• The War for the Soul of Sonoma County – the Winery Working Group Battle
• NY Liquor Authority Proposes Rule To Cripple NYC Wine Lists
• Beer and wine deliveries slowed by strike at Portland-area beverage distributor
• Constellation Brands: 2 Reasons The Ballast Point Acquisition Was Worth The Premium
• The Business of Wine. Accessing key information. *Sponsored Link*

• 2015 is already a great Vintage in Rhone Valley, it will remain exceptional and become legendary
• Burgundy 2015: Reds earn early praise at Hospices tasting
• Barolo 2011 vintage report
• How to become a wine pro? Visit ProWein 2016 in Düsseldorf, Germany *Sponsored Link*

• A&J Vineyard Supply Helps Valley Fire victims by re-purposing vineyard end-poles
• Sustainable/organic production in vineyards seminar: Napa
• California olives, grapes are good partners

• NOAA says El Niño to improve Calif drought, but worsen it farther north
• California's vanishing lakes are a climate change cautionary tale
• El Niño may trigger floods, famine and sickness in much of the world

• Georgia to Host UNWTO Global Wine Tourism Conference in 2016
• SommCon a wine-soaked success
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• Science proves that email is stressing you out
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• Apple Pay Users Replace Credit, Debit Cards with Mobile Payments

• Shanken Outs Sidney Frank Importing for Lying
• OMGNAs: The wine writer’s nemesis
• Where are all the wine stories?
• Somm: Into the Bottle – film review
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• It's a new era in wine: Thoughts on Pinot Noir, Robert Parker and the mainstream food media
• The Rise of the Grape. Adventures in Rediscovery

• Winemaker Charles Smith moves to Seattle and into a midcentury marvel

• Taste Wine at Two More Colleges
• Adelaide ‘pioneers’ online wine course

• Washington’s Long, Hot Summer: Is Climate Change To Blame?

• Nitrogen Part II: Effective Nitrogen Management for Vineyards
• A personal touch to wine microbiology

• A Top French Foie Gras Merchant Buys Control Of Sauternes Estate Château de Rayne Vigneau
• Prosecco Road, Part I: Primo Franco’s sparkling revolution

• OZ: Labour hire inquiry hears of mistreatment of refugee workers in horticulture and a community that 'doesn't care'
• OZ: Coping with drought forces some farmers to bail out while others plough money into irrigation technology
• OZ: Labour-hire middlemen make huge margins
• NZ: Wine Industry Sales Education academy set to launch in Central Otago

• Asia ‘the best market’
• People in Japan are obsessed with a French holiday where you celebrate by bathing in a pool of wine

• Wines of Chile president backs Carmenère
• Sun World licenses Chilean grape growers

• This Guy Joined Tinder As A Glass Of Wine, And Hilarity Ensued
• The Church Of Amy Semple McFeiring--Holiday Edition

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 42 new links including the following top headlines:

• Beer and wine deliveries slowed by strike at Portland-area beverage distributor
• The Problem with “Craft”
• Chicago aspiring to be the craft-brew capital of the U.S.
• Constellation Brands: 2 Reasons The Ballast Point Acquisition Was Worth The Premium
• Craft professionals share their homebrewing secrets

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