JUNE 3, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• What’s Next in Wine’s New Normal?
• Off-premise wine growth must maintain 22% growth rates to offset the on-premise losses: Nielsen
• Final rules for Calif Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) released by state Attorney General
• Brands Are Speaking Out on Black Lives Matter. How Are Consumers Going to Respond?
• Will the world have too much wine in 2020?
• Gaining control of complex custom crush operations (Sponsored)

OBITUARIES

• Hilary Gibbs passes away

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Wine consumer and product trends: What may change due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Part 2
• As Wine Sales Skyrocket, Retailers Shift What and How they Stock
• Southern hemisphere winemakers share lessons from crisis harvesting
• A tale of two virus experiences
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa County says wineries can’t roll in food options to be able to reopen earlier, officials say
• Miravis Prime fungicide now labeled for use in California

COVID-19 OPENING UP

• Robots dish out the drinks at reopened Dutch restaurant

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• 2019 Bottled wine exports up in volume & value; Bulk volume up, value down: OIV
• Some accuracy and lots of exaggeration in the reporting of wine industry data

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

DROUGHT/WATER

• USDA Approves $2.5 Million for California Water Investments
• Looking at climate change impacts on the Delta

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine Estates seeks to deliver shareholder value

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Billionaire Bill Foley backs NZ tourism bounce back with multi-million-dollar winery investment
• UK: ‘Substantial part’ of Oddbins sold

AGRIFOODTECH

• The Race To Bring Alcohol To Space

DISTRIBUTORS

• Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Introduces COVID-19 Recovery Resources for On-Premise Customers

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• Vinexpo NY to host webinar on ‘new normal’ for alcohol sales

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Sotheby’s Wine unveils full line-up for HK sale

BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR 2019

• Liv-ex: Why now is not the time to release Bordeaux 2019 En Primeur
• Pontet-Canet sells 100 % of its En Primeur wines in just 3 hours
• Château Cos d’Estournel 2019 released en primeur
• Cos d’Estournel 2019 released
• Malescot St Exupery 2019 released
• Guiraud 2019 released

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Holistic Tasting and the Fear of Subjectivity

MARKETING & SALES

• How much real value is there in virtual Champagne tasting?
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• WBWE Asia launches virtual wine exhibition

MATTERS OF TASTE

• What Heidegger teaches us about drinking and thinking
• CMS Intro: Germany (video)

WINE PEOPLE

• Black Women Entrepreneurs are Building their Own Spaces in Wine
• Maureen O’Callaghan, a young grower from Ephrata, Washington

EUROPE & THE UK

• Challenges for winemakers as Italy exits lockdown
• Updates from Italy: How is wine fairing as lockdown eases?
• UK: “Hammer blow” to on-trade from Covid-19, report predicts
• UK wineries expect revenue to fall by average of 52%
• France increases support for Covid-hit wine sector

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Tourism alone won’t solve $160 million economic loss threatening future of Hunter Valley

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Fighting fakes: A guide to buying wine in China
• Chinese consumers change their wine habits

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• 10 Black-Owned Distilleries Making Some of America’s Finest Bottles