NEWS FETCH — November 14, 2016

TOP NEWS

• New Zealand wineries checking damage after 7.5 magnitude earthquake
• Santa Barbara’s biggest water supply is almost empty
• Accolade Wines agrees to buy Fine Wine Partners
• There is a £31 billion black hole in the UK economy because of ‘sin taxes’
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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Wine Harvest Report 2016: Napa Valley’s Cabernet Run Continues
• OZ: Riverland wine grape growers still assessing the damage after devastating hail storm
• Indian summer and 2015 reserves help to bolster troubled Loire harvest
• Burgundy – gloom and beyond
• Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs. You can too. Click to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Transit agency considers allowing beer, wine ads on Sacramento buses and trains. What about pot?
• Multi-Color, Tapp consolidate Napa wine label printing
• Kirsty Cringan Joins Trinchero As Chief Financial Officer
• Zepponi joins Cuvaison Estate Wines as president/CEO
• Napa’s Vanishing Varietals
• California taps into bright young things of harvest: Nouveau wines
• Raisin Bargaining Assn. turns ‘50’ amid shrinking industry
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REAL ESTATE

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

DROUGHT/WATER

• A Delta Renewed
• New Report Offers Framework for California Delta Restoration

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Recession Watchlist: Constellation Brands
• Treasury outlines positive 2016 with strong growth to come

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Why IPO?: You need the public market’s tough love

DISTRIBUTORS

• Top 10 Tips To Present Your Wines to US Importers *Sponsored Link*

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Getting hammered: Fine wine auctions at Christie’s
• Chateau Palmer ’61 Fetches $53,775 at Hart Bordeaux Wine Auction
• Wine Fraud Associate Charged Over Sales

HEALTH

• Moderate alcohol intake may slow good cholesterol’s decline
• A beer a day helps prevent stroke and heart disease
• Heart disease risk may increase in seniors with moderate drinking

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• High Visibility Makes Wine Crime Stand Out
• Can You Buy Alcohol On Thanksgiving?
• Colors: In Alcohol Beverages

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Can non-experts distinguish anything about wine?
• Thanksgiving wine snobbery exposed!
• How many bottles to buy?

MARKETING & SALES

• How A Wine Startup Marketed Honesty To Build A Multi-Million Dollar Brand
• Pimping products produces prime promoter profits on social media
• 5 Post-Election Holiday Spending Myths, Busted

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• 79 Percent of Online Americans Use Facebook
• How A Wine Startup Marketed Honesty To Build A Multi-Million Dollar Brand
• Facebook buys CrowdTangle, the tool publishers use to win the internet
• Snapchat Spectacles are here and they are ridiculously fun
• Facebook launches analytics dashboard to track Messenger bot performance
• Snapchat just moved its Spectacles vending machine to a new location in Northern California

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Are wines sweeter when they are younger?
• From Pomerol to Médoc: A guide to French wines
• Move Over Malbec, Bonarda is Argentina’s Next Red

WINE PEOPLE

• The Charm of Bardolino and the Benazzoli Sisters
• Karl Kaiser and the birth of the modern Canadian wine industry
• Uncorked: Marielle Grossetete
• Haley Moore of Stock & Bones (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• St Martin’s in Kutjevo, an 800 Year Croatian Wine Story Told in 6 Barrels
• Hiding from the Nazis in the Hospices de Beaune
• Visiting Cantina Santa Maria La Palma In Sardinia

WINE EDUCATION

• Swiss Wine becomes Supporter of Institute of Masters of Wine
• Tips for the Master of Wine theory exam: Timing and writing

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• What should British Columbia’s identity be as a wine region?
• New Jersey wine-making is going strong

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• How green is your booze?

EUROPE & THE UK

• Wine wholesalers and distributors in “good shape” to overcome Brexit uncertainty
• Brexit was a slap in the face
• Alcohol issues cited in JRC fraud summary
• Rioja embraces singularity
• Scotland: Wine could win big if minimum unit pricing is implemented
• Beychevelle Becomes Latest Bordeaux Estate to Add New Winery
• Further insights into the character of Tim Brown (aka Aaron Timmer Brown) who trousered the Paul Kimmage Fund.
• The Porto Wine Brotherhood (annoying survey alert)

DOWN UNDER

• NZ wineries: ‘It feels like we are sitting on jelly’

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• The importance of brand-building in the Chinese wine market

LATIN AMERICA

• Global warming turns Chile’s cold south into wine country
• Malbec and beyond: What’s next for Argentina?

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

• Utah stands virtually alone in rule banning sales of full-strength beer at grocery stores
• When Should You Send Your Beer Back Where It Came From?
• Man dead after gas leak at Carlsberg brewery
• Legal clarity is overdue for Scotch whisky ‘finishing’
• Should This Brewer Cash In on Whiskey’s Popularity?

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