TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Will Walmart Versus Texas Be Granholm II And Headed For SCOTUS?
• Accolade Wines lays groundwork for public float with 10% jump in sales
• The Benefits of Dry-Farming Wine—For the Palate and the Planet
• North Coast Water Table Spared
• Most supermarket sale wines are mostly mediocre plonk in disguise (with rare exceptions)
• The Business of Wine. Accessing key information. *Sponsored Link*

• San Joaquin staff to work on winery ordinance enforcement policies
• Tribes, Lake County forge deal to safeguard cultural sites
• How Lodi saved the wine world in 2015
• 52,000 trade visitors can’t be wrong – ProWein 2016 is the largest wine and spirits trade fair worldwide *Sponsored Link*

• California regulators propose relaxing water conservation
• California Wants to Store Water for Farmers, but Struggles Over How to Do It
• Signs Favor a Wet Winter for CA
• Most Property Owners and Water Suppliers Comply With State Water Board’s Russian River Informational Order; Complaints Issued for the Rest
• Update on the Groundwater Sustainability Plan and Alternative Regulation

• Who gives a crap about wine bloggers? (If you're in the wine biz, YOU'D better!)
• Four in Five Retailers Say Mobile Is Having a Major Effect
• 5 Tips for Digital Marketing Success

• Banquet: A new wine-buying app that's actually easy to use
• 3 Key Learnings from this Season’s Best Holiday Social Media Promotions
• 4 Ways to Use Your Blog to Market Your Business on Social Media
• How a Twitter timeline shift would affect brands

• Best wine books of 2015
• Books for the Gastronome

• Prosecco Road, Part III: Bringing out terroir and bubbles the old-fashioned way
• The Bourbon Barrel Craze Arrives in Wine
• Should you decant your Champagne?
• Why You Shouldn't Drink Champagne From A 'Coupe' Glass

• Rory Quirk of CruItaly’s wine strategy in China
• Hal Wilson, Cambridge Wine Merchants
• Jo Wehring, Wines of South Africa

• Views from a Prosecco maker: Gianluca and Desiderio Bisol
• Vin Santo Wines of Italy
• Château Nenin: Pomerol via the Médoc

• The FAA’s Drone Registration Site Is Now Up And Running
• What happens when you don’t register your drone with the FAA

• UK: Hambledon announces expansion
• New president for Franciacorta Consorzio
• Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits to divest assets in Bordeaux and Cracow for €28m
• Romania: In December, the consumption of wine grows by 50% against a normal month

• OZ: Casella buys upmarket wine brand from McWilliam's
• OZ: A jaundiced view of the year in wine

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

Today’s Craft Beverage Insights News has 51 new links including the following top headlines:

• Will Walmart Versus Texas Be Granholm II And Headed For SCOTUS?
• U.S. Beverage Alcohol Laws Navigate The Constitution And The Internet
• The Arizona Craft Brewers Guild Responds to Four Peaks Acquisition
• A-B InBev to Acquire London’s Camden Town Brewery
• Big Legislative Wins for Small Brewers
• TTB Publishes List of Exempt Ingredients

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