NOVEMBER 18, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• State and Wholesalers file briefs in U.S. Supreme Court case: Will it move the Court to hear the case?
• Wine DtC Shipments and Off-Premise Retail (October 2020 Special Report)
• Virtual Oregon Wine Auction Raises More than $1M for Vineyard Worker Healthcare
• Retail jobs in leisure & hospitality recovering slightly better than those in food & beverage
• Cases of Wine Piling Up in Australia as China Shuns Imports (possible paywall)
• SipSource Issues Third-Quarter Data, Paints Bleak Picture for On-Premise Retail Outlets in 2021 IN 2021
• “Texas sized” growth and complexity with vintrace.(Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Champagne & wine cocktails setting big COVID consumption gains: Nielsen
• Constellation & Gallo sign FTC agreement to allow $1.03 billion asset deal
• Winc raises $3+ million in latest offering, but fails to disclose federal court case brought against it by state of Ohio
• How Has The Role Of The Sommelier Evolved During COVID? (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Bourgogne UK wine exports up 11.6%
• How 2016 and 2017 Vintage Ports Made History
• 2020 Best wines list for on-premise sector is out (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Valley Vintners ending Auction Napa Valley, will brainstorm what happens next
• BottleRock Napa Valley pushes festival dates to September 2021

COVID-19

• Vaccine will boost consumer confidence – but by how much?
• The Entire Bay Area Could Lose Indoor Dining This Week

DIVERSITY

• Expanding The Narrative Of Hispanic Culture In Wine, Coast To Coast (possible paywall)
• Sommelier advocate says sexual harassment scandal among reasons wine business must move away from such titles

HEALTH

• What It Means to Be Allergic to Alcohol, And What You Can Do About It
• UK: Binge drinking among over-50s rising amid pandemic

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• The chemicals that make skunks and some marijuana smell the same

DROUGHT/WATER

• Governor Newsom, Oregon Governor Brown, Tribal Leaders and Klamath Dam Owner Announce Agreement to Advance Historic Salmon Restoration Plan
• Update on State Water Project restoration efforts in the Delta

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Down to the Roots: The Appeal of Biochar
• Distilled Spirits Council Forms New Environmental Sustainability Working Group
• How Do You Build Bordeaux’s Greenest Cellar? Château Cantenac-Brown Tries a New Old Technique

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Tequila-Based Seltzers and More: New Product Approvals

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Selling Wine, Beer, And Spirits In America*(Sponsored)

AGRIFOODTECH

• New Wine Gadget a Breath of Fresh Air

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• Vinexpo NY unveils two-part webinar
• Wine Institute’s MarCom 2020
• Wine2Wine is not just online, but interactive

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• William Wouters elected new president of the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale (ASI)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Packaging, branding and the evolution of English wine

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Twitter launches 24-hour Fleets to make tweeting less ‘terrifying’

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine Writing In the Age of COVID
• New edition of The Rewards of Patience released

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Myth of “Old World” Wine
• Why “traditional” wine is inherently bullshit
• The Definition of Luxury Is Changing, but Champagne Is Forever
• Minerality? Tirtiary Notes? Decoding the Science of Wine with Nicolas Quille, Master of Wine (podcast)

WINE PEOPLE

• The firefighting winemaker: Jon Berlin
• A Day In The Life Of Kirk Venge, Winemaker Extraordinaire (possible paywall)
• How Radical Risk-Taking Made Olivier Bernstein One Of Burgundy’s Top Producers (possible paywall)

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• The National Restaurant Association to U.S. governors: We have become a ‘convenient scapegoat’ for COVID-19 outbreaks

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Adult Spotted Lanternfly, Eggs Found in Upstate New York
• New Grape Varieties, New Wine Program for Arkansas

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Risk Management for Vineyard Businesses

EUROPE & THE UK

• Indies: UK future of hybrid wine stores ‘healthy’ post-Covid-19
• Justin Howard-Sneyd joins Dartington
• Why Brits love laughing at wine experts

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine sector well placed to prevail in the face of its greatest challenges

OLIVE OIL

• Questions remain over size of Calif.’s fresh olive crop

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• The Three-Tier System Is Crippling The Craft Spirits Industry. This Company Is Trying To Help (possible paywall)