OCTOBER 28, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• IRS & TTB Agents Descend On Southern/Glazers San Francisco-Area Office [paywall?]
• The big spending squeeze – are your brands ready?
• Green in a Sea of Red: Winery Sales Are a Continuing Safe Haven in Rough Waters
• Rabbit Ridge Owner Northern Holding to Answer Civll Court Contempt Allegations
• Pricier in Pink: the Fight to Charge More for Rosé
• Ukraine becomes the 49th OIV Member State
• 42% Of People Plan To Spend Less On Holiday AlcBevs; Only 10% To Buy More.
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Alcohol beverage industry facing “unprecedented” challenges but remains resilient
• Why alcohol companies should embrace cannabis or get left behind
• Canadian winery owner jailed in China claims innocence and inhuman treatment
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Napa Valley’s 2022 Harvest – Events that Defined the Season
• Portugal – Growing Exports
• Spanish Wine Harvest 2022 – Regional Differences

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• Napa Valley Vintners fundraising begins for reforestation and wildfire resiliency [paywall?]
• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

DROUGHT/WATER

• Calif: Board to hear updates on drought, groundwater

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Climate Change Makes for Slim Pickings

UKRAINE WINE

• Letters from Kyiv

DIVERSITY

• Black South Africans break into once white-only wine industry

HEALTH

• ‘I take it with a pinch of salt’: why women question health warnings linking alcohol with breast cancer

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• CBD Wine Beverage Ramp-up Getting Closer for Health Advance
• Calif: Lighter cannabis harvest is expected as growers await price recovery [paywall?]
• Canopy Growth speeds up entry to U.S. cannabis market instead of waiting for federal ban to be lifted [paywall?]

AMAZON

• Amazon is becoming an advertising juggernaut

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Ninth Circuit Rules Time Booting Up Computer Before Clocking In Is Compensable

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Scientists Hope UV Imprinting Prevents Wine Adulteration
• Mouton Rothschild 2000 leads weekly trade – Liv-ex

DATA & TRENDS

• Regional Wine Associations: A Useful Data Source for the Wine Industry

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Stuck in a Wine Rut? You’re Certainly Not Alone.

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• OZ: New glass manufacturing facility to produce 1 billion bottles annually

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWine Shanghai Postponed by Two Weeks

WINE CRIME

• 5m bottles of Spanish wine disguised as French in Bordeaux fraud

MEDIA MATTERS

• New Book Details How Climate Change Will Alter How Wines Are Made Worldwide. . . Sooner Than Later [paywall?]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Has non-alcoholic wine finally got good?
• Devil’s Advocate – Value or Price?
• Ventoux whites look to climb new heights
• Silvaner’s Moment Is Now
• Cloudy Bay shows that Sauvignon Blanc can age with style
• Buttafuoco may be an obscure wine, but it is a wonderful red blend worth the search
• ‘Rare’ Champagne Wine Producer Displaying Its Environmental Commitment Through Art [paywall?]

WINE PEOPLE

• Winemaker Stephen Singer bucks the trend [paywall?]
• Julian Gout, the ’new-generation’ cellar master joining Champagnes Ayala

WINE EDUCATION

• Wine in Moderation Association joins as The Institute of Masters of Wine’s second research and industry associate

ACADEMIA

• The future tastes sweet for recent wine and viticulture grads from Lake Michigan College

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• The 4 Keys To Nurturing Soil Biology: Protect, House, Feed, and Recruit
• The Role of Nematodes in Soil Health (podcast)

EUROPE & THE UK

• Once Underrated, Spain’s Jumilla Wine Region Steps into the Spotlight
• To make wine in Ireland, you have to be a little bit crazy

DOWN UNDER

• Federal Government signals support for Australian prosecco

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China’s exports of wine and spirits to North Korea surge

LATIN AMERICA

• Ricardo Baettig on how Viña Morandé is taking Chilean wine to a new level

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Exploring the rich tradition of winemaking in Azerbaijan

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Wine and architecture have been creating harmony together over eons

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Gold proof: using ions to analyse whisky
• Beer Label Fundamentals
• US beer will continue to “reinvent itself”, Anheuser-Busch InBev predicts