MAY 11, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Value wines surge in the Great Lockdown Wine Boom
• Register for State of the Wine Industry Special Edition May 21
• Italy reigns in global bottled wine exports; Spain #1 in bulk. U.S. also ran: OIV
• US off-trade must maintain 22% sales growth
• Champagne maker conned out of fizz fortune by ‘secret agent’
• Normal people find tasting notes absurd
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• The Grapelord of Napa Faces a Threat Worse Than Plague
• Calif: Potential Penalty Relief for Late Property Tax Payments Related to COVID-19
• File under ‘less bad’: Slight increase in hotel demand brings hope to industry hit hard by coronavirus pandemic
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

COVID-19 OPENING UP

• Wine Industry May face Year-long Convalescence from COVID-19
• California says restaurants reopening too early could lose their liquor license
• More states lift coronavirus-related dine-in restrictions with social distancing and limits on capacity
• New dining formats
• Amsterdam restaurant to trial ‘quarantine greenhouse’ concept

COVID-19 LEGAL & REGULATORY RELIEF

• Was Your PPP Loan ‘Necessary’? If Not, There Could Be Horrific Repercussions
• Should I Return My Small-Business Loan?

COVID-19 SURVIVAL

• 10 Pandemic-Inspired Business Trends That Are Here to Stay
• How COVID-19 is making ‘warriors’ out of wine entrepreneurs

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Rebalancing the ‘COVID-19 Effect’ on Alcohol Sales – Nielsen
• Bryant Family Vineyards owners win dismissal of consultant’s compensation case
• Special Premium Report: Industry and investor guide to Wine/Viticulture-relevant AgTech technologies and companies

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• A “Polar Vortex” Delivers Frosty Weather in Some Eastern Wine Regions
• How Chile’s 2020 vintage looks after year of extremes
• NZ Sauvignon blanc sales soar
• Off-trade sales of Australian wine bucked downward trend in March due to Covid-19
• OH: Local grape growers seem to have dodged bullet
• Champagne shipments decline
• From overwhelmed to organized: See how well Vineyard 29’s first harvest went with Vintrace (Sponsored)

HEALTH

• Wine & Medicine: An Enduring Historical Association
• Alcohol abuse and COVID-19
• New Motherhood While Working In Wine: An Update During COVID-19

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels (Sponsored)

DROUGHT/WATER

• How reliable are Groundwater Sustainability Plans?

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• The role of attitudes and tolerance of ambiguity in explaining consumers’ willingness to pay for organic wine
• Sustainability: An Advantage in any Market (podcast)
• European wine industry joins glass recycling project

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• US Wine, Beer & Spirits Market & Communitization
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• OZ: Free trade with Indonesia to support a future wine growth prospect

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Charity Wine Auctions Are Employing New Strategies to Support Communities

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Wine Drinkers are from Venus; Wine Tasters are from Mars

MARKETING & SALES

• Your Location Data Can Help You Lift Sales
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Porto Protocol’s online climate debate puts bottle weight in the crosshairs

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Vinexpo releases its fair dates
• ENOFORUM WEB the first virtual congress in the world of wine

MEDIA MATTERS

• How do Covid-19 lock-downs affect wine blog readership?
• Alternative Media (video)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Forbidden Fruit: Multi-vintage Wine Blends
• Chalk: Wine’s White Gold
• The Eight “Killer” Foods That Can Make Wine Taste Terrible-Foods that make Wine tastes Terrible
• A Global Guide to Sémillon, A White Wine with Incredible Range
• Understanding Bordeaux appellations
• We’ll Always Have Napa: Read This, Then Shut Your Eyes and Imagine
• Petite Sirah in France? A Flip of the Coin at Clos Hirissou

WINE PEOPLE

• The Mondavi Sisters Talk Wine Amidst COVID-19
• I’ll Drink to That: Wine Educator and Sommelier Kevin Zraly (podcast)
• DCanter’s Michael Warner and wine retail trends during the duration (podcast)
• Richard Duckitt from Bellingham on Radio Helderberg (podcast)
• Q&A: Rob Symington

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Coronavirus-related restaurant and bar industry job losses totaled 5.5 million in April

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Top importers assess New York State’s export opportunities

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Early season canopy management – webinar review
• Clearing the haze for white wine makers
• Unleash your creativity with oak adjuncts, alternative barrels, and wood and toast varieties

EUROPE & THE UK

• Austria’s Wachau gets protected wine status
• Italian Wineries Anxiously Await a Return to Normalcy
• Bass Phillip announces new Burgundian chief winemaker
• Consultant winemaker Michel Rolland intends to slow down, “but will always be there to holler”
• Michel Rolland sells company shares to employees

DOWN UNDER

• Optimism in the Barossa wine industry on the rise following poor start to 2020
• OZ: Wine industry working together on cash flow

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• India: The Other Emerging Market (video)

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa Debate: lockdown impact & need for global support
• South Africa’s Glenelly and Kanonkop on coping with Covid-19 crisis
• Coronavirus and South African wine: Mike Ratcliffe of Vilafonté

AROUND THE GLOBE

• How to make Lebanese wine during a plague & a revolution

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Jon Piana Of Fable Farm On The Quest For Terroir Cider
• Vermont Terroir Cider: A Moment In Time (video)