SEPTEMBER 14, 2021 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Finding Growth in a Stagnant Market: What Can Wine Learn from Beer?
• Women in Wine: Systematic Exclusion & the Success of Tenacious Women
• Missouri Files Response for SCOTUS Review of 8th Circuit Retail Shipping Case
• How to Do Competitive Market Research—and Why Alcohol Brand Owners and Managers Should Be Doing More of It
• Bin to Bottle expands; OneHope opens Rutherford winery, Bread & Butter Napa TR opens
• Restaurant, Food, Ag & Travel Sectors Suffer Pandemic Image Declines
• Bye, Bye Wine Direct: The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! – (Sponsored link)

OBITUARIES

• Mark J. DeSoto had died [paywall?]

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Wineries Selling Up Doesn’t Mean Selling Out
• No, Chlorpyrifos was not invented by Nazis and is not related to Zyklon B
• Simultaneously evicted and not. Is Rabbit Ridge the Schrödinger’s Cat of Wineries?
• Rabbit Ridge Winery Bankruptcy Trustee Hires Farm Operator for 2021 Harvest; Most Grapes Still Unsold
• 2021 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced – (Sponsored link)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Hopkins fire burns to western shore of Lake Mendocino; 30% contained [paywall?]
• Bordeaux 2021 weather report

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Nevada Restricts Residents’ Rights to Receive DtC Shipments of Alcohol
• Be part of the biggest gathering of Bulk Wine, Bulk Spirits, and Private Label professionals in the US. –  (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Premiumization Leads Oregon Wine Category To New Heights [paywall?]
• Italian wine exports up 16% in first half of 2021
• Ciatti California Report September 2021
• Central Coast wine grape harvest underway
• Indiana wine grape harvest projected to be fruitful
• Champagne champions reserve system as yields down around 45%

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• California is close to permanently legalizing takeout cocktails and parklet drinking [paywall?]
• Get smart on Wine Chemistry with Clark Smith’s new online course – (Sponsored link)

COVID-19

• Retail Industry Seeks Clarity on COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
• Winter Is Coming—So Why Isn’t Every State Making Cocktails-to-Go Permanent?

DIVERSITY

• Mercy Torres Wins Full Ride for Studying Wine

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• How Premier Wine Regions Are Adapting to Climate Change

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Cognac under threat in Russia

REAL ESTATE

• Medieval Swiss castle that comes with its own vineyard, a huge wine cellar and ten bedrooms goes up for auction for £27.5m

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Due diligence in vineyard purchases

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Consumers’ Thirst for Wine Fuels the Storage and Cellaring Business
• Château Mouton Rothschild “Nebuchadnezzar” broke new auction record

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• With Massive Growth and Mixed Reviews, Scout & Cellar Cannot Be Ignored

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Waxsplaining – Let’s make enjoying wine harder!

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Wine Industry Financial Symposium Tickets Now on Sale

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• IOF2020 new Internet of Things technologies at the service of wine technicians (video)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Don’t Sleep on Ciliegiolo
• Bottle Variation

WINE PEOPLE

• How Katy Keating has brought a start up mentality to Lay & Wheeler
• Anaïs Bernard on innovating at Médoc’s Château Gadet-Terrefort

WINE PLACES

• Two Guys and an Unwanted Vineyard

WINE TOURISM

• The return of travel: prized bottles, luxury lounges and in-flight drinks

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• CT: Neighbors of Coventry winery complain about speeding, too many people at events

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• The role of rootstocks in establishing more resilient vineyards [paywall?]
• Soil signatures may provide wine’s most haunting music

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: ‘Return to normality’ impacts sales of BWS in grocery sector

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Lockdown accelerated Champagne’s growth in mainland China

SOUTH AFRICA

• How a Kitsch Wine Launched a South African Renaissance

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Inside the Heritage Grain Whiskey Movement