NEWS FETCH — July 5, 2016

TOP NEWS

• TWE dumps 12 cheap US wine brands but refuses to name them
• Wildly speculating about the mystery brands that Treasury just punted off their roster
• How Much Did Wineries Really Make in 2015?
• Delta islands sale put back on hold
• Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs. You can too. Click to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Chablis prices to rise as weather hits 2016 vintage
• El Niño sees Argentine harvest drop 25%
• Georgia exports 44% percent more wine to 40 countries, earning $46.6m
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Justin Vineyards to start repair work after cutting down thousands of oaks
• Want to save Califiornia agriculture from climate change? It’s time for a carbon tax
• Napa & Silicon valleys and visionaries
• Napa County looks to residents, farms, business for carbon-cutting
• Seeking “leverage” with Napa County, Yountville keeps Chandon annexation on the table
• Cordant and Nelle Wines find new home
• Wine Women launches Marketing Forum on July 19th
• Pre-Register Now For The International Bulk Wine and Spirits Show to Get the Biggest Exhibitor Discount on launch Day*Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• How California Could Reinvent the Water Sector
• Fighting Drought Will Be a Long-Term Battle
• The abandoned plan that could have saved America from drought
• California needs groundwater protection now
• Water is for fighting over in Monterey

BREXIT

• Wine producer Australian Vintage says Brexit to hurt profit
• Brexit threatens French wine exports
• Brexit uncertainty causes closures and U-turns in the on-trade
• Wine wait on Brexit: Exporters assessing impact on OZ wine sales to UK, Europe

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• The brand without land

DISTRIBUTORS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex 1000 Index gains 3.4% in June
• Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 rises 2.1% in June
• Jefford on Monday: Just get on with it

HEALTH

• Dutch courage is a myth: Alcohol linked to anxiety
• Does Bubbly Actually Get You Drunker Faster?
• What are the risks of drinking before you know you’re pregnant?

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Legal Challenge To AB 1513 Filed. Deadline to file for Safe Harbor protections extended to July 18, 2016
• How the U.S. & Canada Almost Destroyed Wine

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How To Join The Most Exclusive Wine Club In The World
• A Wine of One’s Own? They’ll Drink to That
• How much should you pay for a bottle of Champagne?

MARKETING & SALES

• Seriously, Who is Your Customer?
• Shopping Cart Throw-down: Which Ecommerce Platform Reigns Supreme?
• Georgian Wine Marketing: A Success Story, Or Not Yet?
• Does advertising even work any more?

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ASEV-Eastern Section to hold annual meeting July 18-21 in St. Louis, MO
• DIRECT 2016 | Event Recap
• Top Ten Tips For a Successful Brand Launch *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Bibendum app re-launch aiming to become the Instagram of the wine world
• If you’re complaining about Facebook’s news feed changes, you’re missing its true marketing potential
• How Facebook’s #Friendmageddon will affect publishers
• A Complete Guide to Influencer Marketing

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• 8 Tips For Launching A Career In Food And Wine

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine’s Brexit
• Synthetic Wine – Even Better Than the Real Thing?
• Going Native on Independence Day
• Must-Drink Grapes from Greece
• Tasting Culture Through Wine-Drinking Customs
• Riesling Grape – Climatic, Winery Influence, Most important regions
• Grenache benefits from move to medium-bodied reds
• The Differences Between Prosecco and Champagne

WINE PEOPLE

• Dubourdieu – man of the year
• Wine Expert and Author Jeff Schiller
• Victoria Kulinich Bats for Napa Cab
• Q&A: Victor de la Serna, Finca Sandoval
• How a teetotaller Jesuit Brother became a winemaker honoured by the Queen
• Meet the new Gosset cellar master
• Charles Smith, the lion of Walla Walla
• Proust Q&A: Gilles Besse
• Mariel Wega of a.kitchen + bar, Philadelphia (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Summer road trips with wine as a destination
• Lenné Estate turns peril into peerless Pinot (OR)
• What I love (and hate) about Sicily
• Inside the Trump winery

WINE TOURISM

• What you need to know before you plan a winery visit

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Travesty, Disaster, and Moral Apocalypse in Tennessee
• Learning Willamette, one step at a time

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Electronic nose smells pesticides, nerve gas

EUROPE & THE UK

• For the wealthy, a chance to make their own wine in Bordeaux
• Muscadet Revolution: New Rules, New Grapes
• Move over France: English sparkling wine competing in quality
• Vatican Priests & Nuns Are Drowning In Wine
• Gaja Returns to Barbaresco

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: $3 million to protect vineyards from smoke
• OZ: Changes may cause job cuts
• OZ: Teen winemakers share the fruits of their labour

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• From ‘failure’ to success, a case study of wine in China
• Red wine worth RM3.74mil seized
• A ‘world-class’ wine born near Shangri-La

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Remove a Cork Stuck Inside a Wine Bottle With a Ribbon

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

• Hard Soda’s Rise Has Everything To Do With Our Nostalgia For What We Drank As Children
• “Better Beer” Cools Down In 2016, As Craft, Imports See Growth Slow In First Half
• High-gravity beer chaser to follow grocery wine sales in Memphis and Tennessee
• Craft distillery industry booming in Colorado
• Dutch courage is a myth: Alcohol linked to anxiety

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