JULY 9, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Ohio smacks Wine.com, other DTC shippers with federal prohibition act injunction
• WSWA likes Ohio action to stop direct shipping
• Treasury Wine faces renewed pressure to ditch US operations
• Post-COVID online grocery services need to sustain these key value drivers
• Will brand owners divert resources from the on-premise?
• Streamlining a Large Custom Crush Operation for Clients and Cellar Staff (Sponsored)

STATES CONTINUE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST DIRECT SHIPPING

• 15 years since Granholm, and how much hasn’t changed in the three-tier system
• Michigan slaps liquor distributor with ‘historic’ $3 million fine

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Pandemic Will Create Big Revenue Losses For U.S. Wine Industry
• ETS & Enartis/Vinquiry Laboratories, to Merge
• Feds release names of PPP recipients who got $150K+

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Canadian Wine Imports Accelerate During the Pandemic
• Rabobank reports that New Zealand wine exports to our largest market are being hit by sharply lower hospitality channel sales, and will take many years to recover
• 50 Tactics Wineries, Breweries, & Distilleries can use to boost their pick up & delivery sales (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Valley Vintners announces $200 million milestone in donations to community
• Calif: Aid available for vineyards with leafroll virus
• California congressional delegation asks USDA to make winegrape growers eligible for direct relief
• WX Brands Adds Scott Nava as Trade Marketing Manager
• Fine Wine Négociant Demeine Estates Launches and Appoints Key Team Members
• Amanda Wittstrom-Higgins named Ancient Peaks Winery’s executive vice president
• Coppola and Henson companies get loans for winery, puppetry

DIVERSITY

• Black owner of French-style rosé label is on a mission to change the pink drink’s perception
  
• ‘Strike for Black Lives’ to highlight racism
• The Wine Industry, Violence, Words and Emails…Oh My

COVID REDUX: RE-OPENING & RE-CLOSING

• Climbing coronavirus cases force Napa County to curb restaurant, bar, tasting room reopenings
• Napa wineries move more tasting outside under new coronavirus rules as cases spike

HEALTH

• Health Talk: Wine Lovers, COVID-19 and Lost Sense of Smell

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• How Wildfires Make Covid More Dangerous

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

DROUGHT/WATER

• Calif: Farmland values hinge on future water availability
• Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Three countries, three lawsuits with Chinese-owned entitites

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Shipt expands alcohol delivery across Texas
• The New E-Commerce Experiences Driving Results
• Expanding the Reach of Wine: Part 2 (podcast)
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Australia’s Treasury Wine expects 18.5%-20% drop in core earnings on virus hit
• Treasury not giving up on US despite profit plunge
• Penfolds maker Treasury Wines among companies exposed to China rift

AGRIFOODTECH

• UC Davis viticulturist Kaan Kurtural’s research station is the vineyard of the future

DISTRIBUTORS

• Favorite Brands Hires Eric Leckey as Director of Spirits and Director of Sales

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• Mid- to late-season insect and disease management in vineyards – webinar review

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Price cuts deliver unexpected bounce for Bordeaux 2019
• Sotheby’s HK spring sale hits high

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Critics’ “swirl, sniff, sip, spit” not sufficient for wine evaluation
• How We Taste Wine Today

MARKETING & SALES

• Nail It and Scale It
• NeuroMarketing – The Undercover Approach to Sales
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Paper wine bottle can cut carbon footprint by 84%, says Frugalpac

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Tastry takes small wineries to the next level, while making the Central Coast the epicenter of wine innovation
• Twitter is working on a subscription platform codenamed Gryphon

MEDIA MATTERS

• Book Review: The Wandering Vine. Wine, the Romans and Me by Nina Caplan
• A Sneak Peek of ‘Vines & Vision,’ Coming This Fall

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Syrah: Rich And Spicy Grape, Getting More Popular By The Day
• Paying Homage to Burgundy’s Baby Jesus
• Wine Legs: What Causes Those Little Streaks of Wine That Form On The Side of The Glass?
• Why is There so Much Celebrity Rosé?

WINE PEOPLE

• Behind the Wines with Elaine Chukan Brown | Rodrigo Soto, Rebekah Wineburg, Pedro Parra (video)
• Terroir Talk: Thibaud Clerget of Domaine Yvon Clerget (video)
• Celia Welch: Getting to know the person behind the wine (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Wine Region Spotlight: Margaret River

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• A promising new treatment against fungal diseases
• Sudden Vine Collapse Becoming Better Understood
• Suggestions amid a sizzling summer
• The Influence of Alcohol Level and Polyphenol Content on Oral Release and Persistence of Esters in Wine

EUROPE & THE UK

• VAT cut for UK hospitality excludes alcohol
• UK: June delivers another bumper month for online BWS sales
• UK: “Kickstart scheme” for young people to lift up hospitality sector
• Vincent Malherbe, vineyard manager for Moët & Chandon: “Each winegrower and Champagne shipper should be able to test new techniques ”

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China’s wine industry is tiny versus baijiu and beer