NEWS FETCH – November 6, 2015

TOP NEWS

• NY Judge Sides with Empire Wine: Liquor Authority must release documents
• Nancy Pelosi’s vineyard makes her fourth-richest Californian in Congress
• Diageo agrees to sell Argentinean wine business to Grupo Peñaflor
• Details of Pacific Trade Pact Fuel Debate
• How Millennials Are Changing Wine
• The Business of Wine. Moving beyond Excel. *Sponsored Link*

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Oregon Wine Industry Reports “Exceptional” Harvest
• ProWein World: Your success story – ready for export! *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Upmarket Shift Paying Off For Monterey’s Hahn Family Wines
• November 7 Graduation Planned for Napa Executive Wine MBA
• Napa supports push for more alcohol-selling licenses

DROUGHT/WATER

• Farmworking communities in the Central Valley battle ongoing California drought
• What’s next for the Delta tunnels project and a look at the emergency drought barrier
• Farmers fear no Friant-Kern water
• Sacramento residents exposed to carcinogen in their drinking water

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Do’s and Don’ts for DtC
• How User Choices Can Boost Your Wine Club Membership & Loyalty. Click For A Free Best Practices Webinar *Sponsored Link*

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Truett-Hurst Sets Q1/FY16 Earnings Release, Conference Call & Webcast
• 8 Key Points On Pricing Your Wine, Beer & Spirits for Sustainable Growth *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• French Wine Exchange Ltd: Sell wines but does not provide it?
• After dropping 1.2% in October, the Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 fell a further 0.6% this week
• Fine wine broker LHK to close

ALCOHOL, HEALTH, AND THE FRENCH PARADOX

• Could drinking white wine do your body good?
• Food (& wine) does not grow in boxes
• 7 Things That Happen To Your Body When You Stop Drinking

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• TTB Makes Small Change to COLA Process
• TTB Reopens the Comment Period for Proposed Viticultural Area and a Realignment

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• These Two Charts Show How Brown-Forman Sales Soared After Abandoning Wine
• Sparkling Wine: Bubbling Under

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• The Most Popular Wines Must Be Better Because They Are The Most Popular

MARKETING & SALES

• Drinks trade heavyweights reveal how they made it to the top
• Millennials Say Sustainability Is a Shopping Priority
• Negative press happens. Are you prepared for it?
• Successful customer engagement management demands planning, personalisation and optimisation
• How to Manage Cash Flow to Expand your Winery, Distillery or Brewery’s Distribution. *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Strong exhibitor registration for PROWEIN 2016
• China Market and Sustainability of Wine Business in Focus at Conference

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Follow These 4 Steps to Turn Social Followers Into Brand Super Fans
• Social media: a revolutionary change that is impossible to ignore
• Instagram’s testing new ads that drive sales

MEDIA MATTERS

• Seattle native stars in ‘Uncorked’ TV series

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Are Supertasters Getting More Out Of Wine Than You Are?
• Explanation for mysterious ‘mineral’ flavors could be logical, geological or both
• Millennials, social media–and the death of wine wisdom
• Four things that would make wine more fun to drink
• Second wines deserve a second look
• Yes way, rosé
• Filtering wine one way doesn’t mean it’s the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• Chuck Wagner Honored by Wine Society
• The patriarch of modern Priorat: Carles Pastrana
• Then and Now: Baron Eric de Rothschild
• Elizabeth Hooker joins Trinchero as senior director

WINE PLACES

• Why not wine in the MonDak, ND?
• Four Mendoza wineries to visit

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Beetle juice is headache for Iowa winemakers

ACADEMIA

• Winemaking at Penn State

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Fair Trade: A Matter of Ethics

EUROPE & THE UK

• The importance of being Cannubi (and its subzones)

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Regional wine register uncorked
• OZ: Alix Hardy to take over from dad Bill

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Austerity has given rise to ‘real consumers’ in China
• HK wine exporters open doors to China

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine salts used by WWII subs on display
• Acid Freaks and MacBeth
• Does putting a spoon in your champagne bottle REALLY stop it from going flat?

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

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

• Campaign files ballot initiatives to end Colorado’s 3.2 beer law
• Third party producers ‘fundamental’ to spirits industry
• Drinks trade heavyweights reveal how they made it to the top
• CBA Shipments Up in Third Quarter Despite ‘Unprecedented Competition’
• Domestic tax paid by brewers shows increase in September 2015

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