OCTOBER 3, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Spring Mountain Vineyard Has Filed For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
• Billionaire Pinault Expands Chateau Latour Wine With Henriot Champagne Deal [paywall?]
• Fire Rules a Rocky Road for Napa Wineries
• Wine Consumer Trends: Millennials Rising
• Shipping Gets Cheaper As Global Supply Chain Flips From Backlogs to Empty Containers
• Does Anyone Still Care About Wine Certifications? — (Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• There’s No Such Thing as ‘Low-Intervention’ Wine — So Why Does the Industry Champion the Term?
• Duckhorn Hits 52-Week Low. Winemaker’s Stock Isn’t Aging Well.
• Calif Gov Newsom Vetoes Bill To Prohibit Foreign Governments From Buying CA Agricultural Land
• You want weigh tags, not a TTB summons. Click Now To Get Your Harvest Regulatory Training – (Sponsored Link.)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• How to Crack the U.S. Import Market
• OZ: Grape growers facing tough decisions in national red wine glut (video)
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• A Safra Scion Could Lose His $200 Million Winery [paywall?]
• Sausalito wine arsonist sprung from prison early due to health issues
• SB-518 Alcoholic Beverage Tax: winegrower returns and schedules
• Quintessential Strengthens Its Communications Leadership
• Lodi’s Viticulture Research Vision Expands
• Napa County ponders next farmworker housing steps [paywall?]
• Can Cutting-Edge Technology and Character Coexist in Winemaking? — (Sponsored link)

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• New technology could keep wildfire smoke out of wine
• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

DROUGHT/WATER

• La Niña: What it means for California’s drought and the upcoming winter rainy season [paywall?]
• How much snow does California need to escape drought?

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Climate change in the Douro: ‘Organic is not the solution’

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• WSWA’s Glossy Headline may stick but does it address the problem?
• Time to get your visitor pass for USA Trade Tasting and meet the world Chicago – (Sponsored link

DIVERSITY

• J Vineyards Partners With Underrepresented Chefs To Bring Important Conversations About Equity & Inclusion To Wine Country [paywall?]

HEALTH

• Modern women, and stress-induced wine drinking
• When an Italian Takes to Drink

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Greenwashing – are you looking a little grubby?
• Fine wine policy institute releases global sustainability report

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• The value of “produced by fermentation” for US wineries (video)
• Staying compliant amid new beverage alcohol industry regulations: On demand – (Sponsored Link.)

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• More Bordeaux Estates Change Hands
• Drinks shares fall out of favour as stock market takes a battering

AGRIFOODTECH

• Heineken launches Bluetooth bottle opener to help Aussies clock off

DISTRIBUTORS

• RNDC Workers Join Teamsters Local 988

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Bordeaux’s trade share rises in last week of September – Liv-ex
• Rare Fine Wines and Tasting Experience for Auction at Golden Vines
• Highlights of the Sonoma County Wine Auction [paywall?]
• The Travel Retail Fine Wines Alliance launches to tackle GTR
• Montes launches new icon wine, Montes Muse, on La Place

MARKETING & SALES

• The Wine and Spirits Retailers’ Guide to Store Design

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Success of ProWine Singapore 2022 demonstrates strong demand in SE Asia’s growing wines business
• Juul-Mortensen opens 37th TFWA World Exhibition & Conference

WINE CRIME

• Chinese Government Busts $51.4 Million Wine Smuggling Ring

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Generation Wine: How Family Wineries Handle Succession

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Natural Wine and the Absurd
• A Guide to Austria’s Underrated Red Grapes
• Olfactory Epiphany

WINE PEOPLE

• Will Gondak Strides Toward Independence
• Ridgefield sommelier Jillian Fontana uncorks the stereotypes surrounding wine appreciation
• Co-Founder Sam Jordan Shares How He Created Red Bear Winery
• Paul Anamosa PhD, Vineyard Soil Technologies, Napa Valley (podcast)
• Andriana Duchworth & Laura McGilley from the Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers (podcast)
• Gabi Lacureanu, the free man who understood how to put music in wine
• Q&A: Federico Gordini, Milano Wine Week founder and president

WINE PLACES

• Bodegas Roda: a contemporary wine “bottling landscape and vintages”

WINE EDUCATION

• US leads WSET enrolment in academic year 2021-22

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Beverage Alcohol Retailers Take Stand Against Big Store Power Play In Colorado
• Some New Mexico lawmakers debate higher tax rate for alcohol
• NY one of US’s major wine producers — but good luck finding home-grown brands in Big Apple
• Queretaro, Mexico Promotes its Wine Country
• The Case for Pennsylvania Wine

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• As the Fertilizer Crisis Bites, Farmers Take Drastic Steps [paywall?]

EUROPE & THE UK

• English wine – a still future?
• Between inflation and the weak pound, Italian wine restarts from London and the UK market

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Sotheby’s to auction world’s oldest single malt whisky