OCTOBER 20, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Key Triggers to Online Wine Purchasing
• How To Lose $100M: Why Venture Capitalists Don’t Care About Your New Beverage Alcohol Startup
• Naked Wines Trims FY 2023 Revenue Expectations; Replaces Chairman in Board Shakeup
• Napa County officials respond in fermenting vineyard dispute
• Vista Equity Partners Completes Acquisition of Avalara
• How much wine is in… wine?
• 2/3 Of Consumers Cutting Back On BevAlc Purchases Because of Inflation. 3/4 Going Less To Bars.
• Staying compliant amid new beverage alcohol industry regulations: On demand – (Sponsored Link.)

OBITUARIES

• Leroy Creasy, touter of red wine’s health benefits, dies at 84

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• 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
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Consorzio dell’Asti DOCG: An Unexpected Vintage of a Highly Aromatic, Top-Quality Crop

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Forbes Names Vintage Wine Estates President Terry Wheatley to the Second Annual “50 Over 50” List
• Scheid Family Wines Reports Second Quarter Results
• Composting in wine country: Napa Valley’s multi-decade circular economy story
• Russian River Valley’s Pinot Noir Neighborhoods
• Why Lodi Is California’s Hidden Wine Gem

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

DROUGHT/WATER

• California-Nevada Drought Status Update
• DWR Releases California Water Plan 2023 Assumptions and Estimates Report
• New mega reservoir in final planning phase for California

CLIMATE CHANGE

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

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• DtC Shipment Value Flat, Volume Falls
• Blue Cloud slotting fees and the so what

COVID-19

• ProWine Shanghai to postpone due to COVID restrictions

DIVERSITY

• Low-Intervention Pop-Up Rude Mouth Dreams of an Inclusive and Accessible Future for Wine
• Entrepreneur Becomes First Black Man To Own Vineyard, Winery in South Africa

NFTs, BLOCKCHAIN, & THE METAVERSE

• Maison Perrier-Jouët releases last vintage 2007 Jeroboam as NFT

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• LVMH’s Diversified Luxury Brand Portfolio is Recession Armor
• Pernod Ricard sees ‘dynamic growth’ and expects more in 2023
• Naked Wines Jumps 25% on Cost-Cutting Success, Board Shakeup
• Naked Wines cuts staff by 6%
• Even after rising 25% this past week, Naked Wines shareholders are still down 86% over the past year

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Grands Chais de France expands global footprint with South African wine estate

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• OZ: Minister for trade announces wine country managers for Japan and Korea

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Now available to all: Extended Report -‘Champagne: The growing secondary market for luxury’ :Liv-ex

MARKETING & SALES

• How to successfully navigate customer reviews

MEDIA MATTERS

• Inside Bordeaux and Inside Burgundy books now wholly owned by their authors
• Alice Feiring – To Fall in Love Drink This (podcast)
• A Friuli-focused podcast you need to know
• A Bible For You and Me
• Learn About The Wine Category That ‘Continues To Dominate Sales’ In The New Book, Rosés Of Southern France [paywall?]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Natural Wine Is on Menus Nationwide. Is It Losing Its Cool Factor?
• Ornellaia Bianco Comes of Age
• Does Sound Affect Our Perception of Taste? These Wine Experts Think So
• Lanson playing the long game with Noble Brut Vintage 2004
• Finding Revelation in the Wines of Santorini (and other parts of Greece)

WINE PEOPLE

• Nicole Hitchcock, Head Winemaker of J Vineyards and Winery
• The Big Interview: Christelle Guibert of IWSC

WINE HISTORY

• European colonialism has had a lasting legacy on how plants are distributed around the world

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Gov. Wolf Announces $1.78 Million in Grants for Producing, Promoting Pennsylvania Beers and Wines
• Virginia Metalcrafters building in Waynesboro now home to wine manufacturer

EUROPE & THE UK

• Green light for Vineyards of Alava appellation in Rioja Alavesa

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Flood relief effort begins in Victoria, SA braces for flood impact

LATIN AMERICA

• Renaissance for Chile’s Itata Valley
• Brazil’s winemakers aiming to toast more global sales

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• U.S. Luxury Spirit Sales Slow To 22% Gain in the Second Quarter of 2022