MARCH 16, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Tips for Selling Wine in a Pandemic: Silicon Valley Bank
• TTB allows returns of products purchased for events cancelled due to COVID-19
• Dueling To Kalon lawsuits — Constellation & The Vineyard House — scheduled for trial in federal court
• Tasting room shut because of COVID-19? — Use Zoom (or teleconference site of your choice) to hold online tastings.
• 12 Proactive Legal/Compliance COVID-19 actions for Wineries
• Calif Gov Issues Guidance on tasting rooms, bars: Reload link periodically for ABC Updates
• How Your Marketing Can Respond to COVID-19
• By 2028, women will own 75% of the discretionary spend
• 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)

• Maison Louis Roederer to purchase Napa Valley’s Diamond Creek Vineyards
• Advertising integrity issues still plague Wine Business Monthly as email to advertisers fails to address concerns raised by media buyers, ad agencies and auditors
• Anemic subscription base may have prompted Wine Business Monthly’s questionable advertising promotions
• Attend USA Trade Tasting to discover the fastest growing and upcoming wines, beers and spirits brands for your portfolio. Register your visitor pass here. (Sponsored)

COVID-19 CANCELLATIONS/DELAYS

• Coronavirus update: Drinks trade disruption deepens as events moved or postponed
• WSWA 77th Annual Convention & Exposition Cancelled
• WiVi Central Coast and Central Coast Insights Postponed Until August 26-27, 2020
• Women in Wine Expo 2020 – Cancelled
• American Beverage Licensees Statement Regarding Indefinite Postponement of ABL Annual Meeting
• Wines from Spain annual trade tasting postponed
• Coronavirus concern cancels next month’s Craft Brewers Conference

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• The days of wine and tariffs weigh heavily on local wine importers
• OZ: Hunter Valley Wine and Tourism Association reports $76 million economic loss after drought, bushfires, smoke taint and coronavirus
• Ciatti March 2020 Global Market Report (PDF)
• Vineyards get early start in SW Idaho

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Valley anxious after Newsom calls for halt to wine tasting
• How to Help The Hospitality Industry During COVID-19 Bar Closures
• California plans to use private hotels, motels to shelter homeless people as coronavirus spreads
• Napa Winemakers’ After-Hours Passion Projects Fuel Creativity and Community
• Why attend USA Trade Tasting 2020 (Sponsored)

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 – Scroll down to bottom for in-depth, extended coverage

• COVID-19 Relief: Financial Resources to Help Wine and Tourism Businesses
• Workers without sick leave are likely to work while ill (and risk infecting customers)
• The latest coronavirus panic buy: Wine and spirits
• The Importance of In-house Communications in Times of Crisis
• Coronavirus spurs concerns for farmworkers
• What does COVID-19 mean to the global wine industry?

ONLINE PRIVACY

• New Federal Privacy Bill Would Let Consumers Delete Their Data

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Yountville voters can weigh in on cannabis retailing on November ballot
• Depletion: Why and How To Build Your Brand Around It (Sponsored)

AMAZON

• Amazon Glitch Stymies Whole Foods, Fresh Grocery Deliveries

DROUGHT/WATER

• Some good news: after record dry February, a sudden shift toward wetter conditions
• New science or just spin: science charade in the Delta

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• 6th Circuit Wine Retailer Shipping Case: Part I

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Inside Ecommerce: Connecting Craft Spirits to Digital Customers
• Strategies to help you grow your Sales: Grow Your Beverage Business with Sid Patel *(Sponsored)

REAL ESTATE

• Calistoga mountain ranch on the market for $9,950,000

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – Amid global Covid-19 uncertainty fine wine offers stability

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Is there value-for-money in the Wine Spectator Top 100 List?
• Tasting wine without scores or metaphors
• Star Wine List’s Krister Bengtsson on the world’s best wine lists
• Phelps Insignia, Jackass Zin and a Vice Bust: How the World Celebrated Open That Bottle Night

MARKETING & SALES

• Wine demographics in focus
• How To Sell Wine Without Samples
• U.S. Wine Industry Faces An Uncertain Immediate Future
• Creating A Successful Brand Launch In The US *(Sponsored)

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• La Paulée de New York celebrates twentieth anniversary

MEDIA MATTERS

• Ten Years In The Life Of Italy’s Slow Wine Guide
• Book Review: Wine. All The Time

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Bordeaux is the original ‘wine blend,’ but it’s more contemporary and affordable than you might think
• What is Burgundy? Part four: The Burgundian Inheritance
• Furmint Finding Fame, but Hungary has Much More to its Game

WINE PEOPLE

• SA Wine Legends: Madame May-Eliane de Lencquesaing
• Unfiltered: Lucy Ward, Wilder
• Q&A: Christopher Delalonde MS, The Dorchester
• Getting Geeky with Nik Weis St. Urbans-Hof Rieslings

WINE PLACES

• LaBarge’s Controlled Quest for Wine Perfection

WINE EDUCATION

• Seven new Masters of Wine

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• AZ: Verde Valley close to becoming a designated wine region
• Oregon Wine Council Pt 2 (podcast)

EUROPE & THE UK

• Bordeaux needs to “come out of the closet”

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: After the bushfires and drought, you need to change the way you drink
• Australian wine industry in challenging times

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• The Bold Brewers Fighting for Saké’s Future
• Autumn Stoscheck of Eve’s Cidery is Shining A Light on Cider’s Potential in the Finger Lakes, New York

—EXTENDED CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 COVERAGE—

WINE TASTING/SALES

• The Best Wine And Alcohol Delivery Services To Get You Through A Coronavirus Quarantine
• Dallas-area wine shops seeing an increase in sales and delivery requests amid coronavirus pandemic
• No Sports, No Pasta, No Bread, But There’s Wine. Oh, and Tequila
• Wine Tasting in the Age of Corona

RESTAURANTS

• Governors of New York, Illinois, California and Ohio call for shut down of restaurants and bars to prevent spread of coronavirus
• How The Central Texas Restaurant Community Is Coping With The Covid-19 Crisis
• NY: Warning issued to bars violating occupancy rules during COVID-19 response
• Sonoma County restaurants see sharp drop in business as coronavirus concerns deter diners

ECONOMY/FINANCE

• Campari donates 1 million euros to tackle coronavirus outbreak
• Coronavirus and a Looming Recession: How to Raise Capital in Uncertain Times
• The coronavirus economy: As Americans shy away from malls and movie theaters, the damage to livelihoods grows
• Fed to pump in more than $1 trillion in dramatic ramping up of market intervention amid coronavirus meltdown

REGIONAL COVERAGE

• Amid declining travel, Napa’s wine industry braces for coronavirus impact
• WA: Ste. Michelle Wine Estates closes wineries, tasting rooms to public
• Pa. Liquor Control Board Closing Fine Wine & Good Spirits Stores As Part Of Coronavirus Prevention In Eastern Pennsylvania
• Sonoma County reports second coronavirus case contracted in community
• First confirmed case of coronavirus in Santa Barbara County

INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE

• LVMH to produce hand sanitiser for French hospitals
• Champagne Deutz draws backlash over China comments
• Italian winery releases ‘reassuring’ wine bottle to support coronavirus relief
• Italy’s Vineyards in Lockdown Limbo
• Letter from Italy: “We will be reborn.”

OTHER COVID-19 COVERAGE

• Alphabet’s Verily To Launch COVID-19 Website Late Monday
• LIVE BLOG: How Coronavirus Is Impacting The Drinks Industry
• Keep Calm, Socially Distance and Have Some Wine
• [With all respect] A Personal Punch-List for the Quarantined