NEWS FETCH — January 12, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Glazer Family To Keep Malt Beverage Division After Southern Buyout
• Vivino raises $25M round, led by Moet Hennessey CEO
• Michel Chapoutier buys Provence rosé Château des Ferrages
• Bacardi Announces Move to Southern Glazer’s
• EU and US divisions over data protection threaten agreement
• Israel: High-rise to be build over Bronze Age wine cellar
• Price Wars, Over Mass Production Threatens Chile’s Hold on the Wine Industry
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GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY

• Whatever Happened to Argentina’s Wine Boom?
• OZ fires: Yarloop residents did not receive warnings, says local winemaker
• ProWein 2016 easier to navigate for US buyers – check out “Route USA”! *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• To Napa’s Wine Critics: Shame On You!
• Successful San Joaquion Valley wine grape growers honored
• The Carneros Wine Alliance Elects New Board of Directors
• How to Hire Top-Selling Sommeliers and Drive Your Sales *Sponsored Link*

WINE SCAMS

• Smashing Solution to Chinese Wine Fraud
• Warning to wine producers and négociants:

DROUGHT/WATER

• Despite recent rain, drought not over in Sonoma County
• Water Deeply Executive Summary for January 11
• Reservoir and water conditions for January 11, 2016

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Altria’s Wine Segment: Surprising Top Performer for 2015
• AB InBev caught up in illegal tax break

FINANCE, M&A

• Asahi eyes Peroni and Grolsch as SABMiller prepares to merge with AB-InBev

DISTRIBUTORS

• Southern closes Glazer’s deal
• FMV signs exclusive agency deal with South Africa’s Mullineux
• Terlato Wines Adds Riondo Prosecco to Luxury Wine Portfolio
• Practical Information for wine reps on how to successfully grow sales network in US Market *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Fine Wine outperforms other indices in ’15
• Fine wine market resists Great Fall of China

HEALTH

• Will a mislabeled wine distort your blood alcohol content?
• Drinking is evil edition
• The Internet’s Hilarious Freak Out Over The UK’s New Alcohol Rulings
• OZ: New tax study on decreasing abuse not credible, says WFA chief
• Which Is Healthier: Grape Juice or Red Wine?
• What fizzy drinks do to your vital organs

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• 2016 Calif Legislative Update, Part IV: Cannabis
• Video: National Retailers Pushing for Wine Sales in Grocery Stores
• New legislation expands Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council to other beverage producers

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Vivino strengthens app with OCR partnership

MARKETING & SALES

• WineStyles Tasting Station continues franchise expansion nationwide
• New Year alcohol sales growth ‘outstripped food’, data shows
• Price promotion going crazy
• 3 Brand Loyalty Lessons Learned from SEC Football

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Beverage Q&A with USBevX Keynote, Leslie Sbrocco
• NZ to host first Sauvignon Blanc world conference
• Wine Importers and Distributors, meet the world in NYC and source your next brand at USATT. Get your trade Pass Now and Avoid Gate Fee. *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How Is Data Driving Marketing?
• What Consumers Expect from Mobile Retail Sites

MEDIA MATTERS

• Did Wine Blogs Die Without a Funeral?
• Critiques of Recent Publications

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Scores & Critics: Wineries can’t have it both ways
• Whither Bordeaux: Bordeaux wines
• The Best Way to Preserve Half-Drunk Bottles of Wine
• What wines to watch out for in 2016 – Are our tastes changing?
• Touch Table Wine Tasting Experience with Jean-Charles Boisset
• True wine snobs: People who judge a wine by its package

WINE PEOPLE

• The wine legend who helped put Burgundy on the world map

WINE PLACES

• At Home in Verona

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• N.Y. Wine Group Plans for Succession
• Wisconsin brewery tour: Having a round on the state’s beer circuit
• How De Grendel (Finally) Became a Wine Farm

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Viticulture briefs
• Purdue-based agriculture software startup receives $225,000 grant from NSF

EUROPE & THE UK

• Drinks aisles rescue supermarkets as festive grocery sales struggle

DOWN UNDER

• Prosecco corks keep popping in Australia

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Donald Trump, Your New Emperor of Wine
• In Trump’s Ancestral Home, Folks Tout the Wine, but Not the Donald

OLIVE OIL

• Puglia’s Gold: A look at the olive oil crisis
• Tunisia’s Olive Oil Output Drops from Last Year’s Record
• Olive oil price in Turkey jumping 107 percent compared to 2015

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS – Today’s Headlines

• The Favorite Beers Of Every NFL Team’s Fans
• Heathwick adds Saugatuck Backyard IPA to US craft beer portfolio

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