MARCH 17, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• French Seize Russian-Owned Wineries
• Concha y Toro’s Full-Year Sales Top $1 Billion [paywall?]
• Hope Remains for Marginalized Women in Wine
• Hawks Hill vs Hawk Hill
• Millennials and GenZers May Be Mobbing Your Tasting Room, But They Are The Quickest To Punt Out of Your Club
• Webinar – Mastering alcohol ecommerce in 2022 – (Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Wineries get new tools for protecting trademarks, but disputes continue
• Kylix/Harvard Land Purchase from Wine Group May Have Set Santa Barbara County Record
• Wine’s BIGGEST Unanswered, Market-Killing Question: Why?
• Embracing Technology In The Alco-Bev Industry With Southern Glazer’s, Nathan Mansperger – Sponsored link

UKRAINE WINE

• How the Asian drinks community is supporting Ukraine
• Wine and conflict

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Chemical Analysis Shows Effects of Wildfire Smoke on Grapes and Wines in Western U.S.

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• WineDirect Hooks Up With Vinum 55
• Add to cart: e-commerce activations to grow your wine and spirits’ online sales – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Premium sales dominate at Concha y Toro for the first time
• Chile: Santa Rita Estates predicts record production in Molina, Pumanque, and Cauquenes in mid-harvest report
• D.O. Cava enjoys record breaking 2021
• The New Emergence: Upcoming Wine Regions in the USA – (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Get smart on Wine Chemistry with Clark Smith’s new online course – (Sponsored link)

DIVERSITY

• Women Winemakers in Crete Seek to Restore an Ancient Tradition
• How a Zimbabwean built a million-dollar wine brand in a white-dominated industry
• The women winemakers of Lodi (part 1)
• Women making huge contributions at Mission Hill Family Estate

HEALTH

• A Flavonoid-Rich Diet, Including Wine, May Help Those with Parkinson’s

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Sonoma County slashes tax paid by commercial cannabis growers, offering relief to ailing industry

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• The myth of sustainable agriculture

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Prince Estate Battles Winery in ‘Purple Rain’ Trademark Dispute
• Mississippi: Chambers disagree over state’s role in wine and spirits distribution
• How we can be more like Ireland

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Virgin Wines subscription sales grows 23% in H1 2022

DISTRIBUTORS

• How Wineries Can Boost Their Restaurant Distribution – (Sponsored link)

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• The secondary market for Austrian wine is growing
• TN: Wine auction raises $730,000
• €1.5 million private wine collection to go under the hammer

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

• Combating Online Hate Speech, Major Drinks Marketers Pledge To “Engage Responsibly” [paywall?]

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Vinexpo New York marks post-Covid return with Drinks America debut
• 2022 London Wine Fair almost sold out after increased investment

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Does Indigenous Yeast Really Exist? The Wine Community is Divided.
• Why bother with Old Vines?
• #3: The Wine Heard Round The World [paywall]
• Why do we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in such a specifically tacky way? [paywall?]

WINE PEOPLE

• Getting to Know Hollywood’s Hottest Wine Expert
• Pieter Ferreira – Modern Day Maestro of Bubbles speaks to Lisse Garnett
• Unfiltered: Mathieu Germond
• Niki Wente of Wente Vineyards, Livermore Valley (podcast)
• An Interview with Pepe Raventós: The Prince of the Penedès (video)

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• New York Faces Setback In Plan to Revive To-go Cocktails

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Dealcoholisation: how to intervene without interfering with the original colour, structure and aromatic characteristics

DOWN UNDER

• Low intervention reaches New Zealand

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Oldest centenarian vines discovered in China’s Ningxia

BEWARE THE DANGER NOODLE

• Man Says Snake Survived in Sealed Jar for a Year, Bit Him When He Opened It

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• How Guinness Became a Global Powerhouse
• Is the end in sight for cask beer?