NEWS FETCH — July 26, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Tapp Labels Begins Layoffs After Reduced Operations At Vancouver Plant
• Truett-Hurst Relieved That Hambrecht’s VML Winery Has Been Sold To Hunneus Vintners
• Campari Receives Interest for Villa Worth Over $330 Million
• Majestic boss Rowan Gormley hands his £7m shares bonus to staff
• V2’s Dan Leese On Chain Expansion And Opportunities In Imported Wine
• Court Denies AB 1513 Employment Law Injunction – Safe Harbor Deadline Now July 28, 2016
• CA winemakers’ push for stricter label rules fraught with unintended consequences
• Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs. You can too. Click to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Chablis prices set to soar as freak weather ruins up to half of harvest
• Top crop and export growth for South Australian wines
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Wine Country Cases receives funding
• $1.75 Million Raised at Napa’s WineaPAWlooza Event & Wine Auction
• In Lodi, to thine own terroir be true
• This Spring Mountain Estate Winery/Home Is Just Waiting For The Right Rising Star Winemaker or Chef *Sponsored Link*

DROUGHT/WATER

• About that $17 billion water project: Delta tunnels 101
• Water Insights from the ASEV Conference
• Look to the Soil for Water Supply Answers
• Algae in drinking water causes Santa Clara Valley water officials to scramble
• California’s delusional thinking on water
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DIRECT SHIPPING & PRIVATIZATION

• Moët launches one-hour Champagne delivery in London
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• WTO report says countries are increasingly restricting trade

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Amazon is conducting new drone-delivery tests in the U.K., and wants the U.S. to know about it

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Changes to the Liv-ex Indices

HEALTH

• Importance of drinking pattern on the effects of wine on health
• Scientists say drinking champagne boosts memory
• Aisling on beauty: How effective is resveratrol?

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• States Expand Sale of Beverage Alcohol in Food Stores
• Letter to the Department of Justice on Music Licensing (PDF)
• Sorting out Tennessee’s new liquor laws

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Why you can rely on wine show awards

MARKETING & SALES

• Email marketing is still relevant, ignore it at your peril
• Silence on social issues could be the kiss of death for brands

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Is wine in a can the next big thing for convenience?

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ASEV-Eastern Section Meets in St. Louis
• Four Things Learned at Riesling Rendezvous 2016
• Top Ten Tips For a Successful Brand Launch *Sponsored Link*

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Is Organic Viticulture Really Possible?
• Resurrecting the Original Sparkling Wine
• Historical Wine Grape Variety: Mission
• How to store Champagne at home
• A wine’s hook is a thunderbolt that bypasses mere words and thoughts

WINE PEOPLE

• Wine professor Denis Dubourdieu dies
• Walla Walla’s Jeff Popick retires this week from viticulture program
• Winemakers Turned Distillers
• Winemaker Marco Tinessa of Ognostro Winery (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• The Languedoc: Land of Sunshine, Wine and Golf
• Treasure Map of West Coast Syrah
• Guides to Upstate NY’s 320 wineries and wine regions

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Canadian Premiers’ Online Wine Sale Proposal Disregards Consumers’ and Producers’ Constitutional Rights
• How will wine consumers respond to the liberalising retail laws in Canada?
• New Jersey Shores Up Its Rising Wine Status
• How a Champagne-Laden Steamship Ended Up in a Kansas Cornfield
• Scientists study new crops to help Montana farmers
• San Antonio-area drinkers spent $47.3 million on alcohol in June
• vinPerdu changes its name (BC)

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• A Promising Bio-Control Solution for Vine Wood Diseases

EUROPE & THE UK

• EU clamps down on Greece wine industry raising concerns over compulsory cooperative membership
• Germany turns a corner
• On Wine and Europe

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• From ganbei to Gamay?

SOUTH AFRICA

• Realities of the Cinsaut revolution in South Africa

MARIJUANA

• No longer blowing just smoke: As Cannabis legalization spreads, so does product innovation

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

• Why Anheuser-Busch merger could help California craft breweries
• Major SABMiller investor Aberdeen rejects sweetened £79bn AB InBev takeover
• Beating Budweiser at its own game is just the beginning for craft beer
• Democratic Convention Gives Philadelphia Distillers a Chance to Shine
• Amid explosion of craft beer, breweries using tap handles to stand out

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