NOVEMBER 21, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Rowan Gormley steps down from Naked Wines
• Calif Ag Dept to hold Dec. 17 workshop on Suisun Valley Vintners and Growers changes to grape pricing districts
• Vineyard House Seeks Injunction To Stop Constellation Brands From Using “To Kalon” Labeled Wines
• California Wine 2019 Harvest Report
• Strong US trading puts Naked Wines on track, but losses mount
• U.S. Economic Confidence, Satisfaction Improve in November
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Ailing Vintner, Art Collector Donald Bryant & Wife Face Mountains of Debt
• 7 proven ways to boost wine restaurant sales (Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• How to build a sustainable export business in China
• Moldovan wine exports boom in first nine months of 2019

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• CAWG Elects New Board Officers and Directors: Mike Testa Assumes Role as Chair
• This insider look at distributor Friday meetings can spotlight your wine (Sponsored)

HEALTH

• Histamines in Wine: The Likely Cause of Your Nasty Wine Headache

WILDFIRES

• Mental health at risk as California wildfire threat grows
• PG&E cuts power to 50,000 California homes and businesses during wildfire risk
• Bushfire smoke can get into hail and even go from vine to wine

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Marijuana moves closer to becoming federally legal in US

DROUGHT/WATER

• California drains lakes as rains fail to arrive
• A case study of the Fox Canyon Groundwater Market

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Co-op and Taylor’s fund reforestation project

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Another Independent Family Winery Goes Corporate

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• How has Petrus performed on the secondary market?
• How to invest in fine wine

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How do you write about quality cheap wine when the system is rigged against it?
• L-R and South West trump ‘irrelevant’ Bordeaux for younger drinkers

MARKETING & SALES

• If you are into cause marketing, you need to take a look at these issues so you can tell where the land mines are located.
• Everything You Need To Know About Beaujolais Nouveau Day
• Why Beaujolais Nouveau? ~ History Holds the Answers

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• The Garagiste Wine Festival gives sippers the chance to take in fine, small-batch wines without the pomp

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine and Vineyards of Burgundy by Camillo Favaro and Giampaolo Gravina
• Aldo Sohm’s Wine Knowledge Is for the Masses
• Great novels for wine lovers

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Why human beings love wine, according to Warren Winiarski: “completeness”
• In focus: California Cabernet
• Le Beaujolais Nouveau Ain’t That Bad
• The Story Behind Volage, a New Grower Crémant de Loire Rosé
• Exploring Hungarian Wine with Matt Horkey and Charine Tan

TASTELESS (RETCHING EXCESS)

• Eric Trump Burned For Using Impeachment Hearing To Sell Trump Wine

WINE PEOPLE

• Penfolds Chief Winemaker Peter Gago on heritage, modernity and wine as a travel retail destination
• Famiglie Storiche’s Alberto Zenato on promoting Amarone
• Why Mphumeleli Ndlangisa isn’t your conventional winemaker
• Celebrating Women In Wine: Jaime Bicknell
• Young Gun: Angus Vinden

WINE PLACES

• How did this Paso winery become region’s fastest rising star? ‘The wow factor’

WINE EDUCATION

• Fourteen new Masters of Wines
• WSET announces three-year partnership with The Wine Show

WINE HISTORY

• The First Drinksgiving in Verse

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Thanksgiving Dinner Cost Rises Only a Penny

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Reflective strips overcome challenge

EUROPE & THE UK

• Rueda remodels wine classification system and DO guidelines
• The significance of France’s 363 PDOs and 74 PGIs

DOWN UNDER

• Aussie fire update: No direct damage to vineyards but still areas of concern

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• You can now buy Christmas stockings filled with wine

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Bold Rock, the #2 cider brand in the US to join Artisanal Brewing Ventures
• US Beer Demand to See Minimal Annual Gains in Volume Terms to 2023
• Inaugural ‘Small Brewery Sunday’ bolsters US craft brewers