NEWS FETCH – October 20, 2015

TOP NEWS

• Online Wine Sales on the Rise: Rabobank
• WineDirect sells more assets, this time to UXC Eclipse
• Champagne Jayne wins legal battle against CIVC
• Grape Research Gets Big Grant
• Beaujolais head steps down over ‘unacceptable pressure’
• The Business of Wine. Moving beyond Excel. *Sponsored Link*

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Wine Harvest 2015: Sonoma Vintners Are Optimistic After an Early Harvest
• Harvest 2015: Oregon’s Wet Years Are Not Created Equal
• NY Harvest 2015: Wrap Up

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Future Learning Center for Wine Business Gains More Support
• How To Rehabilitate An Historic Vineyard, Sonoma-Style
• Innovative Buyer-Supplier Match Making Program to Launch at USA Trade Tasting *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Don’t count on El Nino for snowpack
• How User Choices Can Boost Your Wine Club Membership & Loyalty. Click For A Free Best Practices Webinar *Sponsored Link*

FINANCE, M&A

• Maxima Group Inc. Acquires City Vines, LLC dba Vinium Wines
• 8 Key Points On Pricing Your Wine, Beer & Spirits for Sustainable Growth *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• ‘Exceptionally rare Burgundy’ headlines Acker auction
• Rare Champagne to lead Wally’s sale
• Should You Invest in Fine Wine Indices or the S&P 500? (video)

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Assembly Bill 780 & 776 – Two Changes in Tied House Rules on Advertising and Communicating Through Social Media

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• US Wine, Almond Exports Can Predict China Economic Ups & Downs

MARKETING & SALES

• Top Tools for Wine Email Marketing
• 4 Elements of Brand Stories That Inspire Customer Loyalty
• 5 Marketing Strategies That Don’t Involve Social Media
• What Messaging Themes Speak Loudest To Consumers?
• How to Manage Cash Flow to Expand your Winery, Distillery or Brewery’s Distribution. *Sponsored Link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Wine Label Designs: When What is on the Outside Matters
• A wine stopper that answers the question ‘When was this bottle opened?’

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Washington Grape Growers Plan Annual Meeting
• The Virginia Wine Summit is coming to Loudoun County in 2016

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Ad Execs Give Facebook Highest Grades For Social Ad Effectiveness
• Number of Companies Using Instagram To Nearly Double Next Year
• 3 Steps to Get Prospects Coming Back to Your Website
• 4 top tips for keeping your website safe

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• Ericsson’s secure IoT connectivity brings efficiency to winemakers

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• An Overview of Careers in Wine
• 10 unpredicted things every business plan needs

MEDIA MATTERS

• Kramer’s new book: An antidote to overblown winespeak
• Book Review: Tom Acitelli on How American Wine Came of Age
• Cal-Trained Chemist’s Book Traces How He Influenced Wine World
• Book review: ‘Napa Valley Then and Now’

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Neurogastronomy 101: The Science of Taste Perception
• To Be A Successful Sommelier, You Must Work A Harvest
• How Much Wine Comes From One Vine?
• Filtering wine one way doesn’t mean it’s the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• Meet the Sommelier Who’s Changing How Wine is Sold

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Idaho wine industry awaits establishment of Eagle Foothills AVA
• WA: Cadaretta Wine Soil Composition ~ fractured and decayed basalts
• Mexico: Finally fulfilling its wine promise
• Finger Lakes wine industry given the Edward J. Pawenski Business/Industry Award
• Knoxville, TN grocery stores get ready to sell wine

ACADEMIA

• SSU Wine Study Tour Heads to Rome and Southern Italy in May 2016
• Hancock College wine set to go on sale

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Ag needs a plan to deal with climate change

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Helping Growers Optimize Irrigation
• Lodi Growers Boost Knowledge about Grape Pest Management
• Uncorking the chemical potential of wine waste
• U.S. Government Seeking Required Drone User Registry

EUROPE & THE UK

• Prosecco Boom Raises Questions in Champagne
• Poland: One of the most successful European economies of the past decade starts to get noticed

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: China central to Barossa global wine campaign

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Why it’s difficult to sell wine in China (part II)
• Quick pass for imported wine at Chinese customs

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 54 new links including the following top headlines:

• California craft brewer Ballast Point to go public
• Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act tops 100 co-sponsors in the House
• Neurogastronomy 101: The Science of Taste Perception
• How Alcohol Has Shaped American History

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