JANUARY 8, 2021 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• US backs down from tariffs over French tariffs
• Wine the Target for Investors – and Thieves
• U.S. loses 140,000 jobs in December. First decline in eight months stems from record coronavirus surge
• Stoller Family Estate Brings the Winery Experience to a New Level
• Wine in an Age of Mobs and Riots
• French wine thieves resort to pelting gendarmes with Burgundy in cork-popping car chase
• See how Phase 2 Cellars streamline systems and provide exceptional customer service. (Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• 2019: First year in US history that young women out drank young men
• Crimson Wine to restate 3+ years of financial results after independent review of “unreliable” accounting errors
• Millennials wary but continue to outpace Boomers in COVID-risky leisure activities
• 2020 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced (Sponsored link)

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Just in Time Just Isnt Enough: COVID-19 Crisis Strains Supply Chain
• What’s new at the 2021 Sommeliers Choice Awards and how that will help wine brands. (Sponsored link)

COVID-19

• Post-infection coronavirus immunity usually robust after 8 months, study shows

DIVERSITY

• Once-Elusive Corporate Racial Data Are Finally Trickling Out

HEALTH

• Americans’ Average Weight Holds Steady in 2020

DROUGHT/WATER

• USA Drought Monitor West Coast and SW
• California Mt. Snowpack is 52% of Average
• Power, Water and Climate

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• China’s Trade Attack On Australia Is Producing Perverse Results
• Buzz Building for Solutions To Honey Bee Colony Collapse

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Wine, spirits can now be sold in new sizes in US

REAL ESTATE

• $23 Million asked for 1,100-Acre Lake County Ranch with Vineyard and Winery

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Corona plans second hard seltzer launch this year
• Constellation Brands, Inc. (STZ) CEO William Newlands on Q3 2021 Results – Earnings Call Transcript

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Private clients invited to bid at Hospices de Nuits sale

MARKETING & SALES

• How To Start Your Own Wine Shop

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Welcome to the Era of Single-serving Wine
• Ball unveils plans for new beverage can end production site

MATTERS OF TASTE

• 2021 $10 Wine Hall of Fame
• Tasting Challenge: California Chardonnay
• Discerning wines of the immediate future through what we know about the past and what’s going in Lodi

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• 2021 BC Liquor Hospitality Industry Health Order Update

EUROPE & THE UK

• France’s hopes lift as US freezes tariffs over tech tax

SOUTH AFRICA

• AB InBev’s South African Breweries takes alcohol ban to court