JUNE 10, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• How California Wine Country vintners, restaurants are using data to navigate the coronavirus business world
• Diners getting braver, but the share of U.S. adults who’re comfortable going out to eat varies widely
• Post-Pandemic Restaurants Will Have To Change Their Ways
• Napa Valley’s wine industry cautiously embarks upon reopening process
• DRC Withdrawn from Auction After counterfeit suspicions
• Gaining control of complex custom crush operations (Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Temperatures during flowering in 2019 determine 2020 crop yields
• OZ: Granite Belt winemakers face ‘slim pickings’ after years of drought
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Somerston Estate collaborates with Steve Leveque as Consulting Winemaker
• Wineries Aren’t Bars
• Central Coast: $200,000 to Aid Farmworker Health During Pandemic

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Long-simmering wine industry grudge match heads for federal court hearing

DRINKS & SOCIAL JUSTICE

• Oregon wine commits to anti-racism and equity
• How the Black Is Beautiful Initiative Is Fermenting Social Change Through Beer

COVID-19 OPENING UP

• UK: Why younger drinkers key to on-trade re-opening
• How the pandemic could fundamentally alter store layouts

HEALTH

• Pubs Re-Opening Has Many Of Us Fizzing With Excitement, But What Of Our Lockdown Livers?

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

AMAZON

• Amazon Australia launches Beer, Wine and Spirits store

DROUGHT/WATER

• Delta Stewardship Council: Lower Yolo Ranch Restoration Project Appeal

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Researchers examine climate change perception among specialty-crop producers

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Brown-Forman FY sales hit by Covid-19 crisis

BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR 2019

• Wine Owners: Why Bordeaux 2019 is all about the price
• Pavie Decesse 2019 released
• Malartic Lagraviere 2019 released
• Monbousquet 2019 released
• Ormes Pez 2019 released
• Pavie 2019 released
• Suduiraut 2019 released
• Lynch Bages 2019 released
• Haut Batailley 2019 released
• Grand Puy Ducasse 2019 released
• Lynch-Bages follows 2019 release price drop trend

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Can surliness enhance the wine tasting experience?

MARKETING & SALES

• Here’s how to grow your brand in a crisis
• What You Need to Know About the Secret Disney Family of Wines
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wines of Beauty and Obligation

WINE PEOPLE

• Seasoned California Winemaker David Ramey on Using Past Crises to Inform Current Ones (podcast)
• Q&A: Maxence Dulou, Ao Yun

WINE PLACES

• Colares finds a new fan base

WINE HISTORY

• Does alcohol have an undisclosed African heritage?

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: New converts to online shopping will become permanent, as alcoholic drinks drive growth in channel
• Spike in online searches for English wine
• UK: Johnston Logistics reports eight-fold hike in alcohol throughput
• Grupo Rioja calls for more support as ‘Basque Wine’ shored up
• Crisis, what crisis?
• Minimum pricing sees Scots alcohol consumption fall – but sales of fortified wines increase

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Booze you lose? Industry slams beer ad playing on probiotics and good for gut claims
• OZ: COVID-19 impacting wage increases in wine industry

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Japan’s cautious calm

SOUTH AFRICA

• Winter fermented Sauvignon Blanc – Innovation giving South African wineries an edge

AROUND THE GLOBE

• IWSC Market Insight: the Russian wine market