JUNE 9, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Long-simmering wine industry grudge match heads for federal court hearing
• Bill Foley Expands Empire with Sonoma Jewel Ferrari-Carano
• Re-opening Winery Tasting Rooms — What would bring me back?
• Being Black in the White World of Wine
• As states start to reopen, here’s where people are going (and not)
• Bordeaux 2019: the ‘miracle’ vintage meets the market from hell
• Bon Appetit Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport Resigns After Backlash Over Treatment of People of Color
• Gaining control of complex custom crush operations (Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Champagne Really Feeling the Pandemic Pain
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Falkner Winery catches fire in Temecula Wine Country
• Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance announces partnership with Community Benchmark
• Ag Health Benefits Alliance Announces First Scholarship Awardees (PDF)
• North Bay professionals news: Castle Rock Winery, Leveque Wine Consulting, Sonoma Clean Power and more

DRINKS & SOCIAL JUSTICE

• Real Systemic Change Requires That We Have A Seat At The Table
• A Global Guide to Black-Owned Wine Labels
• 23 Black-Owned Wineries Worth Supporting Right Now

COVID-19 OPENING UP

• California Gives Napa Wineries a Green Light to Reopen
• Santa Barbara County Issues Dozens of Emergency Food Permits for Wineries, Breweries to Open

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Calif: Licensees Beware – the Harsh New ABC Enforcement Rules Are Effective Right Now

WILDFIRES

• California Was Set To Spend Over $1 Billion to Prevent Wildfires. Then Came COVID-19

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Feds say no to help for Northern California cannabis firms hurt by coronavirus restrictions
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels (Sponsored)

DROUGHT/WATER

• ‘Megadrought’ and ‘Aridification’ — Understanding the New Language of a Warming World

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Two Conferences, Two Biodynamics

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Precept buys sparkling wine cocktail maker Pampelonne
• Quini Closes Private Equity Funding Round

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• Vinexpo webinar to discuss challenges facing new brands

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Wine Investing? There’s An App For That

BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR 2019

• Bordeaux 2019 en primeur: Mouton Rothschild drops price
• Mouton Rothschild drops its 2019 price by 30%
• Clerc Milon 2019 released
• Armailhac 2019 released
• Haut Bages Liberal 2019 released

MARKETING & SALES

• Down the Rabbit Hole: Wine Takes the Virtual Plunge
• Email Is Not Dead…But You Can Be Deadly With It!
• Syndicated Brand Health Tracking Study
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Chengdu Wine Fair partners with Alibaba to launch online exhibition

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• TikTok Is [Apparently] the Future (podcast)

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Rémy Cointreau launches free online training for hospitality workers

MEDIA MATTERS

• SevenFifty to Expand Tech and Data Expertise with Acquisition of Bridge

WINE PEOPLE

• Dr Greg Dunn, head of the wine division, Plumpton College
• Passionate About Prosecco: Talking With Enore Ceola
• Vintner On the Move: A Live Chat with Joe Wagner
• Sommelier Jenna Isaacs ‘Can’t Stop Popping Bottles’ of Champagne in Quarantine

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Uber Eats Start Free Delivery From Black-Owned Restaurants

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY: Liquor Authority extends renewal payments for businesses impacted by COVID-19

ACADEMIA

• UC San Diego Digitizes Materials in its American Institute of Wine and Food Culinary Collection

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• How hands-off can viticulture be?
• Using competition to best advantage in vineyard management

EUROPE & THE UK

• Mallya extradition unlikely due to ‘legal issue’
• Justin Keay on how Franciacorta is facing the future after Covid impact
• Touraine producer becomes general secretary of AREV: an interview (part two)
• French brokers are more worried about the amount of wine to distill than the price
• Some thoughts on the absurd Swedish alcohol policy
• UK: “Impressive” online drinks uplift here to stay
• UK: Johnston Logistics reports eight-fold hike in alcohol throughput

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Leading wineries set up e-commerce channels in China
• U.S. wine importers get tariff relief in China
• The future is orange: Campari tests selling Aperol in China

SOUTH AFRICA

• No plans to reinstate alcohol ban in South Africa at this time

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• These 10 Black-Owned Breweries Make Great Beer
• Craft distiller wins dismissal of misleading label suit over where the whiskey was distilled and the source of the water used in proofing