NEWS FETCH — July 7, 2016

TOP NEWS

• Fraud Charged in Southern Glazer’s Class Action Lawsuit
• Amazon isn’t developing its own wines…yet
• Constellation Paid $60 Million for Napa Cabernet Star Schrader
• Wine & beer e-commerce lags among Fast Moving Consumer Goods
• Craft beer in America goes flat

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• 2017: Napa Vintage – Heatwaves during the early stages
• Wonderful Nurseries Lives Up to Its “Growers First” Reputation *Sponsored Link*

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma County zoning board rejects new Healdsburg winery sought by Oakville Grocery owner
• Healdsburg: The Dry Creek General Store, established in 1881, loses permission to serve alcohol
• Here’s how bulk wine & spirits buyers can boost profits by avoiding the usual buy/sell channels and using this new sourcing tool. *Sponsored Link*

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• EU-Japan trade deal welcomed by European wine and dairy sectors

DISTRIBUTORS

• Southern-Glazers fraud lawsuit a longtime coming after years of bad behavior

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Fine wine investment: risking it all
• Beyond bling – whither fine wine?
• Wine Fraud: Which of these wines is not like the others?

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How to sample wine online

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Thinking inside the box: how cask wine became cool again
• American Wine Consumers Overwhelmingly Prefer Cork Closures
• ‘Contains Milk’: Two Words Lead Down the Rabbit Hole of Wine Labeling

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Your Social Media Marketing Is Only as Good as Your Content

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• The FAA is now refunding Americans who registered their drones

MEDIA MATTERS

• Waitrose introduces new drinks magazine
• A Brief History of French Reaction to The Wine Advocate

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Are Hand-Picked Grapes Better Than Machine-Harvested?
• Has Champagne lost its sparkle?
• Italy’s sparkling new breed of old varieties
• The world’s greatest wine?

WINE PEOPLE

• Winemaker Emma Gao on why she left France for her native China
• Sonoma County winemaking power couple make wine for Lasseter, Gloria Ferrer
• Stephan Kandler of Chateau Tourril

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Debate Over Wine Labeling Continues in Canada

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Climate Change Is Putting English Sparkling Wine on the Map

EUROPE & THE UK

• After 500 years, women are making wine in Madeira
• Northern Piedmont’s Renaissance
• A German Wine Revolution

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Chinese wine market: Shift in consumption
• Chinese customs reveal details of RMB 500m smuggling case

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• A New Beer Might Actually Quench Your Thirst
• Researchers discover new species of lager yeast