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Château La Gaffelière 1979 – Memory from 1991 VinExpo

June 21, 1991, marvelous lunch in St. Emilion overlooking the ruins…side trip from VinExpo. Megan kept a wonderful label diary. Priceless. (No record of price paid). This was the year I founded Wine Business Monthly. -LP

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2019 Bottled wine exports up in volume & value; Bulk volume up, value down: OIV

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Sonoma County puts a target on all its wineries by not identifying the one reporting 14 employees testing positive for COVID-19

  Sonoma County Public Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase has said that 14 employees at an unidentified Sonoma County winery had positive for COVID-19. In a May 29 article, the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat quoted Mase: “I can tell you there’s a winery that’s involved, there are 14 persons that are positive in that winery and […]

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Most consumers are super wary about resuming lockdown activities including eating out

Source: Morning Consult

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MAY 29, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS Caymus Sues Calif To Speed Tasting Room Reopening Expensive Wine Sales Eclipsed by Hard Seltzer Consumer Confidence Stabilizes, But Hides More COVID-Related Vulnerabilities & Pessimism Liability protection sought in coronavirus assistance package COVID re-opening guidelines for commercial real estate Gaining control of complex custom crush operations (Sponsored) WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION DO Cava […]

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COVID re-opening guidelines for commercial real estate. PLUS! — the lawsuit over cooked wine

With a number of Coronavirus re-opening plans varying widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, I thought it might be useful to send along the following links to pdfs that outline some best practices from Cushman and Wakefield.   These are especially important both as regards health issues and to possible lawsuits from consumers and employees.   […]

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Consumer Confidence Stabilizes, But Hides More COVID-Related Vulnerabilities & Pessimism

More charts and analysis at the source: Morning Consult

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Sullivan Rutherford Estate outlines transition to new management team and revived emphasis on quality and preservation of winery history

Sullivan Rutherford Estate is pleased to announce the latest developments at the historic Napa Valley estate, founded in 1972. Since acquiring the property in early-2018, Juan Pablo Torres Padilla, Managing Partner, has quietly assembled one of the valley’s most impressive leadership groups, which includes General Manager Joshua Lowell, Estate Director Lisa Barker-Mullen, Vineyard Manager Mike […]

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Nielsen: Big wineries grab 70% of COVID sales – Table and sparkling wine continue off-premise surge – DtC average price declines

Source Nielsen, U.S. off-premise channels, reflecting the week ending May 16, 2020. For the latest 11-week time frame when COVID-19 heavily impacted consumer behavior (from the week ending 3/7/20 through the week ending 5/16/20), we’ve seen the following change in dollar sales in aggregate (from our in-store retail measurement):   Total alcohol: +27% Beer/FMB/cider: +21.7% […]

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Millennial unemployment has suffered especially hard due to COVID-19. May put GenX back in economic driver’s seat.

Source: U.S. Labor Dept. data via Washington Post “At the beginning of 2019, millennials became the largest generation in the U.S. full-time workforce, surpassing Gen X. But the coronavirus crisis walloped millennials so disproportionately that they’re probably giving the top generational spot back to Gen X in the next month or two.”

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