NOVEMBER 18, 2021 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Why Wall Street is pouring into the wine business [paywall?]
• Treasury Wine Estates : Acquisition of Frank Family Vineyards Investor Presentation
• Naked Wines Shares Fall Most in 5 Years on Cut Sales Forecast [paywall?]
• Napa’s Court of Master Sommeliers seeks to oust 6 members in sex-misconduct investigation
• Judges rip Pennsylvania LCB for collecting handling fees for wine and liquor [paywall?]
• Will Cannabis Drinks Alter the Market for Beer, Wine and Spirits?
• Covid Comfort Stagnates for Restaurant Dining As New Surge Emerges
• Bye, Bye Wine Direct: The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! (Sponsored link)

OBITUARIES

• Italy: Farewell to Roberto Felluga

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Jackson Family Wines’ contractor accused of wrongdoing in 2020 Glass Fire backblaze [paywall?]
• Billion-dollar Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Sale A Tactic To Bid Up The Price Up From A Fraction Of That
• Upsized or downsized? Winc’s inflated statement on its IPO
• Rabbit Ridge Winery Properties Set for Over-Bid Auction

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Cain Vineyard Rises from the Ashes
• Floods cut off BC wine country

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Beaujolais Nouveau
• United Is Choosing a Very Weird Time to Reinstate Alcohol on Flights
• New online retailer seeks to redefine the term ‘plonk’

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• How Did the Texas Winter Storm Impact 2021’s Harvest?
• BC Wine Industry Report – Fall 2021
• Shipping container shortage is changing what shows up on shelves

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Lodi Winegrape Commission celebrates its 30th anniversary
• ‘A drinking club with a charity problem’ [paywall?]
• Get smart on Wine Chemistry with Clark Smith’s new online course – (Sponsored link)

COVID-19

• COVID Accelerator Drives E-Commerce

DIVERSITY

• A Drama About Black Wine Barons Is Coming To OWN

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Legal Pot Growers Frustrated By Illegal Operations in Oregon [paywall?]

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Regenerative viticulture: what is it, and why all the fuss now?
• Washington state’s wine industry prepares to launch sustainable certification program
• California wine industry has years of sustainable certification
• Bonterra Becomes World’s First Organically Farmed, Climate Neutral Certified Wine

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Illinois Proposes Coupon and Rebate regulation-taking industry feedback
• A New Wave of Vermont Distillers Pushes Legislators to Modernize Liquor Laws

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Wine CEO warns ‘we’re going to need to’ raise prices [paywall?]
• How Treasury Wine is punting on a $310 chardonnay to cure its hangover [paywall?]
• Diageo market share ambition implies stock party [paywall?]

AGRIFOODTECH

• Mechanized farming: a conversation with Steve Vierra of Derby Wine Estates

DISTRIBUTORS

• Justerini & Brooks adds Napa brand to its portfolio
• An Italian wine great returns to the U.S.

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Virtual Oregon Wine Auction Raises More than $850,000 for Vineyard Worker Healthcare
• The most-searched-for wines on Liv-ex in 2021

DATA & TRENDS

• Hard Seltzer Has Left the Building: Wine Opinions (PDF)

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Male, Female or Nonbinary? Who’s gendering wine?

MARKETING & SALES

• How Cairanne and Lirac are aiming to attract and engage new audiences

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Wine Paris unveils ambitions ahead of 2022 return

MEDIA MATTERS

• A book review of “On California”

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Music and wine – some reflections
• Puzzles About Taste

WINE PEOPLE

• Vintner and former filmmaker Anna Arrowsmith reflects on her Solvang wine bar’s first year in business
• Q&A: Valerie Pajotin, Director of Anivin De France
• ‘I Had To Stick To What I Knew Was Right,’ Says David Stare
• ‘We Have Really Tried To Push Ourselves,’ Says Fred Merwarth
• ‘Producing Delicious Wines Takes Hard Work,’ Says Joseph Carr of Josh Cellars
• John Frazer of Frazer Woods

WINE PLACES

• Foster + Partners nestles Le Dôme winery in French vineyards

WINE EDUCATION

• As East Coast Wine Industry Grows, So Too Wine Education Programs

WINE TOURISM

• Wine Helping Tourism Sector Recovery in Greece, Italy, and Portugal

ACADEMIA

• Kent State University Ashtabula wine degrees receive $180,000 research grant

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Trellising materials soar to record prices
• French ‘hybrid’ wine barrel made of clay and wood ‘is the future’

EUROPE & THE UK

• How the EU’s Geographical Indications scheme helps foster economic development in rural areas
• Frescobaldi opens office in Bordeaux

DOWN UNDER

• John Hart to take the chair at Australian Grape and Wine

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Pernod Ricard to launch its first Chinese single malt whisky