DECEMBER 17, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• For wineries, 2019 was the BEST year and the WORST year (depends on HOW you ask)
• Liquor Taxes Could Go Up 400%, Thanks to Congressional Dysfunction
• At 2019 Close, Wine Marketing—Past And Future—Is Tied To Social Media
• Bankers-Turned-Winemakers Are Transforming England Into Wine Country
• 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)

• Spirits widen market share dominance over wine
• Wine industry’s DtC future rests on getting a grip on these top online purchase drivers
• 7 proven ways to boost wine restaurant sales (Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• French demand outstrips supply for hybrid vines

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• 2020 SVB State of the Industry Report & Videocast
• UC Davis Library Receives Gift to Preserve Work of One of History’s Top Viticulturists
• Bundschu Company Announces Towle Merritt as Vice President of Operations and General Manager of Gundlach Bundschu
• Wine Industry Leader & Entrepreneur Jeff O’Neill to Keynote at the 2020 Unified Symposium’s Luncheon
• 9 California vineyard professionals earn master vigneron certification
• California bans pesticide linked to brain damage in children
• Star Wars creator George Lucas aims to settle legal row over new vineyard at Skywalker Ranch
• This insider look at distributor Friday meetings can spotlight your wine (Sponsored)

HEALTH

• This writer killed her toxic wine habit with kindness
• Cap your alcohol at 10 drinks a week: new Aussie draft guidelines

DROUGHT/WATER

• ‘The water wars have begun.’ Some wonder how water plan will impact Merced County farms

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Packaging giant Ardagh expands sustainability agenda
• Napa’s wine industry to boost environmental sustainability
• California Wine Makers Examine Climate’s Effect On Their Industry (podcast)
• Cork stoppers are ‘long-term contribution to climate change mitigation’, producer claims
• How the Wine Scholar Guild is responding to climate change in France

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• With Threat of 100 Percent Tariffs on EU Wines and Spirits, Fears Loom Large
• Wine industry to present at export conference
• Trade deal will see Chinese purchase more US products

BREXIT

• Brexit: ‘Uncertainty for us is over, having a set date is very positive’, says FIAB

DISTRIBUTORS

• Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Announces Commercial Leadership Promotions
• Get Actionable Insights For Your Import and Distribution Business Here. (Sponsored)

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Sotheby’s wine sales hit US$118m
• Fine wine prices fall in 2019: report extract

DATA & TRENDS

• Your top four key takeaways from 2019
• The Reflective Twenties?

MARKETING & SALES

• Why now is the right time to read Gluckman’s ‘That S*it Will Never Sell’
• 19 Crimes: ‘We Didn’t Want to Leave Europe Either’

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Twitter is disturbingly right and alarmingly wrong about what you’re interested in

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Is there such a thing as umami?
• The Lost Golden Grape of Venice: How an Italian Family Resurrected its Rarest Wine

WINE PEOPLE

• Pinot Pioneer’s Lingering Legacy
• Washington, D.C.’s Maria Bastasch Wants Wine That ‘Tastes Good and Helps People’
• Views from a Napa Valley winemaker: Julien Fayard
• Spotlight on 2020: John Chapman, The Oxford Wine Company

WINE PLACES

• Wine’s Nuevo Frontier

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Dormant season vineyard management

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Strong BWS performance boosts soaring online sales
• UK: An ever lengthening festive period bodes well for on-trade