NEWS FETCH — January 27, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Wine Shipping Report Reveals Industry Transformation
• English sparkling has overtaken Cava
• Nearly half of California no longer in a drought
• Global wine supply balancing out
• Empathy for Wine Consumers
• Charter Oak Winery doubled its production without doubling its costs. You can too. Click to learn how. *Sponsored Link*

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Southern Hemisphere’s 2017 Vintage Looks Good
• Australia’s finest wines achieve record value in 2016
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma seeks to honor Chinese laborers who shaped wine industry
• Calexit proponents can begin collecting voter signatures for the 2018 ballot
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DROUGHT/WATER

• Folsom Lake at just 40 percent capacity despite recent rains
• Why Santa Barbara’s largest reservoir is still mostly empty after all those storms
• Feds give OK to hold back more Lake Mendocino water
• California Water Diverters Scramble to Satisfy New Reporting Rules
• Westlands’ irrigation drainage deal gets extended for one year so Congress can act
• The effects of water project operations on juvenile salmon survival in the Delta
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PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Tesco to acquire wholesaler Booker Group in £3.7bn deal
• Treasury Wine drives big jump in Australia’s wine sales to China
• Constellation’s “asset-light sourcing strategy” boosts return on total assets above wine industry averages
• Diageo assures prices won’t rise post Brexit
• Diageo receiving ‘tremendous’ support from May
• LVMH sounds note of caution after turning in record results

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Burgundy: Tension mounts over Corton hill’s ‘mystery buyer’

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Post-Brexit trade deal with Trump will take years not days
• OZ: Wine industry cautious about free trade headwinds

DISTRIBUTORS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Talking Trade: Bordeaux bounces back, 2014 in focus

DATA & TRENDS

• Wineries start the new year off nervous

HEALTH

• This bag of chips can sense if you’ve been drinking and call you an Uber
• 13 reasons you need to drink more wine
• Recent study links alcohol to increased melanoma risk

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Using Facebook to achieve reach and engagement for your content campaign
• YouTube Shows Little Sign of Old Age
• Twitter is replacing the Moments tab with a new Explore tab instead
• Despite the hype, more than 30 percent of brand accounts are dormant on Snapchat

PAYMENTS

• PayPal continues to see strong revenue growth

MATTERS OF TASTE

• On wine. A Tragedy
• Aussie Grenache can age better than Shiraz

WINE PEOPLE

• Meet the Who’s Who of Wine Cool
• The Proust Q&A: Rodolphe Peters
• The Trouble with Chardonnay; an Interview with Matthew Rorick

WINE PLACES

• Château Palmer: Dancing to its own tune
• Mas de Daumas Gassac embraces horsepower

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• How to Match the Fence to Your Vineyard

EUROPE & THE UK

• Alain Fouquet French Cooperage names Farmer as sales representative
• ‘Sussex Fizz’ latest in regional approach shaping English and Welsh wine industry
• UK: Alternative varieties and affordable luxury among key trends revealed in Jascots on-trade report

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Yalumba signs off Trade Mark battle

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• India is a baby when it comes to wine consumption

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Synthetic DNA could be the next tech breakthrough

OLIVE OIL

• Cannabis-Infused Olive Oil Goes on Sale in U.S.

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• The name left off the ‘craft’ label: Walmart
• How the Government Is Saving Craft Alcohol