NEWS FETCH — September 19, 2016

TOP NEWS

• People spending more time eating & drinking: opportunity for the trade
• Aubrey McClendon Wine Collection Brings $8.44 Million at Auction
• Wine likely boosted Napa County exports rise in 2015
• Excuse me, just wondering, how long has this bottle been open?
• Man fends off bear attack with wine bottle
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Fires and Hail Torment Winemakers in France’s Languedoc-Roussillon
• Drought Impacts New York Grape Harvest
• Spanish wine producers see opportunity in the on-trade ahead of promising harvest
• Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs. You can too. Click to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa red-tags Bremer soil-hauling vineyard creation project
• Dusty Baker sees similarities in his team, wine and baseball
• Large warehouses roll into Napa, Solano counties
• Napa Valley Vintners’ program helps preserve fish habitat
• Raising Spirits in Wine Country
• Howell High on the hill
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CHARLES BANKS RETROSPECTIVE

• Investor Interview: Charles Banks
• Inside Charles Banks’ $200 Million Wine Portfolio
• Meet The VC Who Actually Makes Money Investing In Wine Brands
• Charles Banks: Life After Screaming Eagle
• The Evolution of Charles Banks

DROUGHT/WATER

• Thunderstorms possible across Southern California early this week; “The Blob” returns to the North Pacific
• State’s call for more water for fish extends to the northern rivers next
• Ecogeomorphology: A Transformative Expedition Education
• International Bulk Wine and Spirits Show Speakers Announced. Learn all about Bulk Wine, Bulk Spirits, Contract Bottling and Private Label Business.*Sponsored Link*

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• UK Drinks Industry in the Box Seat After Brexit?
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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo preparing to slash “hundreds” of UK jobs
• Is gravity finally pulling Boston Beer’s stock down to reality?

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Wolf Blass pops the cork – Australian wine giant moves on expansion deal in Thailand
• French Wine Firm Buys Majority Stake in South Africa’s Ken Forrester
• BRIEF-Kuaijishan Shaoxing Wine completes fully acquiring two wine companies

DISTRIBUTORS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Landmark prices mark 42nd annual Nederburg Auction

HEALTH

• Beer ‘makes people more sociable’, says study

DATA & TRENDS

• Here are 3 of 13 compelling reasons why you have GOT to use infographics to get your point across

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• More wine retailer foolishness
• Tasting’s Gold Standard

MARKETING & SALES

• People are the New Media

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• It’s Tough to Make High-Quality Native Content
• US Internet Users More Attuned to TV Content

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• 8 Alcohol Jobs You Never Knew Existed

MEDIA MATTERS

• How To Grow Your Blog: Tips For Wineries, Distilleries and Breweries
• Sour Grapes review – vintage wine scam

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Tim Wildman MW: 6 most disruptive trends in Australian wine. Part 1
• Are you showing too much skin?
• A century of Barolo vintages — Fontanafredda
• Know A Wine Just By Looking At The Color
• Grape Clones: The X-Men Of The Wine World
• Understanding wine aromas
• Roald Dahl’s Wines of the Unexpected
• Wine Legend: Dom Pérignon 1975
• There Aren’t Really 18 Different Grapes In Châteauneuf-du-Pape
• SeVein Vineyard rises as some of best grapes in Great Northwest

WINE PEOPLE

• Italian Winemaker Stanko Radikon Dies at 62
• Santa Rita announces new winemaker

WINE PLACES

• Top five wine regions you didn’t know existed
• Cannonau: The Heart of Sardinia
• Welcome to the new world of English and Welsh wines
• ‘Burgundian approach’ now adopted in Priorat
• Big country biodynamics in South Africa
• In the Douro: Quinta do Crasto
• Steve Baraglia: A tale of two valleys
• Stalking the Wild and Indigenous in the New and the Old World
• Chinese wines on rise as Grace Vineyards
• Victoria Moore: red dawn for Chinese wine

EUROPE & THE UK

• Waitrose plans to open more in-store wine bars
• Licensing Act backed by industry chiefs
• Alcohol brands should be allowed to sponsor sporting events, says cider boss

DOWN UNDER

• Liquor trusts a two-edged sword
• Wine tax rebate reform to squeeze some out
• Nugan Estate sells Cookoothama vineyard

OLIVE OIL

• European Commission publishes the International Agreement on Olive Oil

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Bickford’s Group to open new $6.6-million Renmark distillery
• Surrey distillery’s Juniper Green Gin certified as 100% organic
• Breweries to make beer using Boston river water
• Oktoberfest blighted by added security measures
• Cider becomes big business for Palmyra winemakers
• Bruges beer pipeline set to be switched on
• Apple cider shows it can be as innovative as its fruity cousins