NEWS FETCH – November 30, 2015

TOP NEWS

• El Niño could be a boon or a blow to California vineyards
• US to get 16m extra wine drinkers by 2025
• Stores expect record wine sales this season (*Note: some readers might hit a paywall?)
• Grapevine Red Blotch Disease: An Emerging and Widespread Menace
• 2015 likely to be warmest on record, 2011-2015 warmest five year period
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GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Napa Valley Grapegrowers report: Preparing for winter in an El Nino Year
• Icewine harvest begins for BC wine industry
• Wine Harvest 2015: Loire Valley Reports a Warm Summer and Promising Wines
• Seed your success – visit ProWein 2016 for unique wine creations

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• San Joaquin Valley grape growers feel the pain, change
• Matriarch of Alexander Valley grape-growing family dies at 95
• Revamped winery law: Good vintage or sour grapes?
• Napa County wants state subsidy for farmworker centers
• TerrAvion Offers Aerial Imaging to Help Vineyard Owners Assess Damage after Valley Fire
• Bouncing back from receivership, Cameron Hughes discounts Napa Valley for you

DROUGHT/WATER

• California’s Central Valley is sinking — as the drought forces farmers to ponder the abyss
• Rain ends drought in Western Washington
• Rising to El Niño’s challenges – and opportunities
• More California farmland could vanish as water shortages loom beyond drought
• Water – Think Again
• A tale of two California droughts: Lessons amidst record warmth and dryness in a region of complex physical and human geography
• WA: $58 million price has farmers divided about emergency water plan

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Why are the most ardent defenders of a free market so dead-set against DTC?

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine Confirms Distribution Shake-Up
• Willamette Valley Vineyards Announces Annual Cash Dividend for Series A Redeemable Preferred Stock

DISTRIBUTORS

• Back Door Distribution Techniques to get your Distributor
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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Wine investment fraud unraveled in insolvency court
• After long decline, the Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 closed positive last week
• Italy: Storming ahead
• Who Isn’t Buying Rudy’s Wines?
• How to make money? Try fine wine and fast cars
• iDealwine auction report: The rise of the heir of Jayer
• Bordeaux: more than just premier crus
• Fine wine in focus: Spain

ALCOHOL, HEALTH, AND THE FRENCH PARADOX

• Scientists hope ‘supermouse’ can’t get drunk
• Can champagne really improve your memory and stave off dementia?
• Glass of wine a day may help you age slower

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Grape Commodity Groups Urge Congress To Not Cut Crop Insurance

INDUSTRY DATA & TRENDS

• US wine booming in UK on-trade
• UK: Three in Ten Willing To Spend £10 Or More On Wine
• Cold 2015 chills UK drinks industry

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Do we want wine to be described in specific details, or would we rather that consumers buy it?

MARKETING & SALES

• How to Remarket Unsold Wines
• Personalized wine clubs give you access to your customers.
• Cyber Monday Wine, Behind The Scenes: Executing The Deal
• 10 Do-or-Die Lessons for your Sales Team

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Ball hires Goldman Sachs to sell 11 plants to appease EU antitrust regulators over Rexam deal

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• The New Wave Of Selling On Mobile And Social
• When is it the best time to post to social media?
• The email deliverability rate’s down to 79%. How’re your customer emails doing

MEDIA MATTERS

• ‘Eight Hundred Grapes’ begs to be explored with a glass of wine at your side
• Beyond Bordeaux – Season 1 – A Travel Series with Host Patrick Cappiello
• Wine Musical Hits the Right Notes

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine and anthropomorphism
• Tasting wine – a moment and the space between
• Sauvignon Blanc Grape – Climatic, Winery Influence, Most important regions
• Marveling at an unapologetic snob’s ‘panache’
• Wine and DNA profiling
• Vernatsch, the Cinderella of Süditrol, is ready for the ball
• Genetic differences in microbes and wine variation linked

WINE PEOPLE

• Honouring the biodynamic legacy of the late Anne-Claude Leflaive, Clau de Nell
• Midwesterner Teaches Winemaking in Napa
• Winemaker Rob Chrisman Moves Beyond Traditional Winemaking
• Petaluma master sommelier behind ‘Uncorked’ TV series
• Bruce Neyers of Neyers Vineyards (podcast)
• Andrew McNamara of The Court of Master Sommeliers (podcast)
• Karen MacNeil (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• The future of Gaja: Refining fine wines

WINE EDUCATION

• Clark State partners with national wine education program

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Growers In A Challenging Environment Welcome On-Farm Trials
• Oregon: Abacela discovers 140-year-old Mission grape planting
• TTB establishes Eagle Foothills AVA for Idaho wine industry
• NY wine prices coming down to earth

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Carbon dioxide causes wine grapes to ripen earlier and decreases flavour compounds
• As the heat rises, the wines are a-changing
• Wine Flavour is Least of Climate Change Fears

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Ways to improve the quality of your wine by minimizing the effects of wine defects

EUROPE & THE UK

• Château Lafite Rothschild technical director Charles Chevallier to step down
• Nizza: The Long Tail of Italy’s 74th DOCG and the Waiting Game
• Wine: Georgia’s most popular export thrives in embargo
• Trunk Disease Threat to Cognac

DOWN UNDER

• Australia’s Barossa Valley Wineries Dodge Menacing Wildfire
• OZ: Independent winemakers accuse supermarkets of causing ‘confusion in marketplace’ with murky labeling
• South Australian wine grape growers to go into arbitration with unions over working conditions
• OZ: Riverina seeks recognition

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Young women key to China wine rise
• The Grape Indian Wine Trail
• China explores white wines
• ‘Great potential’ for Australian bulk wine in China

LATIN AMERICA

• Protecting Wine Brands in Central America, South America and the Caribbean

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Israel Aims to Recreate Wine That Jesus and King David Drank

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 73 new links including the following top headlines:

• Craft beer is business, not charity
• Craft brewers say new FDA mandate will limit beer selection
• Here’s why Pabst Brewing isn’t afraid of the craft beer movement
• Craft Spirits Are More Expensive Than Ever. Here’s Why Consumers Are Still Willing To Pay Up

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