DECEMBER 24, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

Happy Holidays! This will be our last full issue until 2020.
TOP NEWS

• Is Napa running family winegrowers out of business?
• There’s no need to panic about tariffs on European wine – yet.
• Wine Caves and the Reality of Elitism
• Millennials ready to spend more on AlcBevs in 2020: Were 2X more likely than Boomers to trade up this year
• TTB attempts to handle obscenity & politics with new beer and wine labels
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

LOOKING AHEAD

• Move over, White Claw? Here’s what we’ll be drinking in 2020.
• Can Beverage Alcohol’s 2019 Sales Growth Hold In 2020?

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Breaking the doom loop: Wine desperately needs AgTech to get out of its slump
• OZ: Wildfires ruin up to 1/3 of Adelaide Hills vineyard production
• 7 proven ways to boost wine restaurant sales (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa County Planning Commission favors winery streamlining
• California North Coast marketers reveal how they engage consumers in local tourism, wine, cheese, hospitality, clean energy
• This insider look at distributor Friday meetings can spotlight your wine (Sponsored)

HEALTH

• Meet the woman who wants to make sobriety cool in an alcohol-obsessed culture

DROUGHT/WATER

• Delta conveyance update
• Do water rights have a future?

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• How will the next decade wine geography look like?

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• No, 100% tariffs on European wines won’t be good for California wineries

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• The broadening of the fine wine market

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Will wine ever move past the 750 mL bottle and cork?

MEDIA MATTERS

• Four Books That Made Me Smarter This Year

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Can wine drinking be a spiritual experience? Cal Poly professor says yes, and here’s why

WINE PEOPLE

• 20 Minutes With: Diane Flamand, Légende Winemaker at Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite)

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Where do you find women in restaurants? Often, it’s all in the name.

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• New AVAs help define Washington wine

EUROPE & THE UK

• German Labor Scarcity Threatens Decade-Long Tourist Boom

DOWN UNDER

• NSW and SA fires live: five million hectares burned in Australia’s bushfires – latest updates
• Bushfire devastates Adelaide Hills vineyards, with around one-third wiped out

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina: thousands protest in Mendoza wine region over axed water protections