NEWS FETCH — March 15, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Campari Agrees to Acquire Grand Marnier for $760 Million
• Millennials are ditching beer for liquor and wine
• Restaurant Wine Wars and The Curse of the Second-Cheapest Wine
• Mandatory FDA Menu Labeling Delayed Until Next Year
• Pesticide use falls 3 percent in California
• Drinkers Drink in Good Times More Than Bad
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WINE SUPPLY

• Demand High for Central Coast Grapes and Wine
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Charities Get Nearly $6 Million from Auction Napa Valley Proceeds
• Lodi Native Project garners attention for zinfandel
• A Lake County wine auction in Napa? You bet.
• Creditors seek Ferrari, Corvette from disgraced Berkeley wine purveyor

DROUGHT/WATER

• Drenched by ‘March Miracle,’ Northern California reservoirs inch toward capacity
• Water supply estimates fall for most of the West
• California’s biggest reservoir, Shasta, rises to key milestone
• Catching Storm Runoff Could Ease Droughts, But It’s No Quick Fix
• Turloc Irrigation District could affirm higher water allotment
• Supposedly thirsty California farmers must wise up about water
• Does California Need a New Water Market?
• As Rain Falls, Tensions Rise Over Who Gets Water

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• South Africa Keeps U.S. Duty-Free Access After Trade Dispute
• Final Step Taken to Avoid Costly Tariffs on American Wine in Canada

DISTRIBUTORS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• 2012 boosts Left Bank Bordeaux trading
• Latour to release ‘totality’ of 2000 stocks

HEALTH

• Are People Choosing Working Out Over Wine?

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• SD: Regents to set policy governing beer, wine sales on campus

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• The Perfect Pairing: Machine Learning and Wine
• Why You Should Skip the Wine-Pairing Menu
• Trump wines are actually pretty good. But I can’t put them on restaurant menus.
• Are Donald Trump’s wine any good? What the critics say
• Save your pennies

MARKETING & SALES

• Encouraging dynamic customer feedback

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Farewell to Champagne flutes in 2016?

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Prowein 2016: Inside a wine trade show
• Wine symposium and trade show coming to Paso Robles Event Center
• Impact Retailer Panel Tackles Consolidation, Craft, Delivery And Other Hot Topics
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SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Ensuring you have a mobile messaging strategy is becoming as essential as that for social media
• Updated Checklist for Social Media Managers
• When Beyoncé Mentions Your Brand, Don’t Repeat Red Lobster’s Social Failure

PAYMENTS

• Amazon files selfie payment patent

MEDIA MATTERS

• Google issues guidelines on bloggers and links for freebies

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Balance and Complexity: How Oxygen and Aromatic Interactions Impact Wine
• What Exactly are Cult Wines?
• What does “value” in wine mean to you?
• Expensive wine might not be as great as you think it is
• Ideological Wine
• What is that ginormous concrete egg?

WINE PEOPLE

• Wine Writer’s Journal: How To Interview A Rock Star (Charles Smith)
• Àlvaro Palacios wins Winemakers’ Winemaker Award 2016
• 10 female California winemakers to watch
• Marlize Jacobs of Vergenoegd Wine Estate

WINE PLACES

• Tin City poised to become Paso Robles’ hippest new wine-tasting destination
• King County ranks as America’s fifth best wine destination (WA)

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Substandard imported wine and food destroyed in Wenzhou, China
• Research project aims to discover what our Asian neighbours look for in a good drop
• Australia launches today wine tasting notes for Chinese drinkers

SOUTH AFRICA

• Nederburg turns on the wine power in global travel retail

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• “No Country for Old Men Wine Critics” by Cormac McCarthy
• Corks: They’re Just Like US!

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

• Oskar Blues Brewery announces acquisition of Cigar City Brewing Co.
• Millennials are ditching beer for liquor and wine
• Craft beer is now drowning in brands and products
• What to watch in beer in 2016 – and beyond
• The Big Business of Bottle Release Days

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