JULY 8, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Pandemic Will Create Big Revenue Losses For U.S. Wine Industry
• ETS & Enartis/Vinquiry Laboratories, to Merge
• Black Wine Professionals Demand More Inclusion In Predominantly White Industry
• 2020 Tasting Room Study: Results Show Opportunities for Growth
• Planting trees could help winegrowers adapt to global warming, French researchers say
• Your marketing has to rise above the noise of the Average American’s 31-hour day
• Streamlining a Large Custom Crush Operation for Clients and Cellar Staff (Sponsored)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Salads Not A Meal In Calif? ABC Says, “Nope!”
• Feds release names of PPP recipients who got $150K+

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Wine exporters should feel ‘cautiously optimistic’ about China
• Canadian Wine Imports Accelerate During the Pandemic
• China’s wine imports decline by over 30%
• 50 Tactics Wineries, Breweries, & Distilleries can use to boost their pick up & delivery sales (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Glenn McGourty Retires, Leaves a Legacy in Lake County Viticulture
• Heads Up: The Spotted Lanternfly Is Coming to California
• Napa Wine Company names Russell Joy general manager
• Michael V. Drake Named New UC President
• Kistler’s Kind Wine Gesture Pays Off
• Old Vines and New Blood on California’s Central Coast (podcast)

COVID & HOSPITALITY

• Chez Panisse sues insurance provider over coronavirus coverage(POSSIBLE PAYWALL)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Weather and Climate Summary and Forecast July 2020 Report
• Warming trend in California, but most intense heat remains across the interior Southwest. And what about the autumn to come?
• The burning question: How do wildfires impact watersheds?

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• How To Build Your Online Presence To Drive Your Delivery & Curbside Sales? (Sponsored)

AMAZON

• Walmart’s Amazon Prime competitor will launch in July

DROUGHT/WATER

• Engineers use electricity to clean up toxic water

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Côtes de Grantham might cost the earth
• Why vines in the Pyrenees may have the answer to combatting climate change

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• 19%: Canada’s Failing Grade on DTC
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

REAL ESTATE

• Ocatagon Vineyards estate on the market in Glen Ellen for $5,900,000

AGRIFOODTECH

• How Gene Editing is Changing the Future of Wine—and Making it Less Likely to Give You a Hangover

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Wine professionals: please follow the U.S. Wine Trade Alliance as we gear up to fight new tariffs!

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• LAFFORT webinar “Protecting Quality in a Challenging Harvest” has been changed from July 8th to July 22nd

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Future Returns: A Relative Value Approach to Fine Wine
• Bordeaux En Primeur 2019: Saturnalia predictions vs. critic scores

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Where wine brands have power

MARKETING & SALES

• How To Successfully Take Your Winery’s Sales Online
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Wine’s inside information
• The wine innovation that deserves more attention
• Should ingredients be included on wine labels?

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• The Post-COVID Workplace: Will Employees Be Safe?

MEDIA MATTERS

• A book review of “The Goode Guide to Wine”

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Food Rules and Authenticity

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Willamette Valley Vineyards is building a sparkling wine facility

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• High-throughput sequencing tracks historical spread of grapevine viruses
• Influence of the electrochemical potential in oenology (videos)
• Chemical characteristics of wine made by disease tolerant varieties
• Developing New Winegrape Varieties (podcast)

EUROPE & THE UK

• EU acts to support wine sector as COVID-19 saps demand
• So what does the ‘new normal’ look like in Italy, 7 weeks on?
• How the UK on-trade is re-opening
• Netherlands returns to the new normal
• By taking control of Vinadeis, InVivo breaks through €500-million-barrrier in revenue
• Sibling rivalry in Champagne
• UK: Wine merchant goes fully electric

DOWN UNDER

• Marlborough wine industry gets funding to train 200 Kiwi job-seekers
• OZ: Shaw + Smith and Geoff Hardy Pertaringa announce changes

SOUTH AFRICA

• Prospects for South African wine in the UK market as Coronavirus drags on

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• A guide to labeling your non-alcoholic beer. Rather, to labeling non-alcoholic malt beverages, brews, near beer, cereal beverages or whatever you choose to call it… Please just don’t call it “beer, ale, porter, lager, or stout.”