MAY 14, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Canned Wines and Mixed Drinks Are Winning Stay-at-Home Drinking
• Millennials are Interested in Wine. Is Napa Interested in Them?
• Will the coronavirus make luxury Napa Valley wine less relevant?
• Wine.com closes in on $200 million in revenue
• The Wine Intelligentsia: Almost Always Wrong
• He Never Attended Fresno State, but His $4.66M Bequest Will Boost Wine, Irrigation Efforts
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Vine mealybug a menace in Monterey County
• Calif: Wine adjusts to evolving marketplace amid pandemic
• In A Quieter Sonoma, Wildlife Enjoys Wine Country
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

COVID-19 OPENING UP

• U.S. Wineries Cautiously Begin Reopening Phase
• Wine Institute advises on new dine-in guidelines

COVID-19 LEGAL & REGULATORY RELIEF

• Updated PPP Guidance Deems Smaller Loans ‘Necessary’
• Pandemic Relief Update: Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• May US alcohol sales rise at highest rate since lockdown peak
• O’Neill & Southern-Glazer’s Settle lawsuits over distro agreement termination in Five States

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Major Wholesalers’ Take On The Current Wine Sales Picture
• Director of Ciatti reveals affect of Covid-19 on bulk wine
• Concha y Toro brings harvest forward to tackle one of most challenging harvests yet
• WA: Wine Grape Harvest 2019 Pt 2 (podcast)
• From overwhelmed to organized: See how well Vineyard 29’s first harvest went with Vintrace (Sponsored)

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

DROUGHT/WATER

• Drought, water shortages return to much of California
• Developing a water budget
• Scott Dam slated for removal in plan by Sonoma County and partners to control hydropower project

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• The start-up disrupting wine carbon offsets

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Total Wine & More wins round in court fight to open in Indiana
• TTB Approved 180.1K Products Over Last Twelve Months through April 2020, An Increase of 8.7K (+5.1%)

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Most-Asked Questions from the Sovos ShipCompliant–WineDirect–Enolytics Webinar, Post-Pandemic Planning: Customer Engagement for the Road Ahead
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine hires heavy hitter as executive exodus continues
• Willamette Valley Vineyards Posts a Profit for Q1 2020

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Souring China Ties Threaten Australian Farmers in Trade Spat

DATA & TRENDS

• 5 Charts: How Coronavirus Has Impacted Digital Grocery

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• The World Is Thirsty For Sparkling Wines, But Which Are The Winners?

MARKETING & SALES

• Millennials vital to Champagne’s future
• DTC Marketing Dilemma: Covid 2.0 and Beyond
• Radio wine ad: Stiller & Meara for Blue Nun
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Preparations for ProWine China 2020 in full swing
• Eima is open for business this year

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Washington sets virus rules for farmworker housing
• NASS turns attention to farm labor survey

MEDIA MATTERS

• All the Wine That’s Fit to Print
• Winemaker Larry Brooks Launches Website Highlighting Scholarly and Creative Writing
• Peter Stafford-Bow introduces the next vinous adventure for Felix Hart

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Three Sardinian wine grapes to know
• Ephemera the Beautiful

WINE PEOPLE

• Coronavirus and South African wine: Johan Reyneke of Reyneke Wines
• Coronavirus conversations: Rodolfo Bastida

WINE EDUCATION

• Diageo debuts digital on-trade educational platform

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• [Updated] Technomic’s Take: COVID-19, The Foodservice View

ACADEMIA

• David Wilson remembered for innovative cancer research in nutrition field, including the health benefits of red wine

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• TX: Carter Creek Winery plants Wonderful Nurseries’ first PD resistant vines
• Vineyard mechanization putting people first
• Champagne: Advanced Topics (video)

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK wine consumption frequency up, but spend less per bottle
• Still wine wins out as UK drinking occasions rise to new heights
• Roberson talks supercharging online sales as UK e-commerce soars to 10 year high

DOWN UNDER

• Education key to success for Wine Communicators of Australia
• OZ: A new direction in wine marketing

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• HK wine importers call for government support

LATIN AMERICA

• Wines of Argentina appoints new president

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa’s Bulk Wine Producers Fear the Long-term Knock of the Lockdown

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Russia’s health minister wants to raise legal drinking age to 21

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Craft brewers upended by COVID-19 closure of tap rooms, bars