FEBRUARY 1, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• What’s Ahead for the Wine Business? Wine Industry Leadership Conference Next Week
• Rabobank: The Most Important Economic Trends of 2022 (podcast)
• Pix Opens Its New online Wine Discovery Platform to Everyone
• Baristas Coffee partners with DoorDash to offer alcohol home delivery [paywall?]
• The Dust Settles On Prowein’s Rescheduled Date: What We’ve Learned [paywall?]
• Covid Clobbers Valentine’s Day Restaurant Plans
• Webinar: Alcohol marketplaces and delivery apps: Current regulatory issues – (Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Restaurant beverage directors adjust their inventories to pandemic-era drinkers
• Rabbit Ridge Future Depends On Tangled Bankruptcy Assets
• Bye, Bye Wine Direct: The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! – (Sponsored link)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Green Wine Future: Wildfires (podcast)

DROUGHT/WATER

• Unified Symposium Presents Case Studies for Three Water-Efficient Wineries
• Calif: Dry January Raises Drought Concerns, Precipitation Relief Not Immediate

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Winery DTC Shipments Reach Record $4.2 Billion in 2021
• California DTC Spirits shipping Bill clears Senate 23-2
• Add to cart: e-commerce activations to grow your wine and spirits’ online sales – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• The New Emergence: Upcoming Wine Regions in the USA – (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa arm of Court of Master Sommeliers diversifies board further with 4 new picks
• Foley Family Wines expands sales leadership
• Calif: Two New Crush District 11 Vineyard Cost Studies Released Today
• Get smart on Wine Chemistry with Clark Smith’s new online course – (Sponsored link)

DIVERSITY

• Fresno State Prof Delves Deeply Into Black-owned Wineries
• Our Legacy Harvested Launches Inaugural BIPOC Internship Program Dedicated to Bringing Diversity to Wine Industry
• Dusty Baker’s Wine Business Keeps Him Busy
• Meet the New Female-Founded Wine Brand From Mexico

HEALTH

• What have we learned from Dry January 2022?
• Do Fitness Lovers Drink More? New Study Says Yes
• Could this ‘wine mom’ get through Dry January? [paywall?]

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• How the wine industry can build a more sustainable future

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• The Internet Fell in Love with Their Wine Brand’s Logo. The Result Was a Vital Lesson on Trademarks

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Vintage Wine Estates Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2022 Conference Call and Webcast

DISTRIBUTORS

• Republic National Distributing Company Appoints Nicholas Mehall as President and CEO
• How Wineries Can Boost Their Restaurant Distribution – (Sponsored link)

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• Debating and Debunking Generations of Wine Myths: A Wine Access Webinar

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Seasoned Sommelier and Wine Buyer Thomas Brenner talks us through his focus while evaluating the effectiveness of a wine program – (Sponsored link)

MARKETING & SALES

• With Charitable Partnerships and Loyalty Programs, the Wine Industry Embraces Affinity Marketing

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Successful Succession Planning for Family-owned Wine Businesses

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Italian Wine’s Amphora Revolution
• Can you preserve open wine successfully?
• How Cristal 2014 is keeping Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon on a learning curve

WINE PEOPLE

• Five minutes with Jerome Jacober, Eminent Wines
• Benoit Landanger on future Burgundy’s Domaine de La Pousse d’Or

WINE PLACES

• Madrid’s Wine Scene Deserves Your Attention

WINE EDUCATION

• Jancis Robinson launches wine tasting course with BBC Maestro

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• PA: Conditional-use hearing for a proposed vineyard and tasting room takes place in Penn Township

EUROPE & THE UK

• Chianti Classico DOCG raises the bar: Producers to add new subzone and Gran Selezione
• Cava de Guarda Superior: what’s the deal with the new Cava rules?
• UK wine & spirits industry fights ‘unfair’ new duty proposals
• UK: Sales of no and low-alcohol products soar in January
• UK: Trivento double-digit growth in ‘shrinking wine market’
• UK: Dry January pushes up no and low sales, among inflation squeeze
• UK: January drinks sales down from pre-pandemic levels

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: The Tahbilk group announces the appointment of new CEO
• OZ: VitiCanopy mobile app invented for grape growers

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentine truck drivers stranded at Chilean border by slow Covid testing

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Do Spirits Need to Be Sustainable to Sell?
• Amidst Mainstream Growth, Some Tequila Producers Are Sticking to Their Roots
• The Ideal Wood for Whiskey is at Risk. Can it be Saved?