SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Conflicting Studies Send Contrasting Messages About the Health Effects of Drinking
• Fine Wine Buoyant in a Turbulent Market
• How to tell if a wine was farmed with Roundup [paywall?]
• US wine industry will generate over $276 billion in economic impact this year
• Can luxury wine live without glass bottles?
• Interest Rate Fright? Today’s Nothing Compared With The 1970s & 80s.
• Does Anyone Still Care About Wine Certifications? — (Sponsored link)

OBITUARIES

• Global Drinks Intel CEO and editor-in-chief Alex Smith dies
• Adio Nicolas Belfrage MW

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Why Coca-Cola Needs to Tap Into the Alcohol Market
• End-of-year compliance tips for direct wine shippers
• Pix – the inside story [paywall?, or 1 hour free trial]
• You want weigh tags, not a TTB summons. Click Now To Get Your Harvest Regulatory Training – (Sponsored Link.)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• El Dorado County Grapes for Sale, They’ve been growing wine grapes for over 150 years!
• Fermentation underway in Champagne for “solar” 2022 vintage
• Napa and Sonoma gather grapes
• Wine Harvest 2022: Brutal, Hot Summer Means Lower Yields, Hope for Good Quality [paywall?]
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma County Wine Auction Raises $1.8 Million For Charity – Totaling $40 Million Since Inception [paywall?]
• The Bay Area’s kosher wineries are struggling to escape the Manischewitz stigma [paywall?]
• Can Cutting-Edge Technology and Character Coexist in Winemaking? — (Sponsored link)

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

DROUGHT/WATER

• Drought in California Catching up to Almond Growers

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Are irrigation and artificial ponds the key to mitigating climate change in Italian viticulture? Rhabdomancers wanted.

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• How Champagne Growers Are Trying To Reduce Carbon Emissions

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• What Farmers Really Want From the 2023 Farm Bill
• Staying compliant amid new beverage alcohol industry regulations: On demand – (Sponsored Link.)

REAL ESTATE

• Napa wine property on sale for $35m as historic site sold

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Naked Wines brushes off CEO woes for first standalone tasting
• Vintage Wine Estates Stock Has Taken A Beating – But Some Physical Wine Investments May Offer Opportunity

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Pix Wasn’t the Only Wine Tech Failure I’ve Seen Up-Close

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Sotheby’s Hong Kong autumn sale targets US$16 million
• Le Petit Cheval Blanc 2020 released – Liv-ex

MARKETING & SALES

• Drizly Introduces Drizly Ads

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• One Step Beyond Conference: consumer trends, innovation & technology

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How The Wine Savant Became The Most Followed Glassware Company on Tik Tok

WINE CRIME

• NY: Winery lost $13,000 from man’s fake reservations

MEDIA MATTERS

• Wine Writer Jancis Robinson on Conversation with Jason (video)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How Do You Smell?

WINE PLACES

• The Ch de Sérame dream

WINE HISTORY

• How the Visionary Class of ’72 Created California’s Wine Wonderland [paywall?]

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NYC: Andrew Fisher Is Furthering Astor Wines & Spirits’ Legacy by Transitioning to Employee Ownership

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Remote fermentation monitoring (video)
• Yeasts that intensify floral aromas in wine (video)
• Diversity of endophytic bacterial microbiota in grapevine shoot xylems varies depending on wine grape-growing region, cultivar, and shoot growth stage
• Scientists fight powdery mildew with genetics
• Group’s grape research sparks interest, innovation

EUROPE & THE UK

• Extra flavour and fraud prevention on the menu for Europe’s beer and wine industries

DOWN UNDER

• How the future is in safe hands at New Zealand’s Craggy Range

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Penfolds debuts its first Bordeaux wine in China

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentine wine: ‘The hills are the future of Mendoza’, says Edy del Popolo

AROUND THE SOLAR SYSTEM

• Mumm announces its collaboration with Axiom Space: Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar champagne, a symbol of our culture, will embark on future human space flights