NEWS FETCH — June 9, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Why Constellation Brands Wants to Spin Off a Key Business Line
• Bronco’s Damon Franzia on value-based wines, millennials and the hyper-competitive market
• Study Links Irrigation to Inaccurate Climate Perception
• PA Man admits to fraud in bogus wine, olive oil business
• Welcome to China’s $1 Trillion Club. Now for the Hard Part
• This is how Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY

• Big, healthy clusters promise a turn-around in production for Paso Robles grower
• Delta grower expects his 2016 production levels to be similar to last year at best
• Loire frost may cause wine shortages
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Global Wine Vision 2016 conference coming to Santa Rosa in December
• How to Get Your Beverage Brand aboard Cruises*Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Groups respond to DWR and Reclamation’s objection to the request for extension
• Attorneys discuss upcoming California Water Fix hearing

DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Pennsylvania to Allow Direct to Consumer Sales of Wine

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Tesco tipped to announce sale of Giraffe and Turkish retail arm

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• How to Invest in Wine
• Bordeaux 2015: the increases are increasing
• Beausejour Duffau 2015 released
• Cos d’Estournel 2015 released at a “top-tier” price

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• California Assembly GO Committee Passes SB 819 to Ban Powdered Alcohol

MARKETING & SALES

• A history of advertisers missing the mark with women

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Corks versus the alternatives

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Top Ten Tips For a Successful Brand Launch *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Measuring social success beyond the ‘like’
• Twitter denies security breach as report claims 32 million passwords have been leaked on the dark web

PAYMENTS

• Apple Pay competitor CurrentC is the disaster everyone thought it would be
• Facebook is testing social commerce payments in Southeast Asia

MEDIA MATTERS

• 2016 Born Digital Awards – details with 7th July as closing date

MATTERS OF TASTE

• What Are Wine Lees? (Sur Lie Explained)

WINE PEOPLE

• Now: wine inspired by craft beer
• Meet the French Hipster Winemakers Changing the Natural Wine Scene
• A Spy Who Loved Wine

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Pledges Cooperative Approach to Implementing Historic Liquor Reform Changes
• OR: Duck Pond Cellars hires Napa winemaker
• PA: Reaction to liquor reform mixed among Valley vintners

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Signs of potassium deficiency are in the leaves

EUROPE & THE UK

• GCA publishes new retail guidelines
• Investors Target English Sparkling Wine to Challenge Champagne
• Portuguese still wine producers’ patience is paying off
• Why Burgundy Is Still the Greatest Place for Wine
• The Next Stars of Burgundy
• Bordeaux before the French Revolution
• Ageability key to Soave’s success

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine project to investigate yield variability funded by state government
• $10,000 Tasmanian Fellowship supports sustainable winegrowing

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Four years since Ningxia and China put itself on the wine map

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Victims of homicide, kidnapping to appear on wine bottles (NC)

MARIJUANA

• This Is Everything We Get Wrong When We Talk About Weed
• Canada Could Be To Cannabis What France Is To Wine

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

• Why beer belongs in the same conversation as wine when it comes to fine dining
• Breweries to be able to sell full-strength beer on premises (OK)
• SF’s soda advertising law on hold as industry appeals in court
• How to make effective online ads for your wine, beer and spirits business
• Craft Tea Is On Its Way To A Kettle Near You

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