NEWS FETCH — May 6, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Napa locals take back a winery
• Older Millennials are now America’s most important wine consumers
• Oakdale Irrigation District wins first round in lawsuit over water sales, fallowed land
• Don’t blame the smelt: The salmon too reflects the dire state of the California Delta
• La Niña Does Not Ensure More Drought
• Mendelson’s new book: an insider story of creating and protecting a ‘national treasure’
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma Barrel Auction proceeds up 50 percent over 2015
• Sonoma’s 3 Badge Nears 400,000 Cases As Spirits Portfolio Climbs
• Providing Suitable Seating: Where California Courts Stand On Sitting Down On The Job
• Gilroy Fast Tracks Wine Center
• Napa Wine Train plans new train, winery stops
• Labor to Lead Top Concerns at Vineyard Economics Seminar
• Ron Rubin Appointed to Sonoma County Grape Growers Foundation Board
• Days left to save $1500 on USA Trade Tasting Exhibitor Registrations. Super Early Bird Ends April 30 .*Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• The crucial work of restoring Delta habitat is accelerating
• Drought-Ridden L.A. Tries Rainmakers to Tap Storm Clouds
• California Water Fix Aquatic Science Peer Review, Part 2: Supporting analyses for target aquatic species; Panel’s initial recommendations
• Hope survives in East Porterville, even as wells continue to run dry
• The Klamath River Needs More Than Dam Removal
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Drizly Launches in San Diego

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Altria’s Wine Segment Delivered Robust 1Q16 Results

DISTRIBUTORS

• Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s the Checklist *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Willamette Valley Wineries Association inaugural auction raises $476,000

HEALTH

• 10 Reasons Wine Is Good for You
• Pray away your booze cravings

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Let’s end discrimination in the drinks market

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Can you trust all star ratings on wine bottles?
• How should a sommelier react when you tell her/him a wine is corked?

MARKETING & SALES

• Selling Wine Online – Canada and the World
• Your Lame Small Talk Could Be Costing You the Sale
• Why Millennial Women Crave Authenticity
• Millennials, Gen-Z Alienated by Ads in Social News Feeds
• Stop all mobile advertising immediately

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Cork suppliers step toward TCA-free future

CUSTOMER RELATIONS

• How to Deal With Your Rowdy Customers

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Snapchat moves into ecommerce: what you need to know
• Chatbots: The next frontier for brand and consumer conversation?
• Everything you need to know about Snapchat’s On-Demand Geofilters for your next campaign

MEDIA MATTERS

• Longer-Form Articles Work on Smartphones

MATTERS OF TASTE

• For the Love of a Rose
• Cellar Time

WINE PEOPLE

• Revolutionary Young Winemakers in South Africa
• Q&A: Robin Langton of Ridgeview
• ‘Cuvée du Chat’ label designer dies

WINE PLACES

• Take a Wine Tour in Chile

WINE EDUCATION

• What I Learned – and Drank – at Wine School

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Nova Scotia announces funds to grow wine industry
• Tracing Baja California’s evolution, one bottle of wine at a time

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Grape Pests Updates – Spring 2016

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK wine market niche trends

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Small winemakers assured wine tax reforms won’t shut them out
• WET: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• Ex-Aussie Prime Minister’s Wine Spending Spree

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• New China wine import figures: France and Australia lead the growth in first quarter

LATIN AMERICA

• When there’s a wine, there’s a way to make it in Chile

OLIVE OIL

• Trade Deal Would Remove Tariff Imbalance for U.S. Olive Oil Producers

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

• Not all Craft Brewery Acquisitions are Created Equal
• Beer Institute Releases Domestic Tax Paid Estimate
• Craft brew honchos worried about AB InBev, SABMiller deal, new FDA regs
• Investing in Craft Beer’s Growth: An Opportunity Emerges
• Twitter Fight Over Racy Indiana Beer Label Highlights Industry Sexism Concerns

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