JANUARY 5, 2021 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Pandemic drinking did not save the wine industry’s slowing sales, new data shows
• Time Is Running Out For Prop 13 Transfers Of Property That Were Abolished by Prop 19
• California North Coast wine grape contracts get more stringent on smoke damage in 2021
• New Illinois and Chicago Taxes for Direct-to-Consumer Wine Sales
• See how Phase 2 Cellars streamline systems and provide exceptional customer service. (Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• 2020 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced (Sponsored link)

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• AL: Proposal would allow home delivery of beer and wine
• WSTA research finds Champagne and fortified wine sales rally in 2020
• Selling Wine, Beer, And Spirits In America*(Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Cognac and more French wines hit with US tariffs
• What’s new at the 2021 Sommeliers Choice Awards and how that will help wine brands. (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Pandemic Prompts Passaggio Wines Move to Treasure Island, San Francisco
• Path forward: California Wine Country tourism boosters plan industry’s pandemic recovery

2021 PREDICTIONS

• Wine Future 2021, Idaho Wine, The Unified: Wine Economist World Tour
• Raise a Glass: Reasons (and resolutions) to support wine, beer and spirits producers in 2021
• Prediction: Eight ways wine will change in 2021
• Mondavi’s Judd Wallenbrock Predicts a Premium Year in 2021

COVID-19

• Business liability could delay more COVID-19 aid next year
• California, once a COVID-19 success story, buckles under case surge. How did it happen?
• Major U.S. airlines back ‘global’ COVID-19 testing requirements: letter
• California lawmaker aims to extend pandemic eviction ban through 2021
• Bay Briefing: Why Bay Area health experts fear January
• New modelling estimates potential impact of new COVID-19 strain

OBITUARY

• George Whitmore, 1st to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan, dies

DIVERSITY

• Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Are Key to The American Wine Industry’s Future
• LGBTQ+ consumers value brand support beyond Pride Month

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• One year on. Bushfire regeneration in South Australia

DROUGHT/WATER

• Water futures trading index elicits questions, concerns
• Ag conference to feature talks on livestock, water, succession
• CSU partnership to enhance agriculture, water and the environment -Australia
• Calif Reservoir Report

COOL STUFF

• Preserved Roman wine barrels reveal ancient coopers’ art

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• 2020 Alcohol Litigation Cases in Review: No New Supreme Court Case (Yet) and a Narrowing of the Battlefield

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Hayden Homes CEO buys interest in Pepper Bridge, Amavi wineries
• MORE …Fast-growing California wine conglomerate acquires Gen Z-oriented Rabble Wines

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• US Hits France with More Wine Tariffs

DATA & TRENDS

• The Countries That Drank the Most Spanish Wine in 2019
• Exponential increase in wine prices (1980-2000)

WINE TOURISM

• Top destinations for Slovenian wine, 2019

OLIVES

• California Table Olive Harvest Exceeds Expectations Despite Pandemic, Wildfires

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• What 2021 Holds for Craft Hard Seltzer
• Asia continues to dominate global beer consumption
• Cornell’s new barley variety is key to the success of the 2012 Farm Brewing Law
• Barrel aging turns ordinary brews into something extraordinary