCE, M&A

• Oak Bottle Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Raise Funds
• 8 Key Points On Pricing Your Wine, Beer & Spirits for Sustainable Growth *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Left Bank 200 leads Bordeaux 500’s gains
• Vincast, the Wine Valuation Platform, Delivers On-Demand Data to Wine Investors

ALCOHOL, HEALTH, AND THE FRENCH PARADOX

• Alcohol and the risk of developing diabetes
• Pregnant women ‘should not touch a drop of alcohol’
• This 13-year-old came up with a brilliant way to stop people from driving drunk or high

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• Thanks to the growth in craft beer, most of America lives within 10 miles of a brewery. This crazy map shows you where they are.

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• 10 wine grape varieties you’ve probably never heard of, but should try

MARKETING & SALES

• How to Maintain Your Wine Club Members
• The importance of a multichannel customer service approach
• OND: Step 1 – Get Your Winery Ready.
• The Focus of Public Relations
• Ad-Blockers May Actually Cure Publishers’ Ad Woes
• Strongbow ad banned for suggesting alcohol is as important as personal relationships
• How to Manage Cash Flow to Expand your Winery, Distillery or Brewery’s Distribution. *Sponsored Link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Screwcap vs cork
• How wine labels shifted from Old World class to social media-worthy sass

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• The True Value of Social Listening
• Newer Social Ad Venues Intrigue Marketers
• The ultimate Burgundy app

PAYMENTS

• Verizon Will Support Samsung Pay in a ‘Future Software Update’

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Blackheath Beverage Group Expands Into Wine & Spirit Brand Development

MEDIA MATTERS

• After aging, ‘The Wine Bible’ yields robust 2nd edition
• A Backseat Reader’s Guide to the Oxford Companion to Wine

MATTERS OF TASTE

• What makes a great vintage?
• The World’s Largest Category of Fine Wines?
• Weather and Wine: Come Hail or High Water
• Technical Information about Pét-Nats
• Should You Ever Decant White Wine?
• Two Brothers Intent on Making Prosecco Go Head to Head With Champagne
• Temperature affects wine flavor, quality
• Filtering wine one way doesn’t mean it’s the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• Chris Sargeant of Australia
• A Xhosa man in the wine industry
• Stephane Defraine of Chateau de Fontenille, Bordeaux
• Michael Glover: Wine philosopher back on home soil

WINE PLACES

• 8 overrated wine countries around the world — and where to go instead
• Pushing the Horticultural Envelope at Newman’s Forbidden Fruit Farms

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OR: Ghost Hill Cellars names Eric Hamacher as head winemaker

ACADEMIA

• Arizona wine college brings grapevine to classroom

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Federal pesticide changes mirror California rules
• The State Of Agtech
• ePour Technologies Launches Its Patented Wine by the Glass System

EUROPE & THE UK

• Conviviality completes Matthew Clark acquisition and confirms change of name
• Tax hike on humble Greek drink threatens town’s future
• Torres revives ‘ancestral’ varieties

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 60 new links including the following top headlines:

• SABMiller Said to Have Rejected Informal Offer From AB InBev
• AB InBev Sweetens SABMiller Proposal to $104 Billion
• Heineken Buys Brewing Stakes From Diageo for $781 Million
• Discus welcomes TPP trade agreement
• License Renewals: What Brewery Owners Need to Know
• The term ‘craft beer’ might be obsolete soon
• Constellation Brands unveils first craft beer

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