NEWS FETCH – October 16, 2015

TOP NEWS

• Aussie wine exports climb to best since 2007 on $A drop
• Is Treasury About To Sell Some Assets to Accolade?
• Domestic Sales and Winery Jobs Grow
• De Blasio Plan to Dump Trash in NY Wine Country Irks Residents
• El Niño rains forecast to reach far into Northern California, where they’re most needed
• Voluntary Recall Of Certain Martinelli’s Sparkling Beverages Due To Glass Fragments
• The Business of Wine. Moving beyond Excel. *Sponsored Link*

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• EU agri-food industries draw ‘red lines’ in TTIP battle

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• 2015 California Winegrape Harvest: Early, Light and Exceptional Quality
• Harvest draws to an early end in Sonoma County
• Champagne’s 2015 vintage almost ‘too good’

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Wine Creek Hires Sam Tesconi as Sales & Marketing Associate
• $25K Charles Krug Winery Scholarship Fund for SSU Wine EMBA
• Innovative Buyer-Supplier Match Making Program to Launch at USA Trade Tasting *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Lawmaker looks at proposal to ship water from Alaska to parched California
• Water transfers and the Delta Plan, part 4: The buyers and sellers’ perspective
• California’s drought wouldn’t be so bad if the rest of you would share some water

EL NIÑO

• October 2015 El Niño update
• Very wet winter ahead for California, thanks to El Niño
• Even if El Niño arrives, we must continue to conserve water

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Wine At Starbucks: The Secrets Behind Their Selection
• How User Choices Can Boost Your Wine Club Membership & Loyalty. Click For A Free Best Practices Webinar *Sponsored Link*

FINANCE, M&A

• Oregon Vineyards Draw Out-of-State Buyers
• 8 Key Points On Pricing Your Wine, Beer & Spirits for Sustainable Growth *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bond-style tech to protect wine industry
• New York Wine Auctions Make Splashy Return With Château Margaux Cellar Sale
• Hospices de Beaune 2015: Highlander actor to host biggest auction since 2011

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• New Rules for the Return of Wine to Bonded Wine Premises
• Get Up to Date on Federal Trade Commission Guidelines

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Wine Insiders wine club, and why more people don’t drink wine
• Harnessing the power of a wines-by-the-glass list
• Is there any point to wine points?

MARKETING & SALES

• We need world-class customer service for wine
• Will eliminating tipping crimp wine sales?
• Amending Your Marketing Strategy to More Effectively Reach a Changing America
• Can’t Miss Mobile Marketing Best Practices
• How to Manage Cash Flow to Expand your Winery, Distillery or Brewery’s Distribution. *Sponsored Link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Consumer trends affect the type of packaging and material used for beverage products

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• 4 Things Businesses Need to Know But Often Don’t About Facebook Advertising
• Twitter launches new feature to help advertisers better target their audience
• Twitter And Facebook Are Turning Publishers Into Ghost Writers
• How to choose the right social channel for your business

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Does vintage really matter?
• Filtering wine one way doesn’t mean it’s the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• Q&A: The Gardinier Brothers, Château Phélan Ségur
• Honoring Walter Schug
• Remembering Walter Schug

WINE PLACES

• Seeking wine out of the way? – try Fair Play in Nevada
• Turning tobacco fields into vineyards in Maryland
• Old Rioja

WINE EDUCATION

• The challenges of becoming a master of wine

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY: Vineyard names ‘garbage’ wine after de Blasio in protest of trash plan

EUROPE & THE UK

• Merlot Faces the Heat as Bordeaux Seeks Climate-Proof Vineyards
• UK: The alcohol industry is not meeting its ‘Responsibility Deal’ labeling pledges
• Morrisons spends £10m on remerchandising BWS

DOWN UNDER

• Is Australia winning the China wine war?
• Queensland Farmers Federation elects Darling Downs’ Stuart Armitage as new president
• NZ sparkling wine needs ‘long-term vision’
• OZ: Pulford Pops The Cork On New Wine Committee

SOUTH AFRICA

• The New Face of South African Wines
• South Africa: Regulations give life to new wines

OLIVE OIL

• California Farmers Remain Unfamiliar with New Olive Oil Commission
• California’s Bumper Crop Might Not Yield the Oil Some Predicted
• Italian olive oil bounces back after one of the worst years in history

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 53 new links including the following top headlines:

• The Golden Age of Craft Beer Means Big Money, and Bigger Challenges
• A Flat Year for Beer Sales
• Will Big Beer merger edge out California craft breweries?
• NY: Post-summit, Cuomo announces wine, beer changes
• Notice Of Voluntary Recall Of Certain Martinelli’s 8.4 oz. Sparkling Beverages Due To Potential For Glass Fragments
• Heineken completes acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in leading U.S. craft brewer Lagunitas

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