OCTOBER 31, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Heitz Owner Gaylon Lawrence Buys Bordeaux’s Château Lascombes
• The Retail Forecast for Wine and Spirits Gift Packaging
• How South Africa Is Strengthening Social Justice Through Wine
• Update: Government Raids Largest US Wine Distributor
• Recent trends in wine drinking in the USA
• GenZ & Millennials May Be Your Best Sales Prospects Because They Are Less Concerned About Inflation.
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

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

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• California Harvest Starts Wrapping Up, With Lower Yields
• Wine grape harvests wrap up in Napa
• New Zealand wine export value hits record high
• A mixed picture for Australian wine exports

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Hundred Acre Winery Names Landon Patterson as CEO
• This church’s vineyard launched one of the top wine regions in Sonoma [paywall?]

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

CLIMATE CHANGE

• How to slow climate change’s impact on California’s wine industry

COVID-19

• Tastebuds Suck! Long Live The Olfactory Bulb

NFTs, BLOCKCHAIN, & THE METAVERSE

• Chappellet NFT From Cuvée Collective Dropping November 3rd

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Hospices de Beaune to stage ‘one of the largest offerings in History’
• Hospices de Beaune will pay tribute to the late Louis-Fabrice Latour
• Extended Report – The fine wine market in Asia-Pacific – Liv-ex
• Putting Trust in Data w/ Russ Mann, WineBid (podcast)

MARKETING & SALES

• Cross Marketing: Partnering with Like-Minded Businesses Can Boost Your Bottom Line

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• What to expect from IBWSS as bulk wine & spirits show returns to UK
• Baja California, MX to host the 43rd World Congress of Vine and Wine

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Musk and the Future of Wine Twitter
• Ashley Leonard – Founder and CEO of Innovint

WINE CRIME

• Bordeaux Fraud Case Kicks Off

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• How to Plan an Ownership Transition for Your Drinks Business

MEDIA MATTERS

• Brian Freedman, Author Of ‘Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is Altering The Way We Drink,’ Alarms Readers Yet Offers Hope [paywall?]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Sekt’s appeal: why Austrian sparkling wine is on the rise
• Ambiguity and Wine Tasting
• Five ways Alsace wine is breaking the mould

WINE PEOPLE

• A Peek Into The Central Coast Wine Business With Jason Carter
• Jennifer Reichardt, The Duck Daughter (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Ciro Biondi: Celebrating Etna’s Unique Terroir
• Three Vineyards That Brilliantly Express The McMinnville AVA Terroir
• From Santorini to the world

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Tourist Influx Raises Fears For Mexico’s Wine Heartland
• WA: Columbia Winery closing Woodinville tasting room

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Enoteca adds Domaine Alsace’s Marcel Deiss for mainland China

LATIN AMERICA

• Algodon Fine Wines Targets Brazil E-Commerce Expansion as World’s 3rd Largest Market for Online Wine Sales

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Scotch Whisky Association adds marketing rule for influencers