OCTOBER 20, 2021 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Avalara Acquires CrowdReason to Help Businesses Manage Property Tax Compliance
• Jackson Family Wines Warns of a Holiday Wine Shortage
• Total Wine shakes up Michigan’s alcoholic beverage market
• FTC warns Amazon, Walmart, & 100s of companies about steep fines for fake reviews, deceptive endorsements
• COVID Progress: Consumers Get More Comfortable Dining Out. But Diners Significantly Favor Outdoors
• Bye, Bye Wine Direct: The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! – (Sponsored link)

OBITUARIES

• Barbara Winiarski Memorial Service Announced

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Riboli drilling test water wells for possible Rabbit Ridge Winery Purchase
• 2021 will be the best year ever for a lot of wineries!
• 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
• 2021 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced – (Sponsored link)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Alisal Fire at 93 Percent Contained

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

• Languedoc: Bulk wine campaign poised to begin
• BC: Record-breaking summer heat and drought-like conditions paying off for island wine producers

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Scheid Family Wines Reports Second Quarter Results
• 2 Sonoma County winemakers team up to buy Mendocino County vineyard and start syrah wine brand
• Napa County considers limiting house size in ag preserve [paywall?]
• Get smart on Wine Chemistry with Clark Smith’s new online course – (Sponsored link)

DIVERSITY

• How CJ McCollum is using his love of wine to become a different type of trailblazer

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Vegan Wines and Where to Find Them
• Wine people against climate blah
• Vines to be frozen to protect France’s most valuable wine source
• For sustainable wine and food in Colorado, this valley is surprisingly at the cutting edge
• Trefethen Family Vineyards Partners with Earthly Labs on Carbon Capture for the Wine Industry

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Wine fraud suit brought by three DOs in Southern Catalunya

AGRIFOODTECH

• Could robot cats solve Japan’s waiter shortfall?

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• Free Webinar 10/28 – Is it possible to express varietal thiols in red wines?

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• A Collection of Coveted French Burgundy Wines May Fetch $1 Million at Auction Next Month
• Bidding opens at Sotheby’s inaugural French auction

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• A shortage of glass bottles means wine is sitting in barrels for longer, leading it to taste ‘like a sawmill’

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Bloody Big Drinks Summit offers five days of online business insights

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• How to Take Over Family Small Business Without Alienating Your Parents [paywall?]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Great British Restaurant Review
• On Aroma and Emotion
• Are Mustard Drinks a Thing Now?

WINE PEOPLE

• The Business of English Wine (2): Robin Hutson, Chairman of the Pig Hotels and founder of Hotel du Vin
• A Week With the Wine World’s Playboy King in “the Real South of France”

WINE PLACES

• Grape Harvesting And Wine Making In The Shadow Of Vesuvius [paywall?]

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY: Stacey Soloviev plans 40-key North Fork winery and resort
• In Puerto Rico, A Century-Old Policy Hinders the Rise of Natural Wine

EUROPE & THE UK

• New behaviours driving wine market opportunities in the UK
• UK: Sparkling wine premium could be scrapped in alcohol duty overhaul
• UK: Christmas alcohol set to cost an all-time high