JANUARY 28, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Napa winery permits could go from $100,000 to $500 under new proposal
• Stock-Picking Wisdom Could Save a Quarter of the World’s Vineyards
• Super Bowl AlcBev choices shifted by multicultural influences – Nielsen
• Legal challenges to 2020 Employment laws have begun!
• Predictive Analytics: Transforming Data into Answers
• America’s Top 13 Charity Wine Auctions Raised $44.1 Million in 2019
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

OBITUARIES

• Huyshe Bower of Fladgate Partnership dies

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• 2 Whetstone Wine investors convicted in billion-dollar solar Ponzi scheme
• These are all the other things holding wine back
• Mailchimp can be a privacy black hole
• 7 proven ways to boost wine restaurant sales

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Wine is under threat from climate change, so change to hardier grapes, experts warn
• South Africa: Flagstone’s 2020 Harvest Begins
• Moldova Hits New Records in Wine Exports
• Grow your restaurant’s visibility! Enter the Sommeliers Choice Awards. DEADLINE January 31 (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Zepponi & Company names Kevin O’Brien principal of wine, beer, spirits M&A firm
• Vintage Point Partners with Napa’s Hindsight Vineyards
• Strike & Techel changes their name to Strike Kerr & Johns
• Lodi Wine unveils new brand identity
• Craig Root, wine industry veteran, shares tasting room secrets at UC Davis class
• Valley of the Moon Garden Club to present talk on vineyard management
• California woman dies after clothing gets stuck in raisin-processing machine
• This insider look at distributor Friday meetings can spotlight your wine (Sponsored)

HEALTH

• The science behind nonalcoholic spirits

WILDFIRES

• Free smoke taint tests for Aussie bushfire-hit grape growers

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• BTN launches new podcast: The Wine, Whiskey and Weed Show *(Sponsored)

DROUGHT/WATER

• CA: State Water Project allocation increases to 15 percent

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Genetic marking discovery improves fruit quality, bolsters climate defenses
• English Sparkling Wines Challenge the Supremacy of Champagne, France—Thanks to Climate Change

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• US and Bolivia sign deal to protect Bourbon and Singani

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Serving up the value in the DTC Flywheel: course-by-course
• The surge of hard seltzer
• Strategies to help you grow your Sales: Grow Your Beverage Business with Sid Patel *(Sponsored)

REAL ESTATE

• MI: Vinomondo Winery is for sale in Fort Gratiot

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine lowers outlook, U.S. tactics, Australian fires threaten margins
• Moët Alters the Balance in Champagne

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Bev, Female-First Beverage Brand, Announces Investment Led by Erin and Sara Foster, Rich Paul, Simon Tikhman, Keith Sheldon, and Chief Zaruk
• Hattingley Valley secures £7.5m funding

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• ‘Buy now’ advice for Burgundy 2018 reds as quality outstrips 2015

DATA & TRENDS

• Origin, Timing, Provenance and Quality: Is Data the New Wine?
• 2019’s Drink Trends: Tito’s Top Spirit In U.S.; No/Low Continues To Grow

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How to Elevate Wine Service in a Casual Setting
• How can a wine be pointy and sharp?: Using topic modeling to demystify wine reviews
• Wine list as bottleneck

MARKETING & SALES

• Three Easy Ways to Start Segmenting Your Email Lists
• Creating A Successful Brand Launch In The US *(Sponsored)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Beer, wine, spirit makers pledge age-restriction labels on drinks
• Italian Winery Adopts Interactive Screw-Caps With Blockchain Verification

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Tyson Stelzer on bringing Taste Champagne back for UK buyers
• Turning Vinexpo doubters into believers
• AIDV Canada Launches: Conference Set for Feb 24th

MEDIA MATTERS

• ‘Sideways’ Comes to Off-Broadway, Makes Peace with Merlot?
• The Movie ‘Sideways’ Is Back—This Time, On Broadway
• Wine Book Review: Back to the Future? Strong, Sweet & Dry

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Understanding Microbial Terroir in Wine
• The changing colour of rosé

WINE PEOPLE

• A Conversation With Winemaker Mike Sinor
• Abe Schoener: the thought-leader vigneron, opening a new urban winery in LA

WINE PLACES

• Piemonte’s Chiara Boschis: ‘We Are The Guardians Of The Natural World. The Revolution Is Almost Completed!’
• Pope Valley Winery, A True Napa Valley Discovery

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Nearly One in Four in U.S. Have Cut Back on Eating Meat

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Fungicide resistance a growing concern

EUROPE & THE UK

• France: 600 winegrowers fined for not planting vines
• Scotland: Alcohol off-sales fall in first year of minimum pricing
• ‘Appellation not grape variety’ is the way forward for Portuguese wine

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Coronavirus and China’s wine market

LATIN AMERICA

• Mendoza: An Argentine Wine Journey

SOUTH AFRICA

• Wine tastes good, but labor conditions in South African wine industry remain appalling

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• How Mead Went From ‘Game of Thrones’ to Brooklyn Bars