NEWS FETCH — May 17, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Jackson Family Wines to acquire Healdsburg’s Copain Wines
• Dakota Creek Winery closing its doors (WA)
• Wine Tax Bill Inches Ahead
• Sonoma State Wine Business Institute gets $200K more for wine center
• How About Some Wine With That Nanny State?
• The World’s Biggest Wine Drinkers
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• Hail in Chablis vineyards adds to frost woes
• WI winery loses 80 percent of its red grapes during late-season freeze
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• California may spend $10 million on earthquake warning system
• Supes approve Girard Winery on Dunaweal
• Martinez named general manager at Jarvis Estate Winery
• Guillaume Grapevine Nursery Researches Mycorrhization
• Oliver’s Markets new Windsor store is the latest offering in the full-service supermarket battle
• Deadline to reserve USA Trade Tasting Exhibitor space with super early bird pricing is 31 May, 2016. Reserve your spot with 25% down and save $900. *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• A New Data Initiative Is Changing Water Management
• California agencies sending mixed signals on drought conditions
• Governor seeking extra $5 million for drought relief
• Why did El Nino miss Southern California? It’s complicated.

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Concha y Toro launches wine advice app

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Sociando Mallet 2015: looking back?

HEALTH

• Healthy Drink Alliance: If we don’t self regulate, the government will (UK)

DATA & TRENDS

• Dropping The Mic On Online Wine ROI (TMRW Engine’s 2016 Digital Wine Report)
• So Much for Drowning Your Sorrows – Drinkers Drink in Good Times More Than Bad

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• More wine-tasting visitors become club members
• How a small winery can find their way onto a restaurant wine list

MARKETING & SALES

• Bartender, There’s a Logo in My Drink
• Four things marketers need to know about millennial women

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• A Dutch Plastic Wine Container Made In The U.S. Rust Belt

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Innovation and Connected Technology: Building the Future of Wine
• How Social Media Affects Our Wellbeing
• 85 percent of Facebook video is watched without sound
• Twitter will reportedly stop counting photos, links in 140-character tweet limit

PAYMENTS

• Walmart Pay’s big rollout begins with statewide launches in Texas and Arkansas

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Science Behind Great Wine

WINE PEOPLE

• Wine Institute Honors Congressmen Ken Calvert and Jim Costa with Leadership Award
• Meet movers and shakers of Houston wine scene

WINE PLACES

• Italy’s Next Great Destination

WINE EDUCATION

• WSET launches redesigned Level 1 Award in Spirits

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• With Long Island Wine, don’t talk, just act
• Memphis supermarkets start stocking wine (TN)
• WA vineyard wraps up planting

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Winery produces synthetic Italian sparkler
• USDA Provides Risk Management Tool For Growers
• Effects of grapevine leafroll disease on wine quality (and when is a disease a disease?)
• Azmera to Deliver JD Edwards, Technology, and Process Services to Wine and Agriculture

EUROPE & THE UK

• Alentejo Wine in Transition: History and Changing Times in Portugal’s “Lodi”

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: The wine industry is set to move into a stronger, long-term position
• OZ: Owners desperate to reopen Boronia’s Old Orchard Winery after lease expiry
• OZ: A wine tax to benefit whom?
• WA wine industry disproportionately impacted by WET reforms

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Why Burgundy Is The Hottest Wine Region In Asia Now

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• NAPA Technology Introduces New Spirit/Batch Cocktail Dispensing System, RFID and Mag Stripe Hotel Access for On-Demand Wine and Spirit Dispensing
• Introducing Somm: The HAL9000 of home wine consumption
• The Walrus and the Winemaker

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

• Has craft beer lost its flavor to globalization?
• How science can improve craft beer
• Bartender, There’s a Logo in My Drink
• How craft cocktails are reviving gin
• The Evolution of the Cocktail Movement

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