NEWS FETCH — May 31, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Caymus Warns of county regulatory threats, will move most bottling jobs & operation to Suisun
• Cigarettes, Big-Beer, Soda & Candy Bars Dominate Forbes List of World’s Largest Food & Beverage Companies
• Selling Millennials Through Myths & Lies (Part 1)
• Hailstorms badly damage French vineyards, mainly Cognac
• Man saves sinking boat with vodka cork
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• Spain’s Wine Industry Is Hiccuping From Its Excesses
• Frost damage report – Loire May 2016
• English wine gets 37 new producers
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Christian Moueix: 30 Years as the Face of Dominus
• Sea Change Coming To California Winegrape Landscape
• Livermore Valley Wine Auction Raises $325,000 for Charities
• 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

• Water and salt exports from the Delta – A tale of two plots
• Could overhead irrigation work in California?

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Branded sales boost revenue for Australian Vintage
• Sales of English wine up 13% at Waitrose

FINANCE, M&A

• Wineries sold! The trickle down effect
• Where wine trade meets money
• NZ: Marlborough ‘end game’ now in play
• OZ: What happens when farmers want to sell but no Australians are interested in buying?

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bordeaux Estates Pricing 2015 Wines 19% Above Previous Vintage
• Built to Last: Collecting Age-Worthy Wine
• What could Jefferson buy today?
• Liv-Ex – Talking Trade: 20th May – 26th May
• D’Yquem 1892 found in ‘secret’ Czech wine cellar

HEALTH

• UK Alcohol guidelines were drawn up by anti-alcohol lobbyists
• The strange effects of alcohol explained
• Alcohol And Marijuana Are Part Of The Collegiate Experience, So Talk About It

DATA

• Who Pays For Hello Vino’s Free Wine App, And Why?

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Don’t expect better prices when wine starts being sold in Chattanooga grocery stores
• Beer: The fight over where you buy it in Pennsylvania
• Canada – NB Appeals Cross-Border Liquor Decision
• Canada – NB Case Strikes Down Interprov Liquor Restrictions
• Police raid offices of Russian importer
• No more sugar-coating labels

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Is the wine industry a victim of status quo syndrome?
• Levels of consumer confusion ‘astonishing’, says industry expert

MARKETING & SALES

• Halo Effect Gives Wine Prices Wings
• Millennials Most Likely to Shop for Fun, on Impulse
• What makes a good wine bar?
• Champagne silence on sparkling Monaco podium
• Promotion for UK indies to drive Provence rosé growth
• 10 Tips to Designing the Perfect Trade Advert *Sponsored Link*

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Australian wine steals show at Vinexpo

COOL CLIMATE WINE SYMPOSIUM

• ICCWS 2016: Alistair Nesbitt’s model for identifying suitable vineyard sites in the UK
• At the International Cool Climate Wine Symposium
• ICCWS: Gary Pickering on managing green flavours in wine
• ICCWS2016: The delightful, shameful state of the English wine industry
• ICCWS marks UK wine industry’s ‘coming of age’

MEDIA MATTERS

• Winebits 440: Champagne Jayne, distributor scandal, vineyard prices
• This Might Be The Best Alcohol Themed Instagram Feed Of All Time
• In Pursuit of … the Top Five New Wine Organizations?
• Wine Dude Thinks About The Closure Of IPOB

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Moët Hennessy creates ‘Grange’ from China
• English sparkling wine ‘undervalued’, says Master of Wine
• Ask Decanter: Phenolic ripeness

WINE PEOPLE

• The Head of Raventós i Blanc Is a Rebel in the Wine World [Q&A]
• Regina Gaines: Pure Vinspiration
• Why Grower Champagne? An Interview With Angéline Templier J. Lassalle
• Argentina: The New Wave Of Malbec Producers
• Danny Meyer of Union Square Hospitality Group
• Comedian Lewis Black’s Secret Passion: Wine
• The vineyard virgins giving English wine a sparkle

WINE PLACES

• OZ: The big bang
• Nepal’s wine industry predicts boom times
• The Langhe, Piedmont where Barolo wine ‘is a piece of a farmer’s soul’
• Drink Your Way Through Austrian Wine
• Frühschoppen: The German Tradition Of Drinking Before Noon

WINE HISTORY

• Stag’s Leap Rushes to Judgment 40 Years On

WINE EDUCATION

• 26 graduate from 2016 Wine Educators Academy

WINE TOURISM

• Natural Wine Walks on the Wild Side
• Magrez targets Asia market with luxury estate tours

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Dairy crisis a lesson for wine industry

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• There is absolutely no reason for a wine gun to exist, but you’ll want one anyway

OLIVE OIL

• Spain’s Civil Guard Seizes 120 Tons of Fake Olive Oil

RIIIIIIIIIGHT … SURE, PAL

• The ice cream that cures hangovers

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

• SodaStream develops carbonator to turn sparkling water into beer
• New Mexico Is The Most Enchanting Destination In America For IPA
• Standard Knapp targets craft brewers with its ‘soft catch’ packer
• C&C continues beer expansion in China with Tennent’s distribution deal
• Size doesn’t matter, says co-founder of new multi-million pound “mega” distillery‘

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