DECEMBER 11, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• After 2020 What’s Next for Wine?
• ‘We have failed’: A look at how COVID-19 affects California’s 800,000 farmworkers
• Small Wineries Bearing the Brunt of Industry Pivot
• A small tourist town is refusing to comply with California’s shutdown. It may not be the only one.
• Binge drinking during the pandemic — or not
• The data equivalent of junk food: What it is and how to detect it.
• How Wine by Sam’s winemaker got back into the cellar with vintrace.(Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• California Liquor Board Bypasses Due Process
• Winc’s actual customer retention rate — here’s how the math works
• 2020 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced (Sponsored link)

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Is the wine retailer shipping case red hot in Supreme Court circles?
• Selling Wine, Beer, And Spirits In America*(Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Bordeaux is ready to plant its new grape varieties
• Bottega: We need to decrease Prosecco production
• What’s new at the 2021 Sommeliers Choice Awards and how that will help wine brands. (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Frank Family Vineyards promotes two long-time employees to management positions
• Long-time Wine Industry Leader to Leave Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association
• Brand Napa Valley: New beginnings on Pritchard Hill
• By a 3-2 vote, Napa County agrees Bremer Winery barn can stay

COVID-19

• Sonoma County issues stay-home order to slow spread of coronavirus
• What you can and can’t do under Sonoma County’s new COVID-19 stay-home order
• Sonoma wineries must shut down starting Saturday following new stay-at-home order (possible paywall)

DIVERSITY

• One woman’s mission to diversify the wine industry (video)
• The Spirits Business Is Stacked Against Black Owners — But That Can Change
• Responsibility in the Wine Industry

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Talking Biodynamics and Troon Vineyard Wines with Amy Gross on Wine4.me (video)

REAL ESTATE

• Bordeaux property: Four stunning ‘hobby’ vineyard estates for sale

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Brown-Forman: ‘RTD alcohol growth this year has exceeded expectations’

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Buying Australian Wine Is One Way the U.S. Can Fight China on Trade
• AGW: allegations of trade distorting subsidies for Australian grape and wine producers defy logic
• NSW Wine industry rejects claims of no impacts due to the Chinese trade war
• Naked Wines announces rescue fund for independent producers hit by China tariffs

BREXIT

• Brexit stockpiling: ‘I can’t get my wine out of the EU’
• Brexit: Independence Day?
• EU sets out contingency measures in case of Brexit disruption

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Blockchain-powered Bordeaux? IBM announces wine supply chain tracing system

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• ‘It’s not necessarily a guarantee’: should you buy an award-winning wine?
• Jeb Dunnuck appoints Italian critic

MARKETING & SALES

• We All Know to Meet Our Customers Where They Are. Here’s How to Do that Better.

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Modernized Alcoholic Beverage Regulations Spur Label Updates

MEDIA MATTERS

• Q & A with Lucia Albino Gilbert and Jack Gilbert, authors of Women Winemakers: Personal Odysseys
• Lafite releases ‘The Almanac’

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Water in wine and other heresies
• Australia and its history of blends

WINE PEOPLE

• Breaking Bubbles with Maurizio Zanella
• Mr Yquem: How Leonid Shutov got Londoners sipping Sauternes
• Garrett Buckland – Premiere Viticulture (podcast)

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Restaurants on Life Support
• The World’s Most Successful Grocery Stores (Literally) Aren’t What They Used to Be – Nielsen

ACADEMIA

• Ontario: Brock University launches first winemaking course

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Delayed malolactic fermentation: exploring the stylistic and practical impacts

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Grape growers warn the $430 million Swan Valley tourism industry’s at risk of losing its backdrop

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Inside the Japanese wine market