JANUARY 22, 2021 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Imagining an End to Wine Tariffs
• Wine Shipping State of the Union, 2021 Edition
• Wine Spectator Scholarship Foundation Donates $100,000 to Support Diversity in Wine Education
• How Babe Wine And ‘The Fat Jewish’ Built A Canned Wine Empire From Monster Trucks And Mega-Models (possible paywall)
• Marketing To a Polarized Public: Caution! Minefields Ahead!
• Ganau launches EPIQ – Corks with threshold of ≤0.5 ng/L TCA — below level of human perception. Process backed by peer-reviewed science.(Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• North Coast wine business will feel effect of the pandemic for some time, expert says
• How A Netflix-Style Recommender Is Vital to Reversing Wine’s Market Marginalization
• Crimson Wine to restate 3+ years of financial results after independent review of “unreliable” accounting errors
• 2020 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced (Sponsored link)

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• American Airlines has so much extra wine that it is starting a delivery service
• Selling Wine, Beer, And Spirits In America*(Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Champagne slowed down
• What’s new at the 2021 Sommeliers Choice Awards and how that will help wine brands. (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Premiere Napa Valley wine futures auction rescheduled for June
• Appellation St. Helena Announces New Board
• Boich Family Cellar: The 20-year labor of love that began with a boozy lunch in Napa Valley
• See how Phase 2 Cellars streamline systems and provide exceptional customer service. (Sponsored link)

COVID-19

• Biden issues coronavirus response plan including orders for national guidance on worker safety and restaurant operating regulations
• Washington farmworkers move up COVID waiting list (possible paywall)

DIVERSITY

• The economic impact of closing the racial wealth gap

HEALTH

• I’m a Neuroscientist, and This Is Exactly How Alcohol Ruins Your Sleep

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Navigating the World of Crop Insurance
• Why winter, yes winter, fires are burning in California

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Sonoma City Council opens door to second walk-in dispensary

RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• Results from the 2019 Volumetric Annual Report of Wastewater and Recycled Water in California

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Illinois passes liquor control act amendments to clarify and expand in-state delivery and shipping rights for retail liquor licensees (stores, bars, etc.)

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• How are Wineries Doing? Are They Interested in Selling?
• Sta. Rita Hills: Fe Ciega Vineyard is now owned by Adam & Helen Tolmach

AGRIFOODTECH

• “Tomorrow’s robots will not be marketed by today’s start-ups” claims Pellenc

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• We’re About to Get an Influx of Great Whisky and Wine, Thanks to Revised Regulations

BREXIT

• How Brexit affects European businesses

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – record starts among smaller regions
• Now available to all: Liv-ex’s Extended Report, “The Rhone: Solid as a Rock”
• Bordeaux Index reports sales of US$125m in 2020
• This Rare Cognac From 1777 Will Soon Go Up For Auction

MARKETING & SALES

• The 4Ps of marketing that unlock Millennials and Gen Z

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Why alternative packaging for wine has struggled
• A New Cure for Cork Taint
• The quest to defeat cork taint

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Wines Of Tenuta Di Arceno Are Changing Outmoded Views Of Tuscany’s Chianti (possible paywall)
• Ever-evolving trends in cuisines and wines

WINE PEOPLE

• Going Hardcore With Jeff Cole of Sullivan Rutherford Estate
• Pancho Campo: why I’ve relaunched Wine Future for 2021 challenges
• People to Know: Lee Hudson (video)

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• How virtual wine dinners saved our restaurant in Houston

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• ‘We’re Very Proud of What We Do’: Florida’s Growing Wine Scene
• VA: Wine Stork flies! Richmond has a new delivery service for adults over 21

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• New Grape Disease Sensing Technology with Hyperspectral Imaging (podcast)

EUROPE & THE UK

• The Grange appoints first in-house winemaker
• The Drinks Trust appoints new chair of trustees

DOWN UNDER

• Shiraz Uncorked: The Australian way

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa’s wine industry suffers badly

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The spellbinding history of cheese and witchcraft

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Can emerging categories crack the luxury market?
• ‘Drinks with 1.2% ABV or under clearly do not satisfy the definition for gin’: Gin Guild