JUNE 23, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Americans Are Actually Drinking LESS During the Pandemic
• Royal Wine Flouts Koch Court Order
• MW resigns from Court of Master Sommeliers in blistering letter over BLM
• Undocumented Farmworkers Are Refusing COVID Tests for Fear of Losing Their Jobs
• Wine America’s Third Covid-19 Economic Impact Survey
• Red wine ranks #1 in AlcBevs ordered with takeout-delivery. White wine: #4.
• How NOT to Respond to a Guest’s Concerns About COVID
• Streamlining a Large Custom Crush Operation for Clients and Cellar Staff (Sponsored)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Uncertain Futures for Smaller Wineries Post-Covid

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• AOC Bordeaux aims to scale back production by 20% in 2020
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• California Attorney General Issuing Letters to Agricultural Operations Requesting COVID-19 Documentation and Related Policies
• Ten UC Cooperative Extension academics retire July 1
• Ed Morris Promoted to Winemaker, California Wines By Ron Rubin Winery and River Road Subsidiary
• Shannon Ridge Family of Wines and Shannon Ranches hires Tom Azevedo as COO/CFO
• How Ojai Vineyard recreates the Rhône & Burgundy in Santa Barbara

DIVERSITY

• ‘Our Mission is Education and Awareness’: Philip Long on the Association of African American Vintners
• One Black Female Sommelier’s Take On The Wine Biz In Denver

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• OZ: $86 million of new grants for bushfire-hit industries

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

DROUGHT/WATER

• California still benefits from wet 2018-19

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Major family winery owners launch €100k sustainability prize

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Updated SBA PPP loan forgiveness applications (and new EZ Form) now available

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• ‘There’s a more bullish view in 2020’: Report reveals huge uplift in the drinks industry’s use of digital
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo delays 2020 results due to home working

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Rémy Cointreau In Negotiations To Acquire Majority Stakes In Maison de Champagne J. de Telmont
• NY: In the Finger Lakes, one winery expands by buying another
• UK: Oastbrook Estates in Sussex secures stock-based funding on maturing wine

BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR 2019

• Beausejour Duffau-Lagarrosse 2019 released
• Vieux Chateau Certan 2019 released
• Fleur Petrus 2019 released
• Bordeaux 2019 en primeur: Carmes Haut-Brion, La Fleur-Pétrus released

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• The (Brief) New Era of Unbelievable Wine Deals

MARKETING & SALES

• How Big Wine Producers Dominate the Marketplace
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• How Crowler Cans are Saving Breweries

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• The Need for Career Mobility in Wine and Hospitality
• How Anyone Can Be a Vineyard Manager
• How Sommeliers Can Pivot to Other Wine Jobs
• President Trump signs executive order temporarily suspending work visas for H-1B holders

MEDIA MATTERS

• New Book Release: Stars in a Glass, A production manual for making high-quality méthode champenoise sparkling wine

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Rediscovering Ruchè, One of Italy’s “Invisible” Wines
• Cabernet Sauvignon: The World’s Most Planted Grape Variety
• The Underwater Wine Cellars Of Croatia Beneath The Adriatic Sea

WINE PEOPLE

• Cristie Norman, Sommelier And Entrepreneur
• A Live Chat with Château Lynch Bages’ Jean-Charles Cazes
• Innovation in Wine with Greg Lambrecht, Founder of Coravin (video)
• Elaine Chukan Brown & Tegan Passalacqua tell the Lodi story (video)

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Virus is taking big toll on farm county in Washington state

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• New, reliable source for cellulose in wet and dry filtration applications announced
• Acacia gum stabilizes color in wine
• Why Calcareous Soils Matter for Vineyards and Wine Grapes
• Selection of yeast and fermentation conditions for the production of Sauvignon Blanc (videos)

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: BWS sales through grocers continue to boom

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Growers and winemakers working together to improve commercial arrangements
• OZ: Balnaves winemaker Pete Bissell retires

SOUTH AFRICA

• ‘Unlikely that wine industry will make up the nearly R3bn it lost’ due to SA lockdown

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Tariffs cause 33% fall in American whiskey exports