NEWS FETCH — February 12, 2016

TOP NEWS

• TTB muddles Kroger/Southern initiative & makes Category Management in general more confusing
• Negative Interest rates are spreading: Here’s what your business needs to know.
• Chinese market moving past Bordeaux
• This former winery GM shows you how you can easily get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• Weak euro offsets ongoing slide in French wine and spirits exports
• Champagne propels French wine exports to record in 2015
• Australian wine facing up to a brave new retail world
• WA: Premium wines hold opportunity, grape growers told
• Your ticket to the world of wine! Experience creations from 6,000 exhibitors at ProWein 2016 *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• #LakeCountyRising Gears Up for Charity Wine Auction
• Laetitia Winery plan to build 82 homes on its property is denied
• Hamel Chair in Wine Business to Address U.S BevEx Feb. 18
• Sonoma County sells 20,000 Super Bowl City wine pours
• Wine growers learn about Pierce’s disease at Shone Farm workshop

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Some Wine Consumers Will Get It, Some Won’t
• How to Hire Top-Selling Sommeliers and Drive Your Sales *Sponsored Link*

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Pernod Ricard outperforms Diageo with solid half-year profit growth
• Asahi offers to buy Peroni and Grolsch for $4 billion
• The problem with Whole Foods’ plans for a new grocery chain

FINANCE, M&A

• Wine company Indevin snaps up Winegrowers of Ara vineyards in Marlborough

DISTRIBUTORS

• Practical Information for wine reps on how to successfully grow sales network in US Market *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-3x: Record high: exposure approaches £30million

HEALTH NANNY WATCH

• Mike’s Hard Lemonade & 21st Century Fox are in the Alcohol Justice Doghouse
• Wine under attack: UK guidelines discount moderation
• CDC Won’t Stop Women Drinking Wine

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Average Brit pays £333 a year in booze tax
• UK’s sky high drinks tax helping Italy win fizz war

DATA & TRENDS

• Hipster Pink? Rosé sales soar as hipsters and Gen Ys embrace wine

MARKETING & SALES

• If you’re trying to sell wine to women, you’ll do better avoiding boxes, cans & synthetic corks
• Millennials Drink Almost Half the Wine Bought in America
• Small-business liquor stores are dying out
• Smartphone Users Want Real-Time Promotions

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• World’s biggest wine barrel unveiled

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Wine Market Council Announces Details of 2016 Consumer Research Conference in Napa
• 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*

PLEASE ENGAGE YOURSELF IN A SOLO STRANGLING GAME TO UNCONSCIOUSNESS BEFORE WRITING THIS HEADLINE. (HINT: IT IS ÜBER TRITE & NOT CLEVER)

• Water into wine

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How A Mystical Concrete Egg Hatched A Money-Saving Wine Tank
• Why Do We Swirl Wine?
• Here’s why vintages run hot and cold

WINE PLACES

• Searching for Whiskey and Wine In Mendocino
• Martin uses award-winning Tempranillo to grow Red Lily Vineyards
• Where to find Lodi’s alternative style wines
• Shanghai: Exotically Approachable
• Nine Cava wineries to visit
• Five reasons to visit Bordeaux this summer
• Mendoza Home of Malbec

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• What Are Cover Crops And Why Are They Really Good For Wine?
• Geotextiles Can Help Prevent Winter Grapevine Damage

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

• Five Aussie whiskies you need to find now
• Pub offers rare £1,000 a shot 1947 gin
• Rexam teams up with Swedish brewer on craft IPA cans
• Asahi offers to buy Peroni and Grolsch for $4 billion
• Plans for first distillery on Raasay approved
• An orchard-to-orchard trip through Ireland’s hard cider boom

Get the rest of today’s craft news at Craft Beverage Insights