NEWS FETCH — November 2, 2016

TOP NEWS

• California Ag Biz Loses Equivalent to Ebay Being Wiped Out, and it Could Get Worse
• Welcome! Major wine industry pub covers the surreality of Duarte’s WOTUS Woes
• Chapter 24 Wines Purchases Witness Tree and Five Other Vineyards in Oregon’s Willamette Valley
• The Sideways Effect is Ending. Will Merlot Prices Rise?
• Feds Award Over $9M For Wine, Rum and More
• Chinese e-commerce market worth more than US and UK combined
• Americans’ Confidence in Economy Steady
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Wine Vs Grape Pricing
• OR harvest: August Rush
• CA table grape markets steady
• OZ: Early wine grape market signals promising for 2017 vintage
• Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs. You can too. Click to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Valley Grapegrowers to present Rootstock on Tuesday
• Here Comes the Petaluma Gap AVA
• Grower Vows To Fight Clean Water Act Violation Suit
• With Lokoya, Jackson Family Wines has a new Napa estate to go with its high-end wine
• A unorthodox winemaker’s dream: An original California wine
• Be part of ProWein 2017! We’re the world’s largest international wine industry meeting for professionals from viticulture, production, trade and gastronomy – 6,000 exhibitors are waiting for you! Click now to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

REAL ESTATE

• Secluded Carmel Valley Estate Winery & Vineyard, $1.3 million. Contact Katie Somple, WineryX Real Estate * Sponsored Link

DROUGHT/WATER

• CA water conservation improved in September but is still worse than in 2015
• Interpretation of a revenue and water use chart
• Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Sacramento water agencies work together, adapting to drought and planning for a future of growth
• Study blames high temperatures for low 2015 snowpack
• Do Sonoma County’s big October rains mean a wet winter’s on tap?

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex 100 gains 3.6% in October
• Glass Wine Cellars Are Having a Moment

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• OK: State Question 792 proposes major alcohol law changes
• New York man charged in Delaware alcohol smuggling operation

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Millennials Vs. Baby Boomers: Raise A Glass To Purchasing Preferences
• In Defense Of White Wine (Thoughts On Expert Scores And Red Wine Bias)
• Instagram has dramatically changed UK’s eating habits – and that’s no bad thing
• A Letter to a Young Asian Sommelier

MARKETING & SALES

• Alibaba will demolish all of America’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday online sales in just one day
• What’s in a Name? Everything. (PDF)
• When A Review Brings Down A Brand
• How troll culture is making brands overly cautious
• How to Effectively Sell Using Social Media and Content Marketing

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Loire Wine Festival in France serving wine from the ‘udder’

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Eastern Winery Exposition Begins Registration
• Wine and Food Tourism Conference to unify role players in South Africa
• The Third Edition of wine2wine Heads Back to Europe

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Twitter introduces customer service bots in direct messages
• Instagram is finally going to make it easier to shop for the products you see in your feed

PAYMENTS

• Square has provided more than $1 billion in loans to businesses
• Square tells investors that 2016 is going better than expected

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• 8 ways your wine business can avoid, survive unfair-competition actions

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine blogging: A closer look at the anatomy of a wine blog post
• You don’t have to be the best: you just have to be famous

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Hand Harvesting’s Rage Against the Machines
• How food companies can sneak bias into scientific research
• ‘Unknown’ Wines
• You won’t believe this wine snob’s policy on backwash

WINE PEOPLE

• Popular b.f.t. organiser, Ben Campbell-Johnston, dies
• Trends come and go, but Hugh Johnson is a steady force for excellence

WINE TOURISM

• Explore Monterey County on a California Wines Road Trip

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Beyond beer: Wollersheim Winery does Wisconsin proud

ACADEMIA

• Wine experts come to Okanagan College to offer an international perspective on wine marketing

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Australian Women Grow The Wine Business And Save The Planet, Too

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• A new method for establishing the origin of tannins

EUROPE & THE UK

• Wetherspoon’s boss: we could drop European brands over Brexit bullying
• UK – first sake brewery approved

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: The New Supermarket Booze Barns Racing Each Other To The Bottom
• OZ: ‘Red dawn’ for wine grape price

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chinese wine consumption to soar

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentine winery Pascual Toso looks to innovation

SOUTH AFRICA

• Trade reponds to claims of ‘slavery’ in SA vineyards

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• ‘Smart stopper’ claims to save you from off wine
• ‘Vinfusion’ device allows novices to blend their own wine

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

• Which U.S. Cities Have The Most Microbreweries Per Capita?
• The Year Hard Cider Won The US Presidency
• More Green Ahead, Say Hops Farmers
• The Texas Beer Business For Beginners
• A Pioneer of the Minneapolis Brewing Boom Will Close

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