MAY 20, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Cal ABC: More COVID Relief – Expanded Footprints, Club rules & Catering Auths
• Vineyard House, Constellation Trial over To Kalon to start in Aug.
• JaM Cellars files for new preliminary injunction against Wine Group’s Franzia
• Average Bottle Price Drops 21% for DTC Channel in April
• Napa County releases crop report; 2019 wine grape crop worth $938 million
• Sad restaurant reopenings so far: Wary patrons shy away
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Tyranny as a Peril of Pandemic—The California ABC Power Grab
• Napa County can begin offering dine-in restaurant service
• Sonoma County tweaking plans in hopes of reopening restaurants, wineries other businesses
• Balletto Vineyards Adds Maureen McElroy to Events Team
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

COVID-19 OPENING UP

• 6 workforce issues restaurant employers may face as they reopen
• How Will Restaurants Reopen After Coronavirus? As Grocery Stores
• Oregon Wineries Open Doors
• Oregon Wine Reopens Pt 2 (podcast)

COVID-19 LEGAL & REGULATORY RELIEF

• PPP loan forgiveness application published

COVID-19 SURVIVAL

• States Allowing Alcohol To-Go Sales For Restaurants

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Total Wine Biz Is Booming—and Laying Off Workers
• O’Neill & Southern-Glazer’s Settle lawsuits over distro agreement termination in Five States

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Alcohol sales dazzle again
• Alcohol weathers Covid-19 peaks and troughs to become second highest food and drink growth category
• Prosecco falls flat down under: Italian fizz flounders among sparkling wine consumers
• Portugal vs France
• How drinking habits have changed during lockdown
• Unprecedented – vines bloom exceptionally early across France
• From overwhelmed to organized: See how well Vineyard 29’s first harvest went with Vintrace (Sponsored)

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Q&A: Cannabis Delivery Is in the Spotlight Due to COVID-19. What’s Next?
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels (Sponsored)

DROUGHT/WATER

• Reclamation updates 2020 Central Valley Project water allocations
• Klamath Project Drought Response Agency continues helping farmers

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• NZ: Wine industry to lead in cutting carbon
• OZ: Wine waste ripe for upcycle

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Support SB3830 Illinois Wine Retailer shipping Bill: It brings in needed revenue and impacts safety during COVID-19 Crisis

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Walmart says it will discontinue Jet, which it acquired for $3B in 2016
• Drizly Hires 2 New Executives, Names New Board Member

AGRIFOODTECH

• Q&A: John Cumbers on how synthetic biology will change us

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Australia vows to stand up to China amid reports wine and dairy exports could be targeted next

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Burgundy leads Sotheby’s HK spring sale

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• COVID-19 consumer behavior: Common experience, different response?

MARKETING & SALES

• Nick Martin on how Wine Owners can help transform fine wine merchants
• BevStrat strengthens salesforce for off-premise channel
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• France Launches Official Natural Wine Certification. Does Anyone Really Want It?
• Oak Ridge Winery Refreshes 3 Girls Portfolio Packaging with Homage to Maggio Sisters

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• The Booming Popularity of Instagram Live Wine Events
• Facebook and Instagram roll out Shops, turning business profiles into storefronts

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Your Guide to Piemonte Wine
• Wine: Tragic Beauty Worthy of Shakespeare
• Splendid isolation

WINE PEOPLE

• Rob Mercer adds to his family’s legacy as honorary grower
• Coronavirus conversations: Richard Burch

ACADEMIA

• NC: Surry Community College’s wine program to add tasting-room training

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Why are bees important in the vineyard?
• Sharpshooter Insects’ Sexy Vibrations Spell Trouble in the Vineyard
• WSU virologist encourages grape growers to test more often
• The WISHELI project: development of new production technics to improve the shelf life of white wines from the Umbrian region in Italy – a test to predict the aging capacity of a wine

DOWN UNDER

• How Australian wineries have pivoted to online sales during COVID-19
• How COVID-19 is changing Australia’s domestic wine market
• OZ: Riverland approaching a new future

LATIN AMERICA

• Frost, drought and coronavirus push South America’s VSPT Wine Group ‘to the limit’

SOUTH AFRICA

• What will the South African wine landscape look like after the pandemic?
• Coronavirus and South African wine: Lukas van Loggerenberg of Van Loggerenberg Wines