SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Wine Retailer Interstate Shipping and the Courts: An Update
• Sipsource’s Latest CSI (Channel Shifting Index) Shows Champagne and Cocktails Continue to Advance On-Premise
• Without federal aid for wildfires, California’s wine industry could collapse, vintners say [paywall?]
• 2021 Sonoma County Wine Auction Raises Over $1.7 Million to Help Support Sonoma County Nonprofits
• Americans are using alcohol to cope with pandemic stress: Nearly 1 in 5 report ‘heavy drinking’
• Digital grocery buyers have reached critical mass
• Bye, Bye Wine Direct: The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! – (Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• ‘Super resilient and super creative’: How Sonoma County wineries survived the pandemic [paywall?]
• The existential terror of choosing wine & how consumers will soon be able to avoid it
• Court filing alleges Hugh Reimers conspired with Langtry Farms insider in illegal scheme to sell smoke-tainted wine
• No, Chlorpyrifos was not invented by Nazis and is not related to Zyklon B
• 2021 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced – (Sponsored link)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Fire breaks out near Sonoma, huge cloud of smoke seen across Wine Country

DROUGHT/WATER

• How Microdrip Irrigation Systems Use Less Water and Could Change Farming Forever [paywall?]
• New state data highlights paltry water conservation in city of Sonoma
• Why Californians are not conserving water this drought.
• North Dakota wine industry challenged by drought

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Be part of the biggest gathering of Bulk Wine, Bulk Spirits, and Private Label professionals in the US. –  (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Oregon Vintage Beats the Heat
• South Australian exporters contribute to record breaking success
• What to do about about fortified wines’ straitened market?
• Export competition between South Africa’s raisins, grapes and wine – and the surprisingly low average price of wine in the UK

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma State University Wine Business Institute Celebrates 25 Years
• Pesticide drift a concern in Central Valley
• Inside one of California’s most promising new wineries, harvesting fruit in unexpected places [paywall?]
• Return To Wine Country, Post-COVID: Letter From Sonoma County [paywall?]
• Get smart on Wine Chemistry with Clark Smith’s new online course – (Sponsored link)

COVID-19

• On Premise Delta Variant Impact Webinar (video)
• The next pandemic-related shortage? Wine and liquor
• Calif: Winery construction during COVID complicated by price hikes in materials [paywall?]
• Battle over vaccine mandates lands on white-linen tablecloths of Napa

DIVERSITY

• How Women in the Vineyard Make for Better Wine Business
• Online auction for Golden Vines diversity initiative

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Troon Vineyard Bottles World’s First Wines with Regenerative Organic Certification
• Organic wine: a focus for the Old World
• New international sustainability organisation sets ambitious goals

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Wine Institute Applauds House Passage of Critical Wildfire, Drought Relief
• Supreme Court news: Wine retailer shipping case distributed for Conference

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Vintage Wine Estates names new operations chief
• Constellation Brands Announces Plan to Relocate Company Global Headquarters to Downtown Rochester, N.Y.

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• WineBid Celebrates its 25th Anniversary as the Largest Global Online Wine Auction Marketplace
• The broadening trade in Italian wine

MARKETING & SALES

• Cognac Rémy Martin serves out-of-the-box ads on Facebook and Instagram

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Why the French wine industry is running out of wooden cases, boxes and glass bottles

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• All change at ProWein

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• How drinks brands are capitalising on connected packaging

MEDIA MATTERS

• By the Bottle: Jeff Siegel

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Contested Concept of Great Wine
• Why Aren’t You Drinking Cabernet Franc Right Now?

WINE PEOPLE

• Life Lessons with Faouzi Issa of Lebanon’s Domaine des Tourelles
• VA: Richmond Wine Society to honor Barboursville’s Paschina

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• A Growing Movement to Revive Kansas Wine

ACADEMIA

• NZ: Otago Polytechnic Introducing Wine-industry Programme

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Mystery on The Bottling Line
• Reducing Irrigation Achieves Same Quality and Yield in Winegrape Research
• Scientists, officials guard against new pests
• Researchers work with growers on efficient vineyards

EUROPE & THE UK

• La Palma volcano causes trouble for wine producers
• UK: Flick Drummond MP calls for wine duty cut to help vineyards
• France: How Calais wine warehouses plan to lure back Brits
• UK pub and bars predicted to recover fully by 2024

DOWN UNDER

• How Grenache is bouncing back in Barossa and McLaren Vale

SOUTH AFRICA

• The Human Factor

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• ‘Sommelier: Don’t Try This at Home’ Wins Wine Spectator’s 2021 Video Contest