APRIL 5, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Commerce7 Buys VineSpring To Offer The Best Customer-Centric Wine Industry Tech Solutions
• RDNC/Southern Wine Distro Market Share 50% Or More In 18 States
• Rombauer Buys 3 Vineyards In Sonoma, Amador Counties
• Webinar – Mastering alcohol ecommerce in 2022 – (Sponsored link)

OBITUARIES

• Terry Dunleavy’s Legacy

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• The Provi lawsuit and its potential impact
• 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 – Sponsored link

UKRAINE WINE

• Letters from Kyiv (updated 4/4)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Chablis – the threat from recurring frosts should not be ignored
• Frost strikes France again
• In Chablis vineyards, fear grows that destructive frosts may become the norm
• French fruit, vineyards endure coldest April day in 75 years

DROUGHT/WATER

• California snowpack virtually nonexistent in last survey of water year

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Wine List & QR Codes: Wine Management with Digital Marketing – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• South Australia’s cool 2022 vintage
• Napa Valley Grapegrowers 2021 Growing Conditions Report (video)
• Calif: Increased Demand for Raisin Varietals in 2021 Winemaking (podcast)
• The New Emergence: Upcoming Wine Regions in the USA – (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• John Duarte Launches Campaign for 13th Congressional District
• Sonoma County electric tractor firm to expand nationwide
• Wine & Spirits Spoken Here Announces the Retirement of Long-Time Wine Industry PR Veteran Rusty Eddy
• Cline Family Cellars Celebrates 40 Years
• Natural wine has paved the way for a fresh appreciation of sake. This boundary-blurring S.F. shop shows how [paywall?]
• Why attend the 2022 Future Drinks Expo? – (Sponsored link)

HEALTH

• When One More Drink Can be Dangerous to Your Health
• Monkeys’ fondness for boozy fruit could explain why humans love alcohol

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Retail cannabis sales open up for the first time in Napa County

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Napa City Council set to declare climate emergency [paywall?]
• If You Care About What’s in Your Wine, It’s Time to Pay Attention to the Workers Who Make It
• Naturally Bordeaux: preserving the region for the future with organics
• Planting mixes of flowers around farm fields helps keep bees healthy

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Can The Duckhorn Portfolio, Inc. (NAPA) Climb 31% to Reach the Level Wall Street Analysts Expect?
• Fresh Vine Wine Appoints Ellen Scipta as Chief Financial Officer

AGRIFOODTECH

• Banrock Station AR showcase environmental projects

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• NZ-UK Free Trade Agreement

DISTRIBUTORS

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

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Diversity drives the Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 index in March – Liv-ex
• Billionaire Joseph Lau Could Auction Off Over $20 Million In Wine And Porcelain After Seven-Figure Evergrande Loss [paywall?]

DATA & TRENDS

• WSWA’s SipSource Latest Channel Shifting Index (CSI) For On-Premise Reaches A New Recovery High

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Wine Lists Are Evolving Into Broader Beverage Lists
• Why Lambrusco Is So Hard To Find?
• Seasoned Sommelier and Wine Buyer Thomas Brenner talks us through his focus while evaluating the effectiveness of a wine program – (Sponsored link)

MARKETING & SALES

• Why Are Fashion Brands Crashing the Drinks Business? (podcast)

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Trezor users targeted following hack of email marketing company Mailchimp

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Demand for H-2A workers continues to grow in Yakima Valley, Washington state

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine Book Review: Britain, Imperialism, and the Wine World They Created
• Turning the Tables on Samantha Cole-Johnson
• Janelle Bitker to lead SF Chronicle Food & Wine team [paywall?]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How a Napa Valley-Paso Robles Collab Produced California’s Boldest Red Blend Yet
• The Case for Oaky Chardonnay
• History In A Glass: The Intoxicating Quality Of Old Vine Wines [paywall?]

WINE PEOPLE

• Meet the maker – interview with Justin Moran, co-founder of The Hidden Sea wine
• Emy Marinova, Shanghai-based co-owner of Bulgarian winery Burgozone
• Unfiltered: Stefano Barbarino
• The Wine Makers – Ricky Taylor (podcast)

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• The Oregon Supreme Court Rules Existing Ballot Title on Liquor Privatization Measure Will Stand
• Nuanced improvement for Washington wine industry
• Oregon Wine Experience moves to luxury Stage Pass development

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China: EMW adds another Ningxia winery