NEWS FETCH — March 8, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Winegrape vines sprout in Sonoma, Napa, Lake counties
• GMO and Menu Labeling Legislation Could Impact the Wine Industry
• Italy’s Famed Wine Region a War Zone, Invaded by Boars and Others
• Is El Niño Finally Ending California’s Drought?
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WINE SUPPLY

• State of the Central Coast
• OZ: Bumper grape harvest for Queensland’s Granite Belt has winemakers salivating
• OZ: Tasmanian bushfires: Wine grapes tested for smoke taint after months of fires across state
• Blatch on Bordeaux 2015 – the wines
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• François Guillaume appointed President of Guillaume Grapevine Nursery
• So Chef Tyler Florence Walks Into A Winery…

DROUGHT/WATER

• Delta Smelt Populations Plummet 2nd Year In A Row
• There’s a Cancer-Causing Chemical in My Drinking Water, But California Isn’t Regulating It
• Our coastal waters are in trouble. Here’s how we can help save them and fight the drought
• There Are Still Some Easy Drought Solutions
• Photographer’s Film to Bring Drought into Focus
• 219 drought maps show just how thirsty California has become

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Mallya’s Diageo pay-off frozen as pressure mounts
• Majestic Wine PLC (WINE) Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Investec

FINANCE, M&A

• Asian investor Peter Kwok buys another Bordeaux château

DISTRIBUTORS

• Total Wine Set To Tap New Markets
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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Eglise Clinet 2012: Bouncing back
• The Joy of Building a Custom Wine Cellar
• 2012 Right Banks reign in Robinson scores
• Sunken Treasure Surfaces at Wine Sale

HEALTH

• The association of alcohol consumption with the risk of diabetes mellitus
• Another reason not to binge-drink: It can give you a heart attack or stroke
• Breaking The Seal: Fact Or Fiction?

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Champagne loses battle to ban kids drink ‘Champin’

DATA & TRENDS

• UK retains Champagne export crown as sales return to growth

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Know Your Sensitivity to Oak in Wine
• How options-overload is driving a trend towards perfection in simple, focused products
• For all our industry’s efforts at improving wine quality, the secret of success may be found inside a consumer’s brain

MARKETING & SALES

• Current Benchmarks for your Tasting Room – Survey
• 15 ways psychology can boost ecommerce sales
• When Savvy Marketing Meets Sparkling Wine
• 3 hard punches to give your wine brand a fighting chance
• 7 Digital-Marketing Predictions You Need to Keep Your Eye On

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Napa Valley’s Humanitas releases swing-top wine bottle
• Boxed-Wine Marketers Strive for Leadership in Sustainable Packaging
• Understanding German riesling labels

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

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SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Global trading platform for bulk-wine industry launched
• Scotchy, scotch, scotch: How Macallan uses Instagram to court millennial drinkers
• Social Media as a Social Science

MEDIA MATTERS

• Grocery store Chardonnay reviewed in the year’s best wine blog post
• In the future, everyone will be a famous wine taster for 15 minutes
• Alice Feiring, For the Love of Wine: A Review
• Book Review: Riesling Rediscovered
• Blogging for SEO: five beginners’ tips

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Savoie: Unusual Wines From the French Alps
• Wine pairings: ‘purely chemistry’
• Wine grape IQ test
• Can wine get too cold?

WINE PEOPLE

• In a field of rich congressional candidates, this wine magnate is the richest
• On Wine And Tech With Built.io’s Neha Sampat
• What about women in wine?

WINE PLACES

• Monterey’s hippest tasting rooms
• A Wine Wave Washes Over the Meatpacking District (NY)
• Cave B Estate Winery celebrates 15th year (WA)
• Producer profile: Tenuta San Leonardo
• Béres Winery (video)

WINE TOURISM

• Helicopter pilot does driving for tastings in Willamette Valley

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• BC: Penticton moves grocery store wine sales to public hearing

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Australian wine industry researching grape marc as stock feed to mitigate climate change

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Younger people drink less but binge when they do
• Italy’s first all-woman vineyard
• Going Native in Northern Italy

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Cheap Wine To Rocket Up By 235 Percent Under New Alcohol Tax Model
• OZ: Tax wine as beer and raise $2.9 billion per year, says lobby group
• Winemakers’ Federation of Australia rejects FARE’s tax bid
• Assyrtiko Finds a Home in Oz

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Promoting wine culture in China with a light heart

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa, amo-te

AROUND THE GLOBE

• More on Tel Kabri’s Wine Stores

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Krystal Kleen: A Household Invention That Can Clean Even An Upside Down Wine Glass

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS – Including the following top headlines:

• Home Beer Delivery: Will it Be Disruptive?
• What does the future hold for craft gin?
• China’s taste for craft beer offers fizz for global brewers

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