TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• TWE announce further winery closures in Australian and NZ
• Southern, Glazer’s Sign Letter Of Intent To Form Strategic Alliance
• Why Diageo is a Good Deal for Treasury
• U.S. Consumers' Holiday Spending Intentions Best Since 2007
• USGS slams study's claim of 99.9% chance of large L.A. earthquake
• The Business of Wine. Moving beyond Excel. *Sponsored Link*

• Wine bodies say Australian industry will benefit from ChAFTA

• Down-sized North Coast wine grape crop offers growers an upside
• An average to smaller San Joaquin Valley wine grape harvest is followed by continued vineyard removals
• Santa Cruz Mountains crop comes in light on tonnage but heavy on flavor
• Puget Sound: Island grape harvest breaks records
• CA Foothills Harvest Promising For Premium Wines
• Slovenia expects ‘exceptional’ 2015 vintage
• Bordeaux 2015 behind the scenes – part one
• NZ wines to hold value despite lower harvest
• Who Are The World’s Top 10 Wine Exporters? Depends (On Who You Ask)

• Deadlocked commission denies approval for Girard winery
• Calif. Dept. of Food & Ag. Awards Specialty Crop Block Grant to Lake County Winegrape Commission
• Coors Family Enters Napa Valley Wine Scene
• Lodi's fascinating history as a Johnny-come-lately wine region
• Chalone Doldrums
• Larkmead Vineyards is Raising $50,000 for the Valley Fire Relief Fund
• Innovative Buyer-Supplier Match Making Program to Launch at USA Trade Tasting *Sponsored Link*

• California Water Commission adopts Groundwater Basin Boundary Regulation
• Water management, economy, and the environment: How is California doing after four years of drought?
• Congressional Republicans demand plan for collecting El Niño water
• Groundwater: Farmers employ methods meant to boost supply
• Why a dry California will still grow a lot of food
• San Joaquin County remains opposed to 'Water Fix'
• Studying 2015 El Niño event as never before

• 10 Free Website Usability Tools to Improve Your Customer Experience

• EU court rules that Bitcoin exchanges don’t have to pay taxes

• Book Review: Hungry For Wine: Seeing the World Through the Lens of a Wine Glass by Cathy Huyghe
• How To Actually Use The New Oxford Companion To Wine
• What Does It Take to Be a Great Wine Reference Book Today?
• Wine Curmudgeon Shortlisted for the Born Digital Wine awards

• Wine Wars and Presidential Politics
• Extreme Decanting
• You Should Drink Beaujolais Wine All of the Time
• You Probably Didn’t Know That Your White Wine Farts
• Filtering wine one way doesn't mean it's the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

• Homage to master writer Cole Danehower, and the Northwest wine community

• Hungarian Wine Regions: Szekszárd And Its Elegant Reds
• Great Northwest Destination Winery: Mission Hill Family Estate
• Celebrating the wines of St. Helena AVA

• Wine training remains an ‘untapped market’

• Champagne tourist figures up 15% following UNESCO listing

• Wine boom in Ohio grows
• History in the making during Texas Wine Month
• How the Finger Lakes are making great red wines
• Votto Vines Importing Named One of the Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America

• Enology certificate students attend first camp at WSU Wine Science Center

• Becoming a B Corp: only for the sustainable elite?

• Mobile bottling lines help small wineries save space, aggravation
• New Method Turns Tons of Wine Waste into Useful Chemicals
• B.C. scientists research yeast to boost wine

• UK: Rising beer sales fail to halt supermarket slide
• The Champagne Industry Is Trying to Throw Major Shade at Prosecco

• Assistance available for Australian winegrowers in drought
• Central Otago ‘on same journey as Burgundy’
• Australians are giving up local bubbles for champagne
• OZ: McWilliam’s moves to champion emerging cool-climate wine regions
• NZ: Wineries, growers toast industry advocate

• India's wine industry flowing faster

• South Africa: Ernie Els Wines Takes On Investment Partner To Drive Ambitious Growth Agenda
• Race and wine in South Africa

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 61 new links including the following top headlines:

• Craft Beer is Booming but Some Brewers Worry About the Future
• What creates consumers’ responses to beer?
• 10 Brews To Watch In The Anheuser-Busch InBev SABMiller deal
• When Alcohol Wholesaling Starts to Look Like “The Godfather”
• University of Kentucky threatens local distillery over logo use
• Is Austin’s craft beer market saturated?

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