SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Wineries must prep now to sustain DTC beyond COVID pandemic
• What Happens When Sommeliers, Critics, and Makers Lose Their Sense of Smell and Taste as a Result of COVID-19?
• DtC Shippers to Get Sales Tax Support Under Latest SST Contract
• NJ: Allied Beverage. Fedway & 20 of their biggest retailers to pay $10.3 mil for discriminatory trade practices
• California Reopening Roadmap is Now a Blueprint for a Safer Economy
• COVID leisure activity comfort-level gap narrows for Millennials & Boomers
• Auction of Washington Wines Goes Virtual, Raises $1.8 Million
• Power shut-offs are in your future. Keep crush moving. Click to reserve your generator NOW! (Sponsored)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• To Kalon Trial lawsuit gets underway
• 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

• Walbridge fire containment grows to 64% overnight
• Cal Fire reports no overnight growth in Hennessey Fire
• California winemakers are racing to salvage their grape harvests before wildfires destroy them
• Viticulturists keep fingers crossed that smoke won’t taint wine
• They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Spanish bulk wine sees shipments nosedive during April and May due to Covid-19 impact
• How To Really Send Your Samples To Prospective Distributors and Importers (Sponsored)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa County grants Saintsbury winery a large visitor increase
• Kendall-Jackson, in Partnership with United Way, launches the Grocery Worker’s Relief Fund
• Sen. Dodd: UC Davis Wine Sales Bill Approved By Legislature
• Results Are Out For The First Edition Of Paris Wine Cup (Sponsored)

COVID-19

• California launches cautious reopening plan that will allow limited-capacity dining in for certain counties
• Napa, Lake get OK for greater reopening from coronavirus rules than other Wine Country counties
• COVID-19 hit the hotel industry hard. Here’s how hotels are pivoting in the new reality

DIVERSITY

• Women’s Success In The Business Of Wine And Spirits: A Case Study In Leadership
• How these entrepreneurs are changing the face of the wine industry
• Black Drinks Innovators
• Illuminating Oregon’s talented Black community
• Website launched to highlight BAME wine professionals
• The Beer Industry Looks for Ways to Help Black Brewers

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

AMAZON

• Walmart+ will finally launch in September. Can it compete with Amazon Prime?
• Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery fleet gains FAA approval for trial commercial flights

DROUGHT/WATER

• Rebalancing Agricultural and Natural Land

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• FL: Briefing complete in distiller’s state food safety vs. federal regulatory allowance preemption suit over grains of paradise used in Bacardi’s Bombay Sapphire gin

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Understanding Wine Purchase Influences During a Pandemic
• How technology gives Wanderlust Wine an edge over its competitors
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Echolands Winery buys Mill Creek Vineyard in Walla Walla AVA

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• China ramps up coercive diplomacy as Australian winemakers hit twice
• China sours on Australia’s wine

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Introducing the LWIN database – the world’s largest open-source database of wine information
• Sotheby’s to auction Ornellaia’s latest ‘Vendemmia’ bottles

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Wines Of Provence Shows Support For U.S. Restaurants And Retailers

MARKETING & SALES

• “Grape Aid” looks to raise $1 million to help NM wine industry

MEDIA MATTERS

• Book Review: The Wines of South Africa
• Book recounts story of deal to buy Stalin’s multi-million dollar wine cellar

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The History of Wine’s Changing Flavors
• Are Rhône Varieties Washington State’s White Knight?

WINE PEOPLE

• As The Going Gets Tough In The Wine World, Delia Viader Continues To Move Mountains

WINE TOURISM

• OR: Stoller finishes one-of-a-kind hi-tech experience center

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• New Supermarkets, Now? Proceed With Caution.
• COVID-19 Cancels 2020, 2021 James Beard Awards, As Foundation Rethinks Bias, Diversity

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• OR: Wine industry grows steadily in the high desert
• NC Gov Cooper extends early cutoff for restaurant alcohol sales

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Farming winegrapes for production

EUROPE & THE UK

• Primum Familiae Vini appoints Matthieu Perrin as new president
• The Visionary For Brunello’s Top ‘Grand Cru’ Wine In Tuscany
• UK: Wine writer founds Cambridge’s first urban winery

DOWN UNDER

• New Zealand on coronavirus wine strategy: ‘The outlook may be challenging – but as an industry, we will get through it’

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Mallya’s appeal rejected by India’s Supreme Court

LATIN AMERICA

• Montes using shells to warm his vines in Chile’s chilly south

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Canned cocktail sales to surpass $146bn by 2030