JANUARY 2, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• 2020 Surprise! Drink less (or nothing) fails to make top New Year’s resolutions.
• Research Uncovers The Link Between U.S. Demographics And Beverage Alcohol Consumption
• Online booze is booming
• Wine’s Year of Growing Uncertainty
• Hard Kombucha Poised For Growth As Consumers Look For Options
• Dry January Can Go To Hell
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

IN MEMORIAM

• Aussie wine industry pays tribute to ‘trailblazer’ Hazel Murphy
• 2019: In Memoriam

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Is Napa running family winegrowers out of business?
• 7 proven ways to boost wine restaurant sales (Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• UK sales of champagne and sparkling wine lose their fizz in past year
• The French Just Aren’t Quaffing Champagne the Way They Once Did
• Making the Case for Négociant Burgundy

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• ‘Do Not Sell My Info’: U.S. retailers rush to comply with California privacy law
• Freemark Abbey’s Ted Edwards retires after 40 years
• Geyser Peak Winery’s owner closing Healdsburg tasting room
• New California law makes it easier to blur the line between beer and wine
• Larkmead owners donate $200,000 to U.C. Davis toward preserving Napa’s history
• Napa vineyard worker struggles to pay bills after cancer keeps her out of fields
• Training Workshops added in January at Cakebread Cellars in Rutherford, CA
• This insider look at distributor Friday meetings can spotlight your wine (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA)

• CCPA Is Here! Happy New Year?
• California is rewriting the rules of the internet. Businesses are scrambling to keep up
• California’s new privacy law, explained
• Why ‘Do Not Sell My Info’ Buttons Will Be Springing Up All Over the Internet in January

HEALTH

• Why I’m doing #MyJanuary instead of #DryJanuary
• New Year’s anxiety hangover? Here’s what’s happening in your brain
• How Dry January Affects Your Gut, According To Experts
• This is what happened when I stopped drinking for a month
• Happy New Year! Here’s a 1,000-year-old hangover cure
• Cutting out alcohol may reduce atrial fibrillation episodes

WILDFIRES

• Study Better Understands Smoke Damage in Vineyards
• Recovery of grapevines from fire damage
• Smoke & Winegrapes: A Conversation with Glenn McGourty (video)

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Coca-Cola Says It Doesn’t Have Plans to Enter Cannabis Market

DROUGHT/WATER

• Washington snowpack remains bleak
• A warning from ancient tree rings: The Americas are prone to catastrophic, simultaneous droughts

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Champagne and Climate Change – is blocking MLF the answer for fresher bubbles?
• The Famous Champagne Houses Take On Sustainable Agricultural For The New Year
• Wine travels to space to help in climate change research

RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• Drink more recycled wastewater

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Industry Veteran Locher to Lead Winery Insurance Program
• Uber and Postmates File Suit to Block California Freelancer Law

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Drizly Expands Alcohol Delivery To 14 More Louisiana Parishes

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• BevMo! Announces CEO Succession
• How AB InBev and Molson Coors Are Adapting to a Rapidly Changing Alcoholic Beverage Market
• Marie Brizard solves immediate cash flow needs

AGTECH

• New vineyard robot helps workers pick/pack 42% more fruit each day

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• The New War Against Wine
• Who Wins Wine’s Trade War?
• U.S. Tariffs on French Goods Could Be a Big Opportunity for Italian Winemakers
• China-U.S. trade deal signing expected January 15

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex 1000 dips 0.65% in December
• Liv-ex 100 index closes 2019 down 3%
• Bonhams wine and whisky sales top £16m in 2019

DATA & TRENDS

• How a Decade of Drinking Changed the Future of Booze
• New year, new drinks: What to watch in US beverage in 2020 and beyond
• Wine in 2020: What to look out for

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How not to get ripped off in a restaurant

MARKETING & SALES

• The Dødsing Point Can Improve Customer Retention
• Festival and Event Trends

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Wine in cans in 2020
• Do You Really Need A Different Glass For Each Wine? A Conversation With Maximilian Riedel

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• New drinks industry speakers for 1st One Step Beyond conference
• 18 wine and spirits trade shows that should be on your radar in 2020

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Instagram User Growth in the US Will Drop to Single Digits For the First Time

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Trump Winery Fired Undocumented Workers — But Only After Grape Harvest Had Ended

MEDIA MATTERS

• 14 Year Anniversary – On the Wine Trail in Italy – The Year-End Review

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The bitter truth
• Putting the Brine in Wine
• Jerry Lohr Talks Wine Grape Quality (podcast)

WINE PEOPLE

• 20 Minutes With: Sherry-Lehman CEO Chris Adams on Warhol and Wine
• Thomas Lombard of Champagne Lombard and terroir focus in Champagne
• Q&A with Matt Glunz from Glunz Family Winery
• I’ll Drink to That: Burgundy Vigneron Christophe Roumier (podcast)
• The Wine Makers – Brenae Royal (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• St. Helena AVA — What Everyone Should Know
• Pete Buttigieg: Why Not Try These Sonoma Wine Cave Experiences Next Time?
• Napa Valley’s Hesperian wine follows its own star
• The premium kosher wine industry is exploding. In California, that began with Hagafen Cellars.
• How an Unsung Wine Nation Opened Doors at New York Hot Spot

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Farm to Table? More Like Ghost Kitchen to Sofa

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Barn at Washington County winery catches fire, injuring 1 and displacing 5 horses

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• A Serious Vineyard Bug May Mean Turning Over A New Leaf In 2020
• New grape varieties promise pest resistance

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Gloucestershire wine business uncorks £8m investment

DOWN UNDER

• Here’s The Aussie Bushfire-Affected Wineries Who Need Your Support
• OZ: Farmers count cost of fires, but hopes new vintage not up in smoke
• Horror Christmas for Adelaide Hills wineries

LATIN AMERICA

• The Argentine Winemakers Shaping the Future of Malbec in the Uco Valley

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Expert Drinks Urine Thinking It’s 150-Year-Old Wine

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Beer Pros Predict The Next Decade Of Industry Trends