JULY 10, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• California Wine Sales Reach $43.6 Billion in U.S. Market in 2019
• The California Hospitality Reopening Roadmap to Success
• Recommendations sell! Wine must find an *accurate* path to the types people like most.
• Dear Supreme Court: Please fix three-tier and allow direct shipping
• Clusters of COVID-19 cases arise among North Bay farmworkers, who remain vulnerable
• U.S. to announce, but defer, retaliation over French digital tax: USTR
• Streamlining a Large Custom Crush Operation for Clients and Cellar Staff (Sponsored)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Ohio smacks Wine.com, other DTC shippers with federal prohibition act injunction
• ETS & Enartis/Vinquiry Laboratories, to Merge
• Feds release names of PPP recipients who got $150K+

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Finding new pathways to US consumers for Australian wine
• How Dom Pérignon made a vintage in 2010 when many didn’t
• 50 Tactics Wineries, Breweries, & Distilleries can use to boost their pick up & delivery sales (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma County joining California coronavirus watchlist on Friday
• Napa Shuts its Doors Again
• Jessie Johnson Appointed DTC Director for Emeritus Vineyards

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Fish Friendly Farming certifies 90% of Napa’s vineyards
• Cliff Ohmart shares his firsthand detailed history of Lodi’s groundbreaking sustainable winegrowing program
• GB sustainability initiative given the “green” light
• Agriculture – a climate villain? Maybe not!

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• Import-export webinar: A Taste of New York

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Now available to all: Bordeaux 2019 Opening Report, “The Value of Time”
• Secondary market performers: Bordeaux 2019
• Symbol and wine fraud prevention by blockchain

MARKETING & SALES

• How Large Alcohol Brands Can Shift to a Small-Batch Strategy
• Wineries are creating new channels to drive direct to consumer channels*(Sponsored)

CUSTOMER RELATIONS

• Katie Canfield on PR highs & lows & taking events online during Covid-19

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWein exhibition centre draws up health and safety protocol
• 3 Sessions, Many Takeaways: Wine Summit Piccolo Event Recap

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Pinot Noir’s Past, Present and Uncertain Future in Burgundy

WINE PLACES

• The Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from this AVA may even capture the hearts of Burgundophiles

WINE EDUCATION

• WSET Exam-Type Question: Dealing with Hail
• What’s wrong with “wine education”

WINE TOURISM

• ecotech design completes shipping container hotel at california winery

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Improve your soil and the rest will follow
• Cold stability on the research agenda at the AWRI
• OZ: App to help assess and manage nutrient disorders
• Taking the guess work out of clonal selection
• Grape mildew has a new enemy in the Finger Lakes: a robot named Thorvald

EUROPE & THE UK

• Bordeaux plans a turnaround
• UK: Economics of on-trade supply have “hit a brick wall”
• Burgundy is “the French wine region apparently suffering the least”
• UK Covid-19 Hub: MPs to hold Brexit wine inquiry; 85% want live trade tastings
• EU wine producers can now benefit from a temporary relaxation in competition rules

DOWN UNDER

• Australian drinkers spend up big buying fine wine in isolation

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Burgundy Wine Crossword

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Mathematically Modeling the Mezcal-Making Process…For Science, We Promise
• Monster Beverage Prepares to Jump Onto the Hard Seltzer Bandwagon