NEWS FETCH — June 29, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Bubbly Booming: The U.S. Becomes Champagne’s Top Export Market
• The Brexit effect on Australian wine
• Westlands Water District to split top jobs amid missteps, criticism
• Hartwell Estate Vineyards found Robert Hartwell dies
• Top Weedkiller to Stay on EU Market for at Least One More Year
• No Immediate Brexit Effect on U.S. Economic Confidence
• Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs. You can too. Click to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

BREXIT

• Kerry says Brexit may not happen
• What Brexit could mean for global trade
• Brexit and Bordeaux
• Italy soldiering on post-Brexit
• This is how you can get meaningful reporting and compliance information from your business data *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• More Work for Winery Ordinance in Santa Barbara County
• Flanagan Wines Finds New Home In The Dry Creek Valley
• Napa CEO Watt leaves with reputation for teamwork and integrity
• Vacaville’s Wunder-Bar leases larger plant for foodservice equipment manufacturing
• The Essential Sonoma Wine Country Guide
• Pre-Register Now For The International Bulk Wine and Spirits Show to Get the Biggest Exhibitor Discount on launch Day*Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• Tribal water rights a component to unraveling drought on the Colorado
• Lessons on sustaining the environment during a drought
• Metro Los Angeles – one of the places Californians *do* regulate their groundwater
• Insights into the environmental impacts of cannabis agriculture
• Update on the Water Storage Investment Program

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Panama Canal Expands For New Trade Opportunities

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo shares surge after Brexit vote
• Treasury Wines blows cobwebs off St Huberts
• Denis O’Flynn to leave Pernod after 16 years

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• 2015 first growths – the offer you can refuse
• Bordeaux 2015: the new normal?
• Ultra Rare 1934 DRC On Auction At WineBid

HEALTH

• Minding Your Waistline? Fruits, Berries and a Little Wine May Help

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Did The Wine Regulators Get The Message?

DATA & TRENDS

• July 4th Food & Beverage by the Numbers

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• What is the right price to pay for a bottle of wine?
• Improving Wine Culture With Better Communication

MARKETING & SALES

• 5 shopping cart pet peeves that drive your customers away
• Brave, New Online Wine World
• Wine prices have languished in deflation for 5 years. Beer & spirits up, but less than inflation
• Positive Marketing From The Other DWI, Deutsches WeinInstitut (Wines of Germany)
• New Online Wine Shop Offers American-made Wines and Re-inventing the Online Wine Experience

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• FTC approves Ball’s acquisition of Rexam in the US

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

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

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Snapchat is slashing its ad prices for brands
• Facebook reveals a redesigned Like button for websites
• Twitter launches a dedicated app for managing business accounts

MEDIA MATTERS

• On mistaking marketing ploys for wine
• “The Spirituality of Wine”: a thoughtful, moving book

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Natural wine becomes mainstream
• She said, he said
• It’s Fizzy, It’s Delicious, It’s a Pét-Nat

WINE PEOPLE

• Paul Hobbs, the bad boy of wine
• Romania’s Robin Hood of wine
• Steve Baraglia: A tale of two valleys

WINE PLACES

• Styria’s new ideas
• 10 Things You Need To Know About Burgundy

WINE EDUCATION

• Master of Wine? I doubt it, when I can make a mistake like this in an exam

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Okanagan MP vows to continue fight to free up wine sales

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Five other grapes grown to resist the cold

EUROPE & THE UK

• Italian white wine’s journey to prominence in the U.S.
• Piper-Heidsieck to ‘evolve’ under new deputy chef de cave

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Government commits $2.5m to Mclaren Vale irrigation
• OZ: Max Allen on Morris Wines closure

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• India: Wine producers sour over move to hike excise duty

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

• Can the Tables Turn for Boston Beer Stock on Growth Plans?
• The Good And The Ugly: Beer Advertising
• Ohio Governor Says ‘Cheers’ to Beer Deregulation Bill
• Your ‘Local’ Craft Whiskey May Really Be From Canada
• July 4th Food & Beverage by the Numbers

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