NEWS FETCH – November 13, 2015

TOP NEWS

• Online wine sales shatter records on China’s Singles’ Day festival
• At $24B, 2015 Craft Beer Almost Equal to CA Wine
• Ag labor H-2A visas to increase as immigration stalls
• Hungarian wine producer jailed for killing thief with antifreeze
• So wet, yet so far from drought recovery
• The Business of Wine. Moving beyond Excel. *Sponsored Link*

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• OZ: Trans-Pacific trade deal another step closer
• Taiwan trade booms two years after FTA with NZ

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• How Short Was California’s Grape Crop?
• Looking Back at the 2015 Season in PA
• Earliest Walla Walla Valley wine harvest high quality
• Do you have the spirit(s)? Get ready for ProWein 2016 *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• ID, CA Winemakers pushing new AVAs
• Napa wine industry gathers for Rootstock
• The needs of the Napa wine factory
• Where Lodi fits in the latest American Wine Consumer Preference survey

DROUGHT/WATER

• UC scientists test inexpensive way to capture El Niño rains
• Runner and Huff File Water Priorities Constitutional Amendment & New Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Facilities Bond Act
• El Niño is here, and it’ll be ‘one storm after another like a conveyor belt’

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Willamette Valley Vineyards Posts a Profit for the Third Quarter 2015
• Diageo Seeks Consumer Research to Help Reverse Sales Slump
• How User Choices Can Boost Your Wine Club Membership & Loyalty. Click For A Free Best Practices Webinar *Sponsored Link*

DISTRIBUTORS

• Getting Your Wines into the UK
• 8 Key Points On Pricing Your Wine, Beer & Spirits for Sustainable Growth *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Wine, stamps, and art values have smoked bonds since 1900
• Liv-ex 100: a discord in 2015
• Christie’s DWWA wine auction for WaterAid sets new record

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• Red blends are blowing the doors off wine sales! How big it it? Reeeeally BIG!

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Stop Being Intimidated by Wine, America
• American Wine Consumers Want Fruity, a Little Sweet and Not Expensive

MARKETING & SALES

• The 4 keys to marketing success in 2016
• 95% of email marketers see open-rate increase with personalization
• Mobile marketing fails — and how to avoid them (webinar)
• How to Manage Cash Flow to Expand your Winery, Distillery or Brewery’s Distribution. *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Four highlights from the 2015 American Wine Society conference

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• 30 Days Worth of Social Media Hacks and Experiments
• 5 Tips on How to Maximize Social-Media Efforts With a Small Team
• Bing’s new tool explains why your site isn’t mobile friendly

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Wine training for staff leads to increased profits

MEDIA MATTERS

• New wine film ‘Somm: Into the Bottle’ is ambitious, dangerously selective
• Hapless lexicography: Italian Wine Glossary updated and revised

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Soil and wine: a seminar with Pedro Parra
• Bordeaux winemaker brews Sauvignon beer
• The rise of Pacific Northwest riesling
• Aglianico: The Barolo of the South
• What Is Ripasso?
• Inglorious Bâterd: Leave the Millennials Alone
• Vouvray, A Versatile Wine Worthy of Attention
• Filtering wine one way doesn’t mean it’s the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

WINE PEOPLE

• Meet Washington’s ‘rock ’n’ roll winemaker’
• From St. Petersburg to St. Helena: Victoria Kulinich found her niche in wine

WINE PLACES

• The Evening Land Diaspora
• Explore Sonoma County on a California Wines Road Trip

ACADEMIA

• Allan Hancock College Bonded to Sell Wine
• Pursue a career in wine industry

EUROPE & THE UK

• Why France demanded to serve wine at meal with Iran’s leader
• English wine basking in warmer climes

DOWN UNDER

• We need to talk about old vines: Wine Australia

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Cool Winemaking Machines: Watch A Grape Sorter In Action
• Friday the 13th – Revenge of the Wine

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 56 new links including the following top headlines:

• 2015 Craft Beer Sales Expected to Be $24B, up 22%
• Craft brewers, wholesalers raise anti-trust issues over AB InBev/SABMiller sale
• In the intensely competitive world of beer sales, size may not help win the consumer stakes
• What a Comic Book Can Tell You About Beer

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