SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• The imminent glut: The CA wine industry is facing a major wine surplus
• How Cameron Hughes Plays The Allocation Shuffle With California’s Wine Glut
• Lodi Wine Grape Glut Leads To Creative Sale Sign
• The top 1% of your wine customers produce 25% of your revenues. How do you find them?
• UK vs US: How the low and no alcohol category is shaping up on each side of the Atlantic
• Measuring Moët in America
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)
• Visitor Registration For 2020 Future Wine Expo Is Now Open (Sponsored)

OBITUARY

• Community tribute to Charlie Barra, Mendocino County’s Godfather of Grape Growing

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Wine Institute gets almost $1 million increase from U.S. Market Assistance Program (falls one place overall); Northwest wine finally included
• Napa County winery visits appear to exceed legal use permit allowances
• Jeff Hill likely to escape punishment for major wine scam
• The Next Step To A Virtual Winery (Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Napa Valley Grape Harvest Reports 2019
• Wine grape growers in Solano’s Suisun, Green valleys seek change in key California crop pricing report
• Central Coast harvest two to three weeks later than 2018
• Champagne harvest shrunk by heatwave, but enjoys ‘superb’ quality
• Climate change hits Champagne harvest
• 5 Wineries Using Cutting-Edge Technologies (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Billionaire Calif vintner/nursery owners (and water, pomegranate magnates) donate $3/4 Bil for climate change research
• Materra hires Chelsea Barrett as winemaker
• Napa’s Leaders Need to Embrace the Obvious On Winery Tourism
• Adam Lee’s post-Siduri second chapter: Hint: there’s Pinot Noir in it
• How the Central Valley became the ‘Appalachia of the West.’ Now, new threats loom for economy
• Glen Ellen winemaker turns bottles into sand
• How 19 Crimes and Augmented Reality Helped Revolutionize the Wine Label (Sponsored)

HEALTH

• Can Red Wine Reduce Your Risk for Alzheimer’s?
• PureWine Wants to Take the Hangover Out of Wine Drinking
• How to Modernize Your Wine Club (Sponsored)

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• USDA Inching Closer to Hemp Crop Insurance
• Could Cannabis-Growing Facilities Be Bad for Air Quality?
• The Next Step To A Virtual Winery (Sponsored)

DROUGHT/WATER

• Managing water quality across boundaries

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• OZ: Recycling vineyard plastics makes circular economy real

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• The Next Step To A Virtual Winery (Sponsored)

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Get ready for a Texas ABC direct shipping audit
• Wine Buyer’s Expectations and How to Exceed Them (Sponsored)

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?

• The Real Estate Behind That Glass of Texas Wine
• Legacy vineyard estate, Willamette Valley, $6.5 Million. Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• OZ: Moppity Vineyards expands into Canberra with purchase of Kerralee vineyard
• Portuguese Wine Company Esporão Looks to Vinho Verde, Buying Quinta do Ameal

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Explainer: The jet subsidy row that threatens transatlantic tariff war

DISTRIBUTORS

• Get Actionable Insights For Your Import and Distribution Business Here. (Sponsored)

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – rising trade and the latest releases
• The best of Graves: Haut Brion and La Mission Haut Brion
• When your father’s wine cellar just won’t do
• Fine wine investment: Buying smart

DATA & TRENDS

• “Your Data Has No Value.” Except in One Very Specific Way.
• The Next Step To A Virtual Winery (Sponsored)

MARKETING & SALES

• How to Modernize Your Wine Club (Sponsored)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• How 19 Crimes and Augmented Reality Helped Revolutionize the Wine Label (Sponsored)

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Visitor Registration For 2020 Future Wine Expo Is Now Open (Sponsored)

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• The Philosophical Case Against the White-Wine Emoji
• Shackleton map encourages drinkers to go ‘off-grid’

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• 5 Wineries Using Cutting-Edge Technologies (Sponsored)

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Vinotas Selections Talks Looming Recession and the Wine Business

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Unraveling the Secrets of Cognac
• Ten more grapes to know
• Everything you need to know about Koshu from Japan (slideshow)

WINE PEOPLE

• Meet the woman behind the Napa Valley wine company that currently has a waitlist for its coveted vintages
• Andrew Thomas celebrates 20 years of making wine from Braemore vineyard
• Sara Fowler with Peju Winery (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Maison Louis Jadot’s First Oregon Venture Resonates in Carlton

WII WINE OF THE DAY

• Meeker Vineyard 2010 Four Kings Alexander Valley Red Blend
• 2018 Le Cigare Volant from Bonny Doon Vineyard (Monterey County, CA)
• Preston 2018 Dry Creek Valley Vin Gris – Quaffable but over-priced
• 2018 Vavasour Sauvignon Blanc (Awatere Valley, New Zealand)

WINE EDUCATION

• School’s out for sake?

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Descendent. Farmer. Grower. Winemaker. Is This The Promising Lineage For Pennsylvania Wine?
• Spotted Lanternfly a Sticky Nuisance and a Billion Dollar-Plus Threat in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Virginia
• Stomp and squish: Pennsylvanians battle ‘nightmare’ bugs
• NY: Total Wine to appeal ruling denying Westchester liquor license
• MD: Owners of proposed 9,400-square-foot Cork Wine and Spirits seeking tentative liquor license approval
• SEPTA, Lyft Team Up to Take You to ‘Pennsylvania Wine Land’

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Is it good night for bentonite?
• Non-Saccharomyces Yeast in Winemaking

EUROPE & THE UK

• Provence Debuts A New Wine Designation
• Winemaking in the Nordics, a world away from French chateau luxe
• Jewish groups demand Italy take action against wine bottles saluting Nazis

DOWN UNDER

• New Zealand Winegrowers welcomes increase in seasonal workers (PDF)
• OZ: Small wineries battle large players in an overcrowded market
• OZ: ACCC Wine Grape Market report ‘threatens long-term viability’ of wine supply businesses

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa: Winemaker wins titanic organic battle in appeal court

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Watch Supersonic Shock Waves Launch from a Bottle of Champagne

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• America’s Craft Brewers Contributed $79 Billion to the Economy Last Year
• American whiskey: do single malts need regulating?
• French Whisky Is Becoming The New Chic Drink In France