TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Global wine production up 2% in 2015
• Italy Reclaims Crown as World's #1 Wine Producer
• US prepares for 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris
• French wine industry's love affair with pesticides blamed for worker health problems
• Wastewater injection in the San Joaquin Valley threatens farmland
• The Business of Wine. Moving beyond Excel. *Sponsored Link*

• Bordeaux and Bordeaux Superieur 2015 -- "A Great Vintage"
• Alsace growers see promise of greatness in 2015 vintage
• Bordeaux 2015 harvest and the rule of five
• Pénedes predicts healthy vintage

• What if Reverie were in supervisors' backyard?
• Too Much Napa Valley
• Innovative Buyer-Supplier Match Making Program to Launch at USA Trade Tasting *Sponsored Link*

• California lifts restrictions on senior water rights
• Western Growers Urges Senate Action On Western Water Bill
• Feds must discloses some California groundwater well information
• Dry start to autumn in California, but near-record strength El Niño still on track to bring a wet winter
• Almond Growers Join in Groundwater Study
• The truth be told: The Delta, the tunnels, and the tributaries, part 1
• LA Aqueduct flows after dam built for drought is dismantled

• Oregon to Host Terroir Congress
• The 2015 New York Wine Experience: The Power of Wine

• Take Care to Learn From These 4 Big Social-Media Blunders

• A Reader’s Guide to Serious Drinking

• The Obscure French Grape Making Amazing American Wine
• The Effect of High Hydrostatic Pressure Processing on Chemical Composition of Oak Chip-Macerated Wine
• Don’t fall into the trap of Napa Valley in the 80s
• Filtering wine one way doesn't mean it's the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

• The Barry Smith interview: what is the nature of wine perception, and is wine flavour objective?
• Interview, Part 2: BevMo’s Senior Vice President For Wine, Bob Paulinski
• Wine Star: Ken Wright
• Bonarrigos the first family of wine in Texas

• Behind the Wine: Napa Valley’s Palmaz Vineyards

• Napa Valley venues receive global wine tourism awards

• Alcohol sales up at Virginia ABC stores, restaurants

• Facing climate change, Italian growers turn to cooler areas, native grapes

• Social yeast cells prefer to work with close relatives to make our beer, bread and wine

• A game changer for Burgundy winemaking?
• Beaujolais crus to identify all climats by 2016
• Let's get fizzical: why English wine is sparkling
• A New Eastern European Producer Enters the Scene
• A reckoning for Franciacorta: Two top writers share their criticism of the appellation and its direction

• Wine industry reform a huge benefit for South Australia
• OZ: Margin squeezing and price pressure drives winemakers away from supplying big supermarkets

• Why Chile’s vineyards are flying high

• Saudis Agree to Free Briton Jailed for Having Homemade Wine

• A Halloween wine tale 2015: I am Legend

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 57 new links including the following top headlines:

• Craft Beer is Big Business
• Blue Moon lawsuit devalues definition of “craft”
• Few Brouhahas Brewing Between Craft Beer Competitors
• Australian accent caused by 'alcoholic slur' of heavy-drinking early settlers
• ‘World’s first’ non-alcoholic distilled spirit launches

Get all today's news at Craft Beverage Insights here.

This NewsFetch was hand-crafted for you by Editor/Publisher Lewis Perdue and Assistant Editor, Becca Yeamans-Irwin. Visit Becca's website at The Academic Wino.