OCTOBER 22, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• More PG&E wine country power blackouts possible starting tomorrow. Scroll down to the special coverage links.
• Can drinking red wine ever be good for us?
• If you’re using ‘millennial’ as a meaningful measurement, you should probably stop
• Sonoma wine industry seeks to sway county staff, political appointees on land-use limits
• Do you need a game to reach Millennials and Gen Z?
• A Man’s Gut Made Him Extremely Drunk by Brewing Alcohol When He Ate Carbs
• 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)

OBITUARIES

• Winery founder Robert Rue dies at 73

PG&E BLACKOUTS

• Map: Proposed PG&E power outages in the North Bay
• PG&E identifies 9,623 Napa County customers for possible power shutoff Wednesday
• PG&E considers new power outage for North Bay but will system fixes be ready?
• PG&E power shut-offs: Here’s what you need to know
• Sonoma hotels, restaurants lost thousands of dollars in last PG&E outage

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Kunde, VWE sue insurers over $20 million in 2017 smoke taint case
• Bryant Family Vineyards court adversaries make an issue out of court coverage by Wine Industry Insight
• Why Bryant Wine’s San Fran lawsuit vs consultant may get SLAPP-ed down
• Sulser Bryant’s imaginary conspiracy
• Bryant Winery lawyer issues wandering letter filled with vague claims and asks for a retraction. (Rejected)
• Sulser Bryant sues to silence the whistleblower who once saved her $3 million
• The Next Step To A Virtual Winery (Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• All orders requesting foundation material from Russell Ranch Vineyard on hold until further notice due to red blotch infection (PDF)
• 5 Wineries Using Cutting-Edge Technologies (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Registration & Housing to Open for the 2020 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium
• Founders, Accused of Racism, Denies Seeing Black Employee’s Race
• How 19 Crimes and Augmented Reality Helped Revolutionize the Wine Label (Sponsored)

HEALTH

• Grape Seed Extract Lowers Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke
• New Study Says People Who Frequently Drink Alcohol Had Lower Rates Of Obesity, But Doctors Disagree
• How to Modernize Your Wine Club (Sponsored)

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Cannabis: Higher Education
• Australia, cannabis and the wine industry
• The Next Step To A Virtual Winery (Sponsored)

AMAZON

• Amazon launches its own spirits brand

DROUGHT/WATER

• Regulatory challenges postpone start of dam removal in St. Helena
• The Dreamt Land by Mark Arax: We’re all complicit in California’s water follies

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• How Organic Winemakers Are Turning Chianti’s Red Rooster Green
• RayZyn draws on otherwise wasted wine grapes for a superfood snack

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• The Next Step To A Virtual Winery (Sponsored)

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Canada: InterProvincial Shipping Subscription Now Available
• Wine Buyer’s Expectations and How to Exceed Them (Sponsored)

REAL ESTATE – What’s this new section about?

• Winery and Vineyard Real Estate Market Rockin’ & Rollin’ in Southern Mendocino County and Northern Sonoma County
• Winery Insurance Market Woes Continue
• Legacy vineyard estate, Willamette Valley, $6.5 Million. Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• CEO departure could prompt major purchase by Treasury Wine Estates
• Why the best years are still to come for TWE

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Les Grands Chais acquires Maison Desvignes Ainé et Fils
• Yelp Economic Average Finds California’s Urban Centers are Declining

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Are red wines with an ABV of 14% the key to “business as usual”?
• Wine, cheese … and planes: Experts say Trump opens a dangerous new front in E.U. tariff fight

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Last Chance to See: A Nacional Treasure
• Four-pronged sale makes US$3.6m in NYC
• Cape Fine & Rare Wine Auction shows the strength of the South Africa wine buyer

DATA & TRENDS

• Dale Stratton Joins Emetry’s Board of Advisors
• The Next Step To A Virtual Winery (Sponsored)

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Reward and pain: How the brain decides what to purchase

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)

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• Ailsa Bay partners with arc-net on blockchain whisky app
• 5 Wineries Using Cutting-Edge Technologies (Sponsored)

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Women in Wine Aren’t Waiting for Seats at the Table

MEDIA MATTERS

• New book on Italian wine questions the idea of ‘indigenous’ grape varieties

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Ten more grapes to know

WINE PLACES

• A Design Lover’s Guide to Champagne, France

WII WINE OF THE DAY

• 2016 Joseph Filippi Winery Tres Viñas Cucamonga Valley Hippard Ranch Red blend – Full- bodied grand slam of flavor
• 2018 Douloufakis Femina Malvasia (Crete, Greece)

WINE TOURISM

• Flaneur Wines at the Carlton Grain Elevator Elevates Willamette Valley Wine Guest Experiences in Downtown Carlton

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Why Harvest is a Good Time to Review Grape Disease Management
• Why We Should Be Talking About Open-Air Winemaking
• Deepest look yet at brewer’s yeasts reveals the diversity harnessed by humans

EUROPE & THE UK

• Wine is Denmark’s most popular beverage … in terms of pure alcohol
• UK: Hunt & Coady and Walter Speller merge to form Hunt & Speller

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Appellation Marlborough Wine grows to 49 members
• The South Australian Wine Industry snapshot reveals a general drop in business confidence
• Startups chosen for South Australian-first wine tourism technology accelerator

LATIN AMERICA

• Online retail site for Argentinian wine launches

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Can There Be Terroir in Spirits?
• The secret of classic Belgian beers? Medieval super yeasts!