MAY 26, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• US wine importers must not go back to old ways: Silicon Valley bank
• The huge COVID increase in online wine sales could be peaking
• Ingredient labeling: Time for US Wine to Follow the EU
• Boxed Wine Sales Surge Around The World And Will Keep Going
• US on-trade sales grow 25% as lockdowns are lifted
• Will the Wine Industry Learn the Lessons of the Pandemic?
• Get Drinks Delivered Reaches 1000 Merchants
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

OBITUARIES

• OZ: Industry mourns loss of Tasmanian vigneron Vaughn Dell

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa County’s Chappellet winery secures visitor, wine production boosts
• Sonoma County supervisors revisit guidelines for wineries in tourist hotspots amid pandemic
• California just made it easier for bars, wineries, distilleries to offer to-go drinks
• ‘What about us?’: Napa Valley wineries wonder when tasting rooms can reopen, as local eateries welcome back diners
• City approves ‘creative’ outdoor dining for Sonoma restaurants
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

COVID-19 OPENING UP

• Oregon winery deploys ultraviolet light technology in coronavirus battle
• Best Management Practices for Craft Beverage Tastings During the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF)
• Return To Restaurants: Our First Post-Lockdown Meal Out, With Wine

COVID-19 SURVIVAL

• Hidden Treasures for Sale as Restaurants Sell Wine Curbside; Our 1994 Meursault

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Wine Sales Defy Doom and Gloom: SVB Update
• Vineyard House, Constellation Trial over To Kalon to start in Aug.
• JaM Cellars files for new preliminary injunction against Wine Group’s Franzia

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Covid-19 Is Decimating Champagne Sales — but Not All Bubbly Is Impacted
• Has the Prosecco bubble burst?
• Australia wine exports dented by coronavirus in first four months
• Recalibrated Consumption Dynamics in a COVID-19 Altered World – Nielsen
• From overwhelmed to organized: See how well Vineyard 29’s first harvest went with Vintrace (Sponsored)

HEALTH

• The Many Faces of the ‘Wine Mom’

WILDFIRES

• OZ: Grants now open for NSW wineries impacted by bushfires

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

DROUGHT/WATER

• Calif: State Water Project Allocation Increases to 20 Percent
• An Introduction to State Water Project Deliveries

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Biochar: the Vineyard’s Next Big Thing
• Quarter of agricultural land in Europe to be organic by 2030

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Alternative Assets: Fine wine offers stability amid global uncertainty
• Demand for US and Italian wines leads fine wine investment spike
• Liv-ex fine wine market turns 20
• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – Harlan Estate 2016 leads trade by value

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• What Our Wine Choices Say About Our State Of Mind During COVID-19

MARKETING & SALES

• How Producers are Rethinking Rosé in 2020
• Selling Wine at Every Level (video)
• Aviation Gin ad subject of DISCUS code complaint and finding is a good reminder that industry advertising guidelines are sometimes at odds with inventiveness, humor, and parody… but a law or regulation would have to acknowledge those things.
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Canned wine is far from wrong, it’s everything we need and more
• Ingredient Labeling May Soon Show Up On Your Favorite Wine

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Taking the lid off the world of influencers (video)
• In defence of wine influencers

MEDIA MATTERS

• Inside Bordeaux by Jane Anson: The châteaux, the wines and their terroir
• Writing, With Karen MacNeil (video)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Orange is the New Black (video)
• The Challenge of Hybrid Grape Varietals
• Under the Influence…

WINE PEOPLE

• Napa sparkling wine trailblazer Eileen Crane of Domaine Carneros reveals the passion behind her long career
• Ryan Deovlet Of Deovlet Wines
• Duncan Forsyth of Mount Edward Winery in the Gibbston Valley of Central Otago, New Zealand talks about winemaking in lockdown (podcast)
• Dusty Nabor – Dusty Nabor Wines (podcast)
• Interview: Pioneers of Place
• Behind the Wines with Elaine Chukan Brown: Paul Draper, Ridge Vineyards (video)
• C. Mondavi & Family CEO talks about now and what’s ahead
• Nashville Sommelier Kenton Embry Wants to Elevate Your Experience With Wine
• Sunday Vinyl Sommelier Clara Klein Will Help You Find Wine that’s ‘Yummy and Gulpable’
• Full Pull Wines Owner Paul Zitarelli on Taking Chances and Embracing Risk in Online Retail (podcast)
• Glass half full for left-handed lady of wine
• The Master Winemaker 100: Robert Eden, Château Maris

WINE PLACES

• Sicily is deservedly in the wine spotlight these days
• The Best European Wine Regions You’ve Never Heard Of

WINE EDUCATION

• Get a WSET qualification without leaving home

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Cost of establishment and production of V. vinifera grapes in the Finger Lakes region of New York – 2019 (PDF)
• NY: How “Cost of Establishment and Production of V. vinifera Grapes” has changed since 1997 (PDF)

ACADEMIA

• Five Questions for Lynn Sosnoskie

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Cap management in winemaking: punching, pumping and considerations
• The Science of Terpenes and Isoprenoids
• Stuck and Sluggish Fermentation: Causes & Preventive Steps
• Strategies and Solutions for High pH Winemaking (video)
• A New, Satellite NDVI-Based Sampling Protocol for Grape Maturation Monitoring
• Elimination of the Crown Gall Pathogen, Agrobacterium vitis, from Systematically Infected Grapevines by Tissue Culture
• Effects of polyphenols on secondary structure of VVTL1 wine protein

EUROPE & THE UK

• Kevin Shaw and his “Eureka” moment for the UK wine industry
• Late English frost: how Ambriel, Flint and Harrow & Hope coped
• The director of the wine subsidiary of France’s leading co-operative group leaves suddenly
• France: Storage firm refurbishes 15 tanks to hold 190,000 hl of wines from crisis distillation measures
• Two out of the UK’s top five alcohol brands are wine

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Riverland wine region pushes to make mark on labels, as growers shrug off industry stigma
• OZ: Rutherglen winemakers use downturn to make space and be strategic, despite hardships
• OZ: Some drinking more, but alcohol sales down

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa to lift alcohol sales ban for home drinking
• South African Wine History: On South Africa’s wine lake (and how it was drained)

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Russia: one of the wine world’s most under-appreciated markets (video)

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Finding Love Among the Grapevines

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Americans are drinking more during the pandemic. Craft distillers aren’t getting any of the love
• Yeast, Rising: Distillers are rediscovering the role unique yeast strains can play in flavor differentiation.
• Asahi to borrow US$11bn to buy Carlton & United Breweries