NEWS FETCH – June 2, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Rising wine & grape prices could lead to buyer fatigue
• Brown-Forman buys The BenRiach Distillery for £281 million
• The Supreme Court’s secret to civility? Lots of good food and wine
• Vino without veritas?
• A Big Merger May Flatten America’s Beer Market
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• North Coast 2016 grape crop seems normal at critical juncture
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Latour owner re-names Araujo to Eisele Vineyard Estate
• Groundbreaking for SSU’s new wine center
• Vintners gearing up for 36th annual Auction Napa Valley
• Cal-OSHA investigating death of worker at BottleRock site
• Napa Smith Brewery to expand
• Thinking Outside the Lines in 2016: The Barbera Festival and the Rhone Rangers Celebration
• 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

• How Do We Sustainably Manage the Delta’s Fish?
• Analysis of California WaterFix Potential Effects Submitted to State Water Resources Control Board

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Trans-Pacific Partnership Supporters Pin Hopes on Lame-Duck Vote
• The German Farmer Left Cold After a Beer With Obama
• Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s the Checklist *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bordeaux 2015: Release overload swamps merchants
• Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 rises for sixth consecutive month

HEALTH

• Moderate Wine Consumption May Help Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• What You Should Know About Arkansas and Kansas Label Renewals

MARKETING & SALES

• These 4 concerns can keep large numbers of users from your web site and online shopping cart
• 10 Tips to Designing the Perfect Trade Advert *Sponsored Link*

MEDIA MATTERS

• “Money, Taste & Wine” Honored as 2016 “Best in the World” Wine Writing
• A New Book From Dick Rosano ~ The Secret of Altamura
• Birthday card wine wisdom

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Exploring Israel’s Wines
• Do Organic Wines Age Well?
• Barberas From Piedmont Defy Conventional Wisdom
• Cool Climate Wine Focus Shifts to Canada
• Pit bulls and Pinot Noir, or how IPOB changed the way I think

WINE PLACES

• Chinese Moguls Are Learning How to Make Bordeaux the Hard
• Champagne: ‘gearing up’ in Greater China
• The new taste of Monterey County

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

• A Big Merger May Flatten America’s Beer Market
• Why Is the Smithsonian Collecting 50 Years’ Worth of Beer Artifacts?
• The Oral History Of Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
• Thornbridge and Brooklyn unite to create new beer
• Newly Formed Milestone Brands LLC Quickly Expands Portfolio with Acquisition of American Born Moonshine
• Smart Beer, New York’s First Organic Beer Company, Introduces New IPA
• International Spirit & Beverage Group, Board of Directors Agree to Restrictive Covenant Agreement and Stock Buy-Back Program to Reduce Shares of Company’s Common Stock
• Long Beard Breweries acquires 5 percent of a popular Long Island beer tour

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