MAY 29, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Caymus Sues Calif To Speed Tasting Room Reopening
• Expensive Wine Sales Eclipsed by Hard Seltzer
• Consumer Confidence Stabilizes, But Hides More COVID-Related Vulnerabilities & Pessimism
• Liability protection sought in coronavirus assistance package
• COVID re-opening guidelines for commercial real estate
• Gaining control of complex custom crush operations (Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• DO Cava drops harvest maximums by 17% for 2020
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• California wineries prepare for visitors and a new normal
• Roche opens large new winery facility in Sonoma
• Sullivan Rutherford Estate outlines transition to new management team, revived emphasis on quality, preservation of winery history
• Santa Barbara Eateries’ Sidewalk Booze Applications Get ‘Red-Carpet Treatment’
• Meet the entrepreneur making tours of Napa Valley wineries a (virtual) reality
• Sonoma County Sheriff: Deputies will no longer enforce coronavirus public health order
• California lockdown layoffs climb to 4.6M, but number of new claims and insured unemployed continue downward trend
• 2020 a ‘nutty’ year (California) in more ways than one

COVID-19 OPENING UP

• The Ethics of Reopening Restaurants
• ASVO releases addendum to the Wine Show Best Practice Recommendations
• California’s rushed reopening carries deadly COVID-19 risks
• The convoluted logic behind California’s winery tasting room reopening plan
• Sonoma County says no more business reopenings for 2 weeks; Marin preps for return to offices, outdoor retail

COVID-19 SURVIVAL TIPS

• Southern French wine regions announce €34m Covid recovery plan
• Hennessy Establishes $3 Million Small Business Recovery Initiative
• Wine Aid Aims to Keep Chefs in Work and Wineries in Business One Case of Vino at a Time

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• $400,000 of Wine Was Cooked During Shipping to an Auction House

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• California winery finds a clever way to cut carbon pollution
• Researchers examine climate change perception among specialty-crop producers

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Ingredient Labeling: A Winemaker Strikes Back

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Reasons to be cheerful about wine in China
• Global wine trends react to Coronavirus
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Constellation & Gallo Revise Wine & Spirits Deal
• Flint buys buys Domaine Direct
• Edible alcohol brand Ethyl Ambrosia raises $450k in funding

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Chinese market remains bullish despite suffering Australian exports

MARKETING & SALES

• The Future of Virtual Wine Tourism
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Ardagh to manufacture wine bottles for Wollersheim Winery

MATTERS OF TASTE

• In a German Restaurant, the Sommelier Lifts His Mask to Smell the Wine
• The Science Behind the Main Wine Aromas, Explained
• Rediscovering Wine After Covid-19
• The Reincarnation of Pinot Noir: Adam Lee’s Clarice Project
• Wine scores rant: Top-notch cava gets 86 points, about the same as a crummy supermarket wine
• Orange Wine is Trending for All the Right Reasons
• Best online wine shops – and how to store your favourite tipple
• British Columbia is auditioning pinot noir as its signature grape

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Combining efforts to boost return on mechanization

EUROPE & THE UK

• EU Lockdown wine consumption increase
• Roman mosaic unearthed under Italian vineyard

DOWN UNDER

• NSW cellar doors open for wine tastings
• OZ: Water used for irrigation fell 26 percent in 2018-19

SOUTH AFRICA

• 18,000 jobs lost in wine industry