AUGUST 8, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• AlcBevs Bounce Back From COVID: Healthy Drinks Rule
• Zero-dollar Napa vineyard deal highlights handshakes
• C-Stores Continue As Wine Growth Channel [paywall?]
• Humanized Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yeast: Scientists Create Yeast With Important Human Genes
• Webinar – Mastering alcohol ecommerce in 2022 – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Chandon California Announces Start to the 2022 Harvest
• The 2022 harvest begins in Napa Valley [paywall?]
• Vintage 2022 in NZ: Healthy harvest numbers help rebuild exports
• OZ: Don’t panic, there might just be a pinot noir shortage
• Sicily’s Wines Leading the Italian Charge
• 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
• Family Wineries in Turmoil
• The Problem With Wine Bottles [paywall?]

WILDFIRES

• Wildfires destroy 90% of pre-phylloxera vines in Cretan village
• California Fire Map
• Oregon wildfires: Monitor fires burning in Oregon with this wildfire tracker

DROUGHT/WATER

• Will a third straight La Nina year worsen the drought in CA?
• In Dry California, Salty Water Creeps Into Key Waterways [paywall?]
• TX: Drought leads to smaller grape crop for Lubbock growers
• Worsening Texas drought taking a toll on wineries

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

• Another Blow for Napa Wine Tourism
• Sonoma County panel to examine farmworker safety [paywall?]
• Voucher program expanded to include e-tractors in California [paywall?]

DIVERSITY

• ‘I Had to Work Twice as Hard’: 5 Questions With Joy Spence

HEALTH

• Looser liquor laws boosted restaurants — and maybe problem drinking

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• International Wineries for Climate Action issues official IWCA certificate for member wineries
• Ruinart and its drive for better biodiversity and sustainability
• Wine had a past with sailboats. Does it have a future too?

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Domaine Drouhin Oregon Acquires Methven Family Vineyards in Willamette Valley’s Eola-Amity Hills AVA
• Why A Wine Photo Has Trader Joe’s Shoppers Crying Inflation
• George Clooney had tequila, Ryan Reynolds gin. Female stars? Wine’s in

AGRIFOODTECH

• Will Space Grapes Change the Future of Agriculture?

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• 2022 V Foundation Wine Celebration Raises $6.5 Million
• Festival Napa Valley Arts for All Gala Raises Over $3.9 Million
• Bordeaux Index records 37% revenue growth in H1 2022
• Fine wine trading firm LiveTrade toasts strong first half sales
• Liv-ex 100, in July the first drop (-0.3%) since June 2020: tensions are high

DATA & TRENDS

• How has the vineyard composition of France changed recently?

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Spitting Wine

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Aussie winemakers embrace corks again thanks to sustainability push
• Ball Corporation to Close Two Beverage Can Manufacturing Plants

MEDIA MATTERS

• PD wine writer Sarah Doyle: From food to wine and 17 countries in between [paywall?]
• ‘Living Wine’ chronicles natural winemakers against backdrop of climate change [paywall?]
• ECONTENT TV Started Production of an Original Docuseries About Ancient Vineyards in Spain

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How to destroy your Italian wine legacy in one generation

WINE PEOPLE

• Nathan Kandler Sets A Precedent
• Unfiltered: Riccardo Pasqua
• Pete Soergel, Winemaker Lynmar Estate, Sonoma (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Produttori Etna Nord: On Mount Etna Small is Beautiful
• Istria: Wine Across Borders

WINE HISTORY

• Scientists have revealed the composition of ancient Roman wine

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Does the Willamette Valley Need a “Signature White”?

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• New-to-nature yeast chromosome could be game changer for industry
• Bodegas Marqués de Vizhoja experiments with coffee to reduce fungal disease
• Impact of phylloxera and grapevine defenses on Lodi’s vaunted old vine wines

EUROPE & THE UK

• Bordeaux: Just Add Water

DOWN UNDER

• Putting Australian wine at the world’s fingertips
• NZ: Labour pains in Central Otago