NEWS FETCH – November 19, 2015

TOP NEWS

• Constellation To Borrow $400Mil To Help Cover Ballast Point Acquisition
• USDA May Help Replant Burned Vineyards
• Director of fake UK wine investment firm banned
• California reaches first milestone in crafting groundwater regulations
• The end of the wine business as we know it?
• The Business of Wine. Accessing key information. *Sponsored Link*

GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Napa vintners optimistic about 2015
• How to become a wine pro? Visit ProWein 2016 in Düsseldorf, Germany *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Unauthorized work at winery vexes Napa Planning Commission
• Sonoma County Vintners Opens 2016 Barrel Auction Trade Invitations
• 11/20 Seminar on HR Management for Wine Business Professionals at SSU
• California vintner John Jordan wants to shape politics — on his terms
• Vintner Leslie Rudd’s $500,000 donation for St. Helena auditorium in limbo

DROUGHT/WATER

• Merced Irrigation District and growers discuss long-term water plan
• DWR and State Water Board discuss their roles in implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
• Measuring the effectiveness of ‘environmental flows’

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Miami: Instacart will now deliver from Total Wine & More

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo Finds Its Entrepreneurial Streak With Fresh Strategies For Product Development
• Diageo Recognized by Human Rights Campaign as “Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality” for Eighth Year in a Row

FINANCE, M&A

• Bordeaux Château de Rayne Vigneau sold
• Facebook Just Built A Kickstarter Competitor
• Meet the world in New York city and source your next winning brand here. RSVP by Dec 31 to get your free trade pass for USA Trade Tasting. *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bruno Giacosa Barolo fetches potentially record price in rare wine auction
• An abundance of fizz
• Shakeshaft warns against Tignanello
• Zachys announces NYC ‘Holiday Auction’

ALCOHOL, HEALTH, AND THE FRENCH PARADOX

• Here’s How Champagne Can Improve Your Skin And Hair
• I Quit Drinking Wine for 10 Days — Here’s Why I’ll Never Do That Again

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• Italian Drinking Rates Drop

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• 3 bad translations that lead sommeliers and drinkers to the wrong sakes

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine.com Says Its Now The World’s Largest Mobile Wine Store
• Top Five Winery Marketing Tips for This Holiday Season
• Customers expect the personal touch
• 4 Mistakes Your Mobile-Ad Strategy Needs to Avoid
• There’s no such thing as the “generic Millennial.” If you’re marketing to this non-existant demographic you’re messing up monumentally.
• Don’t let your customers walk away from their carts

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Should you buy your domain name ending in (.wine)?
• Social Media and Wine – The Perfect Pairing!
• No, Google+ is Not Dead — Google Announces Relaunch
• Generation Z Takes Breaks From Mobile, Social

PAYMENTS

• Europe is going to clamp down on Bitcoin to try to stop terrorism funding

MEDIA MATTERS

• Book Review: Vintage by David Baker
• Another cool new magazine from Andy Blue and Meredith May

MATTERS OF TASTE

• In praise of honest wine reviews
• Drinking red wine at room temperature? You’re doing it all wrong, apparently
• What is an “honest” wine?

WINE PEOPLE

• I’ll Drink to That: Suzanne Mustacich (podcast)
• Sara Matthews ~ A photographer with an extraordinary eye for beauty

WINE PLACES

• Potek Winery Keeps It Classy
• Sharing wine and culture in South Jersey

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Half of Canadians support Canadian wines
• Marketing group DrinkSpace adds Walla Walla wine brand

ACADEMIA

• Washington State University’s wine center aims to train next generation of winemakers

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• MIT Spinoff’s Microbes Turn Beer Waste Into Clean Water, Energy

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Face To Face With A Wine Tasting ‘Electronic Tongue’
• Lasers Could Help Britain Make Better Wine

EUROPE & THE UK

• Jewish Settlement Winemakers Buck Opposition from European Union
• UK wholesaler scheme is ‘potentially deadly’
• UK: Price-cutting, premiumisation driving multiple drinks sales growth
• Prosecco heads hit out at imitators
• Discovery of a Barolo monopole
• Beaujolais: Joie de vivre in France’s answer to Tuscany
• The Vineyard: Is this Britain’s greatest wine hotel?
• Five English wineries to visit – South Downs

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: $1B-plus non-tariff trade barriers must go

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• South African Wine Doubles Market Share In China
• China wine market becoming like any other

AFRICA

• A Kenyan Wine Mystery: Whatever Happened to Richard Leakey’s Il Masin?
• On change, and the end of the Swartland Revolution

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• 12 Kinds Of Wine Drunk You Get While You’re Home For The Holidays

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 48 new links including the following top headlines:

• It’s Time to Rethink What We Mean by ‘Craft Beer’
• Georgia craft brewers say state sold them out to distributors
• Where Is America’s Cider Revival Headed?
• Why Women Are Leading Korea’s Craft Beer Movement
• The 5 Stages of Craft Beer Grief: How to Cope When Your Favorite Brewery Sells Out
• The wheat industry is not keeping pace with other crops

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