NEWS FETCH — October 19, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Sill Family acquires Ardente Estate Winery
• Stink bug spreads across Washington state
• USDA announces $62.5 million in grants for speciality crop farmers
• U.S. Economic Confidence Index Flat at -10
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• 2016 California Wine Harvest Report
• Why 2016 Was the Best Year for Ohio Vineyards in a Long, Long Time
• Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs. You can too. Click to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma County Winery Use Permits, Event Restrictions, and DTC
• ROOTSTOCK 2016 Presented by Napa Valley Grapegrowers
• Sonoma County Winegrowers Name New Sustainability Manager
• A vision of California with 2 meters of sea level rise
• Oak Park convenience stores could soon resume beer and wine sales
• Sculpture of Robert and Margrit Mondavi will preside over CIA at Copia

REAL ESTATE

• OZ: Calabria make large Riverina buy
• This 5.4M Healdsburg Estate Comes With a Custom Wine Cave
• NZ coastal winery, Sailfish Cove, on the market
• Secluded Carmel Valley Estate Winery & Vineyard, $1.3 million. Contact Katie Somple, WineryX Real Estate * Sponsored Link

DROUGHT/WATER

• OID Suit Sets Ugly Precedent
• Are farmers and San Francisco up the same river?
• California should start water restrictions now
• DWR Releases Changes to State’s Groundwater Basin Boundaries
• Speeding up innovation in the water industry
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RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• Recycled drinking water: The next frontier

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• A History Lesson For The U.K.’s Free Trade Aims

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Tesco price row outlines post-Brexit landscape for retailers

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Burgundy Wine Producer Maison Champy Sold

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Is Bordeaux bouncing back?
• This Is the New Way to Store Your Wine
• Penfolds Releases a $185,000 Bottle
• Zachys Wine Auctions’ The Vault Part II: 100% Sold, Realizing $5,558,254 and Exceeding Pre-Sale High Estimate

HEALTH

• PCOS: Red wine compound remedies abnormal hormone levels
• This Might Be Why You Get Migraines From Wine and Chocolate
• Limited wine consumption has health benefits
• The skinny on ‘skinny’ alcohol

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• What Foods Does America Tweet About Most—and What Can That Tell Us?

CUSTOMER RELATIONS

• Customer Satisfaction Without Engagement — Is It Enough?

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Southeastern Wine Symposium Eyes Marketing
• Top Ten Tips For a Successful Brand Launch *Sponsored Link*

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Among Affluents, Millennials Spend the Most Time Online
• How to Make Money on Twitter
• Facebook adds scheduling for Facebook Live broadcasts
• Snapchat wants to stop sharing ad revenue with its media partners
• 3 ways chatbots deliver ROI for customer service
• Instagram adds Stories to search and explore tab

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Succession plans can assure farms stay in the family
• Improve your productivity to address workforce challenges

MEDIA MATTERS

• Tasting notes: The lice of wine writing?
• Wine Blogging 101: What college students asked me about wine and blogging
• Wine Book Takes Aim At Bad Somms, Overpriced Wines And Wine By The Glass Trend
• ‘Tangled Vines’, wine’s dark side, now in paperback
• Wine Spectator Celebrates 40 Years with Commemorative Issue and Website

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Oak barrels: What they do to wine
• Five reasons why Provence rosé is like Champagne
• Rookie Mistakes
• Riesling a racy, floral white worthy of respect

WINE PEOPLE

• Cauble has a taste for expanding wine business

WINE PLACES

• The A-to-Zs of Greece and its Wine
• NM: Wineries near Albuquerque worth the trip, especially for bubbly fans

WINE TOURISM

• New York to invest $55M in tourism

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Charles Smith reshapes Washington wine industry
• WA: CBC plots $10M culinary move to Kennewick waterfront

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Reduce photosynthesis, reduce alcohol
• Linking carbohydrate reserves, climate and agricultural practices
• Analytical Flavor Systems CEO: ‘We’ve made flavor a predictive measurement’

EUROPE & THE UK

• The Effects Of Brexit – Yes, Wine Prices In The UK Are Going Up
• Three Ways to Beat Champagne’s Climate-Change Problem
• London’s ‘naked’ restaurant to go permanent
• Don’t discount the discounters on prosecco this Christmas
• Remit of supermarket watchdog may be widened

DOWN UNDER

• Australia and New Zealand wineries lead sustainable energy production with major solar farm installations

AROUND THE GLOBE

• The Vineyard on the Israeli-Palestinian Border

OLIVE OIL

• Olive Oil Sommelier Course Debuts in New York

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

• Is the FDA Trying to Kill Craft Beer?
• Why Craft Liquor Is the Next Big Thing
• Craft beer sales show signs of slowing
• Is the craft brand trend healthy for big retailers and manufacturers?
• The Secret Relationship Between Brewers And Farmers

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