DECEMBER 29, 2020 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• FTC approves revised Gallo-Constellation blockbuster wine deal
• Pix.Wine Aims to End The Balkanization of Wine
• What Drink Trends Should Disappear in 2021?
• Space company to bring back scientific payloads of vines & wines from international space station
• The Ten Words That Defined Wine in 2020
• Read how Golden State Cider stays nimble and compliant with vintrace.(Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Heitz Cellar owner purchases Spring Mountain’s Stony Hill Vineyard
• 2020 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced (Sponsored link)

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Gallo’s Golden Quest to Conquer Cognac
• Icewine, World Market, and Manischewitz
• Selling Wine, Beer, And Spirits In America*(Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Provence Rosé Producer Looks Beyond Britain
• Product Shortages Worsen. What’s Causing Them?
• What’s new at the 2021 Sommeliers Choice Awards and how that will help wine brands. (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Laws that take effect in California in 2021
• The good, bad and alarming of CA’s environmental year
• The small steps of Lodi growers led to giant leaps for Lodi wine country
• History of Wine in 10 Glasses By: Paul Wagner
• Wildfires threaten the bread and butter of Napa Valley: tourism and wine production. What now?

COVID-19

• With loss of smell, great wine loses all its joy
• Lockdown stories – view from the vines
• COVID-19 revealed the fragility of supply chains
• Fear and Social Distancing: Global Perceptions of COVID Risk

HEALTH

• A Scary Amount of Nutrition Science Has Deep Ties to The Food Industry, Study Reveals

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Making the Case for CBD in Convenience Stores

DROUGHT/WATER

• Wine Unfazed by Threat of Dry January

MARKETING & SALES

• Rapid Digital Growth and High-End Demand Fuel a 2021 Recovery For Luxury Spirits Brands

MATTERS OF TASTE

• A scientist’s personal wine tasting anecdotes
• 2019 vintage Burgundy report: the best year since 1865?