AUGUST 1, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Reimers, Krasilsa Pacific Farms To Pay $925,000 To Settle Environmental Damage Lawsuit [paywall?]
• US House allocates funding for wine smoke-exposure research, permit processing
• Can a State Restrict DtC Shipping of Alcohol into Other States?
• AB InBev moves into wine with Dante Robino winery in Argentina
• Pot Drinks Are Ready to Take on Their Alcoholic Competitors [paywall?]
• Millennial Wealth Soars! (Shouldn’t You Be Selling Them More Wine?)
• Webinar – Mastering alcohol ecommerce in 2022 – (Sponsored link)

OBITUARIES

• Clive Coates MW dies

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• California North Coast wine grape harvest gets earlier start
• Hot, dry summer set to make 2022 a great year for English wine
• United States, The World Market That Grows The Most In Its Wine Imports
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Bankruptcy Trustee Rips Into Rabbit Ridge Owner In Contempt Of Court Battle
• Can New Strategies Breathe Life Into Some of Napa’s Most Storied Wine Brands?
• American rosé, once scorned, just keeps getting better and better [paywall?]

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Scorching Heat and Wildfires Worry European Winemakers
• California wildfire: McKinney Fire spreads rapidly in north of state
• ‘Extreme Heat’ forecast provides California temperature projections for mid- and late-century
• Wildfires in West explode in size amid hot, windy conditions
• Why two California wildfires had very different outcomes [paywall?]
• Heat wave puts Oregon’s new workplace safety rules to the test [paywall?]

DROUGHT/WATER

• Marin County farmers rush to save water as drought predicted to stretch into 2023

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Time to get your visitor pass for USA Trade Tasting and meet the world Chicago – (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• CA wineries can now manage their ABC licenses online
• Biggest environmental issues facing California? Drought, wildfires and climate change, according to new PPIC survey.

UKRAINE WINE

• UK Wine Merchant Switches to Plastic as Ukraine Glassworks Close [paywall?]

COVID-19

• Post-COVID reflections

DIVERSITY

• The Black Wine Guy Experience: Packing 50 Lives into 54 Years

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Climate-edge Viticulture Now the Safe Bet
• Calif: Officials to discuss climate policies related to agriculture

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Why a Maryland congressman has spent more than $400,000 on a Colorado liquor license ballot initiative

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Diageo going from strength to strength, results show

DISTRIBUTORS

• Morlet becomes latest Napa vineyard to release on La Place de Bordeaux
• Links Concept becomes exclusive distributor of Napa’s Favia for China

DATA & TRENDS

• How much of US agriculture is owned by foreigners?

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Wine Connoisseurs, in Coupling, Discover the Perfect Blend [paywall?]

MARKETING & SALES

• As The No-Alcohol Category Grows, One Brand Sees 454% Growth [paywall?]

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Update: Ingredient labels and nutrition facts for wine [paywall]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Road Less Traveled Revealed the World of Ischia
• Battle of the sexes
• Natural Wine Redux

WINE PEOPLE

• How a Zimbabwean built a million-dollar wine brand
• Bertus van Zyl – Belong Wine Co., Tank Garage Winery, and James Cole Winery (podcast)
• Cameron Hughes Talks de Négoce
• Vine Science Stalwart Dominic Pecchenino
• Cellar Success for Blair Fox
• The Man Behind the Oscars of Wine

WINE PLACES

• Loire wines: a first time visitor’s impression of this great wine region
• Piacenza’s Obscure Wine Scene Is Italy’s Best-kept Secret

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Japanese beetle found in Richland, Wash.
• Couple buys land in bid to make Oregon wine biz bubble
• OR: Newberg’s Alexana Winery names Tresider Burns its new head winemaker
• ND: State grants boost grape and wine industry

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Is there a more important winemaking decision than picking date?

EUROPE & THE UK

• Re-elected Cava president pledges to build ‘prestige’
• The Luxury Wine Cooperatives Of Northern Italy [paywall?]

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wine industry leaders discuss alternative packaging

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Penfolds launches a China-exclusive wine