MAY 28, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Nielsen: Big wineries grab 70% of COVID sales – Table and sparkling wine continue off-premise surge – DtC average price declines
• State efforts to ease restrictions on to-go wine clash with Napa County regulations
• Ingredient Labeling: A Winemaker Strikes Back
• Across California, Wineries Are Reopening … Sort Of
• Millennial unemployment has suffered especially hard due to COVID-19. May put GenX back in economic driver’s seat.
• Gaining control of complex custom crush operations (Sponsored)

OBITUARIES

• Remembering Giacomo Bersanetti, a wine design great, victim of COVID-19

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Valley shouldn’t expect tourism to substantially bounce back until 2021
• The California Iconoclasts Producing Approachable Yet Cellarable Wines
• The SoCal Wine Country Where Experimentation Reigns Supreme
• Boutique winemakers: Save time and effort this harvest season with this new production app! Click now to learn more! (Sponsored)

COVID-19 OPENING UP

• Bring your own mask: Napa Valley wineries get ready for reopening

COVID-19 SURVIVAL

• ‘Diversity and flexibility’ may replace specialism longer term

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Wine premiumization battered by coronavirus
• 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

• Chinese wine drinkers up import wine purchase volume amid pandemic
• Cava, in crisis, moves to limit production
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

HEALTH

• Scientists find genetic link to alcohol misuse

WILDFIRES

• OZ: Almost $1m pledged to evaluate smoke affected Victorian wine

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

DROUGHT/WATER

• A look at the Friant Kern Canal Middle Reach Capacity Correction Project

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Researchers examine climate change perception among specialty-crop producers

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Mass. SJC Allows Beer, Wine Sale Ballot Question to Move Forward
• Illinois State Court Issues Strong Ruling for the Illinois Beer Industry Fair Dealing Act
• Additional Retailer Shipping Lawsuit Filed in Rhode Island
• Total Wine Wins Injunction in Indiana District Court on Residency Challenge

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• How technology partnerships improve DtC compliance
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• OZ: Reality check on finding new export markets – China’s demand dwarfs the rest

DISTRIBUTORS

• Breakthru Beverage Group Chief Financial Officer Gene Luciana to Shift to Strategic Advisory Role, Melissa Calderwood Named as CFO Successor

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• The Future of Travel Free Webinar

BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR 2019

• Bordeaux 2019: En Primeur with Liv-ex
• Pontet Canet 2019 released

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Wine scores rant: Top-notch cava gets 86 points, about the same as a crummy supermarket wine

MARKETING & SALES

• Treasury Wine Estates highlights success of 19 Crimes brand
• UM Named Agency of Record for E. & J. Gallo Winery
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Sangiovese And Other Native Grapes Of Italy’s Romagna
• Rival Beauties

WINE PEOPLE

• Q&A: Jen and Zach Pelka of Une Femme

WINE PLACES

• Champagne AR Lenoble: trying to celebrate 100 years in a pandemic

WINE HISTORY

• Roman mosaic unearthed under Italian vineyard

WINE TOURISM

• 5 Ways The Pandemic Will Change The Future Of Tours

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• What the Future of Restaurants Might Look Like
• What If Nobody Wants to Save New York’s Restaurants?

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Pushing the boundaries of New York wines
• Garagiste Wine Room & Merchant’s Co-Owners on the Changing Face of Wine in Las Vegas (podcast)

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• UC tests biological tools against vine mealybug
• Healthy soils make for healthier vineyards
• Combining efforts to boost return on mechanization

EUROPE & THE UK

• Italian winemakers see trouble ahead
• UK: ‘Wine online’ searches up by over 1000%
• French court rules insurer must pay restaurant owner Covid losses

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Reasons to be cheerful about wine in China

SOUTH AFRICA

• South African wine industry on its knees as lockdown set to ease

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Pandemic could be ‘great leveller’ for small brands