AUGUST 27, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Crop Insurance Fears for Smoke-hit Vineyards
• US ecommerce sales booming despite COVID retail struggles
• Owner of La Borgata winery in Vacaville focuses on rebuilding after wildfire
• Angelina Mondavi buys Sojourn Cellars (possible paywall)
• Break In Harvest Lessens Fire’s Consequences For Grape Crop
• Rising From the Ashes: Q4 Marketing Recommendations
• Artisan Public Relations: Paul Wagner’s latest PR opus magnum published
• Power shut-offs are in your future. Keep crush moving. Click to reserve your generator NOW! (Sponsored)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Smoke Taint Looms Large for NorCal Wine
• Harvard-controlled LLC in $120+ million deal with anonymous LLC connected with Canadian pension fund.
• Ruby Grapes sues Intercoastal Wine charging criminal pandemic profiteering.
• Streamlining a Large Custom Crush Operation for Clients and Cellar Staff (Sponsored)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Weather, reinforcements helping in Northern California wildfire fight
• In Sonoma, the Wine Industry Reckons with Wildfires and the Pandemic
• Evacuations lifted near California wildfires; destruction ‘almost unbelievable’
• California’s Wildfires Came at the Worst Time for Wine Industry
• CA: Wildfire and Wine – Don’t Worry, Grapes are Fine (video)
• Victims of California’s Fires Need Your Help. Here’s How.
• California Wildfires Increases Misery for Growers
• USDA helps farmers as Western wildfires rage

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Calif must pull more vineyard acres to avoid oversupply — Allied Grape Growers (pdf)
• Winegrape harvest under way in Napa, Sonoma
• How To Really Send Your Samples To Prospective Distributors and Importers (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Calif: Market realities still require vine removals, expert says
• Results Are Out For The First Edition Of Paris Wine Cup (Sponsored)

DIVERSITY

• An All-Around Wine Connoisseur

HEALTH

• Digital International Liver Congress: Alcohol cravings could be reduced by changing gut microbiota, new study reveals
• Do You Really Have to Follow Those New Alcohol Guidelines?

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• High cannabis numbers show added market potential
• How To Build Your Online Presence To Drive Your Delivery & Curbside Sales? (Sponsored)

AMAZON

• Amazon opens its first Amazon Fresh physical grocery store, in LA

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Nearly 1 million more cases of wine shipped direct to buyers in first half of 2020
• How to build a wine e-commerce team, boost sales
• 5 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, here’s how people’s spending habits have changed
• How Working from Home is Shaping Consumers’ Power of Choice (video)
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

REAL ESTATE

• $3.4M Livermore Wine Country Home Is Epitome Of Luxury Living

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine Estates A Buy On Selloff After China Spat
• 2020 is the “toughest Christmas to predict”, Majestic boss warns

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• China’s wine dumping allegations leave the industry gobsmacked, both in Australia and China
• The trade spat continues, but China has developed a real taste for Australian wines
• Australian wine producers voice concerns over tense trade relations

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Wines of the Bordeaux 500: detailed performance
• First en-primeur report in Chinese released by Lin Liu MW

MARKETING & SALES

• These wines are far too sexual

MEDIA MATTERS

• Vodcasting for Success (video)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• A Wine Geek’s Guide to Pinot Noir Clones Around the World
• Brix: the sweet spot for grape harvest
• What is Fine Wine?
• The dirty truth about ‘clean wine’

WINE PEOPLE

• Pascaline Lepeltier on Wine, Philosophy And The 1937 d’Yquem That Changed Everything
• Meet Château Maris’s Bertie Eden: the Languedoc’s godfather of organics

WINE PLACES

• Barossa Valley (video)

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Cracker Barrel is getting boozy and analysts say millennials will come for the mimosas
• Nomadic New Role For Chefs – Maybe Even At The Beard House

ACADEMIA

• Brock University (Ontario): CCOVI uncorks novel partnership to aid local pandemic efforts

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: How merchants can get special funds to stock German wines

DOWN UNDER

• Australian wine brand health study
• OZ: Mining company Terramin loses bid to stop ‘huge’ Bird in Hand Adelaide Hills winery expansion

SOUTH AFRICA

• South African wine sector loses R14bn over Covid-related lockdowns

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Lebanese wine is superb. After the Beirut explosion, we should all be buying it

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• DtC Shipping for Beer & Spirits: How to Develop and Grow a New Market