TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Santa Barbara Winemaker Arrested for Embezzlement and Tax Fraud
• Red Blends are Stirring Up U.S. Wine Sales
• Senate votes to kill EPA’s water rules governing smaller streams
• Alcohol in moderation belief flawed
• The Business of Wine. Moving beyond Excel. *Sponsored Link*

• United States moves to punish South Africa over farm export impasse
• Full TPP text released; Ag groups respond
• Italian farmers want to seize TTIP opportunity
• Australian farm groups digest the detail as full TPP trade deal text revealed at last

• Port harvest survives Cyclone Henry in excellent health
• ProWein World: Your success story - ready for export! *Sponsored Link*

• Napa County planners won't tamper with special events at wineries
• Calisotga tasting room policies stand pat
• Tasting room approved at historic downtown Napa home
• Uber targets tourists in Wine Country
• Lake County wines make a name for themselves

• Seasons change while government remains unprepared
• Dueling drought relief bills reveal stark differences
• Desalination Costs, Even In Major Drought, Still High
• To save water, an underground movement to bank El Niño's rainfall
• Soak the rich to help solve California's water crisis
• Finally, a one-stop shop for locating California’s fishes
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• Behind the Scenes at the Wine World's Big Networking Event

• Wine and social media

• The Future of Mobile Payments

• Advice to emerging wine writers: be known for something, but be careful
• With the 4th ed. to the Oxford Companion to Wine, some new terms and trends have come into play
• This Sommelier Is Turning Wine-Speak into Comics
• Book Review: "Napa Valley Chronicles" by Lauren Coodley

• Why you should add blush to the wine colors of fall
• Antonini versus Rolland: wine's stylistic battleground
• Can You Age Rosé?
• Why the world hates wine, wine experts, and wine snobs (video)
• Blood, Sweat and Tiers - Spreading a Wine Culture in America
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• Interview with Spar’s Nick Jones and Daphne Teremetz
• Charles Puglia of Blue Hill at Stone Barns

• Champagne Pol Roger: producer profile

• Entrepreneurial spirit is flourishing in Oregon’s sin industries: Booze and pot
• Quality improving, consistency is still an issue for Indiana wine industry

• WSU’s new wine center on a quest for quality
• George Brown College in Toronto unveils applied research facility

• One Winemaker’s Quixotic Quest To Save California’s Wine Industry From Climate Change
• Enhancing Wine Quality, Reducing Waste
• A Clean Green Future for Champagne

• Ongoing domestication of wine yeast: past, present and future
• Does ultraviolet radiation improve wine quality?

• Alsace seeks grand cru status for red wines
• New quality standards set for Austrian Sekt
• ‘Feel-good factor’ getting corks popping in UK

• Australian grape grower and winemaker Tony Mangan has died
• OZ: Food and Beverages to tackle big growth in online shopper behaviour
• Yarra Valley: dividing the room

• China’s Winemakers Seek Their Own Napa Valley
• Taiwan ‘not just a little China’

• Chile lifts Carignan from bulk wine status

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 60 new links including the following top headlines:

• How pot and hippie beer explain the future of the American economy
• The hunt for a $1 billion apple
• Craft beer is going through an identity crisis
• What's on tap for the beer industry's fragmented market?
• Crowdfunding may not create the 'next Facebook,' but it's great for craft breweries
• Do We Need ‘Craft Beer Evangelists’?

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