MAY 18, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Calif ABC set to take away due process rights & send violations to the courts – Comments due today
• Concern in Champagne as Sales Collapse
• Integrate or Collaborate: The Way Our Small Wine-Tech Industry Should Work
• Move over Millennials: GenZ has arrived! Could that be bad news for wine?
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

OBITUARIES

• L’Eglise Clinet owner and winemaker Denis Durantou dies
• Fond Farewell to Stewart Family Patriarch, Pioneer in Okanagan Viticulture

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa County to tackle wine country growth issues in COVID-19 world
• Healdsburg’s Jordan Winery wants to be the first to reopen. One hitch: It can’t serve wine
• How E. & J. Gallo Winery’s Barefoot Wine is navigating huge spike in at-home drinking
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

COVID-19 OPENING UP

• Planning, innovation are keys to recovery for Wine Country businesses from coronavirus economic crisis, experts say
• CDC offers advice for venues reopening after Covid-19
• Consumers hesitant to return to bars reopening in US
• Reopening Orders Posted for BC – Effective Tuesday May 19th
• Berkeley Will Fully Close Its Streets to Create Giant Outdoor Dining Rooms
• Oregon winery tasting rooms prepare to reopen to the public after coronavirus shutdown

COVID-19 DELAYS/CANCELLATIONS

• Médoc Marathon postponed to 2021

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• IWSR data compares BevAlc impact of COVID-19 with the 2008 recession
• O’Neill & Southern-Glazer’s Settle lawsuits over distro agreement termination in Five States

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Champagne Sales Suspended, Burgundy Wine Asks For Help
• Ciatti May 2020 California Report (PDF)
• Pandemic Fuels Wine Sales at Grocery & Convenience Stores per Latest Shopping Data Shared by Catalina and Koupon
• UK: Are we really drinking more wine during the coronavirus crisis?
• UK vineyards grapple with late frost
• From overwhelmed to organized: See how well Vineyard 29’s first harvest went with Vintrace (Sponsored)

HEALTH

• Turning wine industry waste into nutraceutical ingredients

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Coronavirus Pandemic Impacts Marijuana Legalization Efforts
• SLO County basically bans hemp cultivation
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels (Sponsored)

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Europe’s vineyards move further north
• Price on Carbon: Adding winemakers to the climate conversation
• Lack of global sustainability standard impeding consumer buy-in
• Pernod Ricard to scrap plastic POS materials

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Industry Veteran, Rob Foss, Joins LibDib
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• OZ: Bass Phillip sold

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Aussie exporters brace for more threats from China on trade
• Ingredient innovations and ‘healthier options’ key to survival for APAC alcohol sector

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• UNWTO Webinar May 20th: Wine tourism post Covid-19
• Webinar 5/19: How to assess wine sensitivity to oxidation

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Liv-ex offers checklist for merchants looking to accelerate e-sales
• Examining Germany’s place on the secondary market
• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – Fine Wine 50 rises 1% intraweek
• How do online wine auctions work?

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Covid creates ‘halters’ & ‘hedonists’
• More Wine Populist Nonsense
• An actual conversation I had with a wine critic who judges on the 100-point-scale

MARKETING & SALES

• Emetry and 5Forests Partner to Empower Wine Marketing
• Sex and Wine (video)
• White Claw Hard Seltzer to launch in the UK
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Europe Moves on Wine Ingredient Labeling
• Unpicking the closure dilemma of Isole e Olena’s Cepparello

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Vinexpo NY announces dates for 2021

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Coronavirus pandemic forces traveling winemakers to change plans

MEDIA MATTERS

• Professor Spotlight: Kelly Magyarics
• Wine Writing: Fact vs Opinion (video)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Sense of Smelling
• Ten Myths About Wine That Waste Your Time And Maybe A Lot Of Your Money

WINE PEOPLE

• Behind the Wines with Elaine Chukan Brown: Randall Grahm, Bonny Doon Vineyard (video)
• Talking Kutch Wines With Jamie Kutch
• Kerry Damskey – Going into More Details of Making Wine in Israel (video)
• Jacques de Klerk of Radford Dale focusing on site-specific wines in Stellenbosch, South Africa
• Jane Anson: Inside Bordeaux (video)
• Coronavirus and South African wine: Eben Sadie of Sadie Family Wines
• Coronavirus conversations: Angélica Valenzuela from Wines of Chile
• Coronavirus conversations: Philippe Marion

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• CO: COVID-19 won’t kill the wine industry, just the industry as we knew it

ACADEMIA

• Plumpton College’s Sam Hill on what he can offer the wine trade

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Pinot Blanc: Impact of the Winemaking Variables on the Evolution of the Phenolic, Volatile and Sensory Profiles

EUROPE & THE UK

• Coronavirus risk could stop Vijay Mallya’s extradition
• French wine industry not entirely convinced by coronavirus crisis plan
• Exciting times ahead for the Estonian wine industry
• Alexei Rosin takes the top job at Moët Hennessy UK

DOWN UNDER

• Sommeliers Australia and WSET to offer online wine and spirit training for hospitality workers
• A statement from Victoria Tourism Industry regarding reopening of the state’s hospitality industry
• NZ: Grape grower loses appeal against polluting decision
• NZ: Research on vineyard hail damage
• NZ: Pink preferences

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Nearly half of consumers return to China’s bars

LATIN AMERICA

• COVID-19 Update From Chile, As a Resilient Wine Industry Adapts To Current Needs And Conditions
• Brazil: Brave New World (video)

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa Drink Makers Puzzle on How to Ease Alcohol Ban
• Nik Darlington hopes Great British Braai Off can help South African wine

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Sales Rep Revolution: A parody of Les Misérables’ “One Day More” (video)

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Whiskey Sees Lockdown Boom As Rich Hit The Bottle
• Scientists create designer wheat for whisky production