OCTOBER 19, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Demand for super-premium wine and spirits heading for potential slump in US
• Feds Say Vino Farms Shortchanged Sonoma County Workers
• Treasury Wine Estates announces completion of Château Lanessan acquisition
• Louisiana places new requirements on wineries and fulfillment houses
• Napa & Sonoma Are Blowing The Doors Off The SVB Winery Survey. (Other Regions Falter As Entry Deadline Hits Today)
• Staying compliant amid new beverage alcohol industry regulations: On demand – (Sponsored Link.)

OBITUARIES

• RIP Vika, Ukrainian Sommelier

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Pivotal Bankruptcy Court Hearing Today For Spring Mountain Vineyards
• Storm Clouds Ahead for Global Wine Trade
• Tracing Wine’s Authenticity through Terroir
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Washington Harvest’s Rollercoaster Ride
• Burgundy’s 2022 Harvest Is Shaping Up to Be an Outstanding Vintage
• Italian agri-food exports are breaking historical records: wine is the most exported product
• French Wine Output To Rise 18% After Early Harvest
• Extreme summer shrinks Cava harvest in 2022

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Spring Mountain Vineyard Comes to Bankruptcy Court
• Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association Completes Rebrand, Now Livermore Valley Wine Community
• Established In The 1970s, Central Coast J.Lohr Vineyards & Vines Plans For The Next Decade’s Competition, Drought And Marketing To Gen X [paywall?]
• Napa’s new wine shop caters to local industry pros [paywall?]
• French Laundry founder subject of documentary screening [paywall?]

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• California to require insurance discounts for property owners who reduce wildfire risk
• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

WEATHER

• OZ: Vineyards impacted by floods in Victoria

DROUGHT/WATER

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces $210 Million for Drought Resilience Projects In the West

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Experimental vineyard to bring climate change ‘training ground’ indoors

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Digital Advancements and Adoption are Strengthening Relationships in the Alcohol Industry
• Sommsation, The Destination For Unique Wine Experiences, Launches Their Wine Marketplace

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Is ‘regenerative farming’ a buzz word you know? [paywall?]

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Treasury Sees Premium Wine Demand Solid Across Key Markets
• Constellation Brands Announces Promotion of Brian Bennett to SVP, Corporate Counsel

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Julian Robertson’s Family to Sell New Zealand Winery Business [paywall?]

AGRIFOODTECH

• Wine Tech Part 2: Winemaker Nicolas Quillé MW (podcast)

DISTRIBUTORS

• Provi Strengthens Distributor Division to Enhance Partnerships and Marketplace Experience

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Napa’s 2022 Harvest Stomp Auction Raises $3.3 Million for Charity
• Barolo en primeur auction gathers momentum as 70 producers join line-up
• Has Burgundy reached a peak?

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG (video)

MARKETING & SALES

• How Prosecco Became The World’s Most Popular Sparkling Wine: With A Name Change [paywall?]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• How a TikTok trend lead to a 501% increase in searches for Negroni Sbagliato

MEDIA MATTERS

• “Blind Ambition” Is the Wine Movie the World Needs Right Now

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Is It Wine or Cider? Why Co-Fermentation Is Heating Up
• Geoffrey Dean on how Swiss Wine is scaling new heights of quality
• A forgotten wine grape
• Faith In Fakes

WINE PEOPLE

• Joe Rochioli Jr., the Humble Patriarch of Russian River Valley Pinot Noir
• 10 Questions: Napa winemaker Matthew Nagy makes wine using ‘Benevolent Neglect’ [paywall?]
• In conversation: Caroline Frey of Château La Lagune and Paul Jaboulet Aîné
• He makes fantastic wine on his grandparents’ Alta Langa farm. But the DOCG won’t let him in.
• A Class Act: Jane Skilton’s wine education
• Meet Paul Siguqa, farm labourer’s son turned wine baron

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Do We Really Want Texas to Be “Wine Country”?
• WA: Precept Wine enters the spirits business
• MD: Growing Wholesale Wine Grapes to Meet Demand at Schmidt Farms

ACADEMIA

• Sensory room at UC Davis provides immersive experience for tasting food
• Ramona’s grape growers help San Diego State University researchers study impact of climate change on vineyards

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Find out what makes the ultimate Malbec

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK Government Reverses Budget and Raises Alcohol Taxes
• Former Carlsberg exec joins Chapel Down to grow English wine
• Green light for Vineyards of Alava appellation in Rioja Alavesa
• Duty freeze U-turn ‘extremely disappointing’, says WSTA

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: NSW Wine criticises proposed expansion of Return and Earn scheme