NEWS FETCH — May 3, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Some see conspiracy in missing wine-pesticide story pulled by San Francisco TV station
• Kroger Back-Peddles on CatMan Program
• Swirling Wine Export Currents: China, Australia, Portugal, Angola, USA, Brazil
• Proposed Establishment of the “Appalachian High Country” Viticultural Area (NC/VA/TN) (PDF)
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• NZ wine industry forecasts growth in plantings
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Fourth-Generation Mondavis Are Happily Making Wine Together
• Days left to save $1500 on USA Trade Tasting Exhibitor Registrations. Super Early Bird Ends April 30 .*Sponsored Link*

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• 7 of the best alcohol subscription services

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine Estates Ltd’s Trend Up, Especially After Today’s 52-Week High Milestone

FINANCE, M&A

• Buy Barrel Oak Winery in Virginia for $14M
• A Piece of French Dining and Wine History Up for Sale

DISTRIBUTORS

• Southern Wine & Spirits plans expansion
• Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s the Checklist *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Suduiraut 2015 released above recent vintages
• US$300k raised for Cité du Vin
• Whisky and Burgundy Spice Up Spring Sales

HEALTH

• Don’t believe the hype on champagne’s effects on dementia
• Is the Big-Gulp Wine Trend Making You Fat?
• How to count the calories in wine

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Proposed Tax Bill to Benefit US Wine Industry
• FDA Issues Final Guidance on Chain Restaurant Menu Labeling
• TN: Clarifying the details of wine coming to grocery stores

DATA & TRENDS

• The U.S. Market’s Top Imported Premium Wines
• Craft Beer Product Segmentation 2015: A Tale Of Two Charts

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• The 5 Tribes of Online Buyers: Webinar Friday

MARKETING & SALES

• Millennials, Mindsets & Money: Increasing Online Sales by Wineries
• Why Is eBay Opening An Online Wine Shop?

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• 10 Tips to Designing the Perfect Trade Advert *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How to Effectively Use Infographics In Your Winery, Brewery or Distillery’s Everyday Business.
• How Brands Are Using Chat To Strengthen Customer Relationships
• Touting Bikinis on LinkedIn Is Inappropriate — But Not For the Reasons You Might Think
• Time Spent with Facebook Still Growing, but Not by Much

PAYMENTS

• 8 Companies Making Payment Handling Easy

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Secret to Blind Tasting? Know “The Grid”

WINE PEOPLE

• Leaving Forward: Craig Camp
• Meet the ‘New King’ of Croatian Sparkling Wine
• Marc Perrin on the importance of terroir, family, and future generations
• Top 100 Most Influential People in UK Wine 2016

WINE PLACES

• Bordeaux ~ Getting to the Bottom of Left and Right Bank Soils ~ partie six

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• WA: Wine Boss takes over Gordon Estate winemaking

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Precision Irrigation System Key to Sustainable Vineyard Management (video)

EUROPE & THE UK

• Britain central to global wine trade
• Champagne Pommery to make English fizz
• Campaign to stop Douro dam gathers pace

DOWN UNDER

• National survey reveals damning state of gender equality in the Australian wine industry
• OZ: Boost for international wine marketing the trade highlight for budget 2016
• OZ: Federal budget reveals suite of changes for winemakers
• OZ: Conservative budget for agriculture, as Coalition looks ahead to the election
• Strong Potential for Tasmanian Sparkling Wine in UK

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• The Flying Column: Japan

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• This gadget keeps an ‘open’ wine bottle fresh for over a decade

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

• Kroger Back-Peddles on CatMan Program
• Where is craft brewing today?
• Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act Hits 200 Co-Sponsors in U.S. House
• ‘Craft’ Beer Sabermetrics: the BCQ (Brewery Capacity Quotient)

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