NOVEMBER 11, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Tuck Beckstoffer ordered to refund $5 Mil to winery for personal expenses [paywall?]
• E. & J. Gallo Acquires Denner Vineyards in Paso Robles
• Sands Brothers To Relinquish Constellation Exec Roles[paywall?]
• What Will The Holiday Season Be Like For Wine and Spirits?
• Hybrids: Finding a Place
• Food & beverages have the most to gain from prioritizing sustainability.
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

OBITUARIES

• Allen Shoup, Pioneer of Washington Wines, Dies at 79

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Here’s what Americans were drinking on election night
• O’Neil Vintners & Distillers Acquires Wellness Category Leader, FitVine Wine
• Vintage Wine Estates Net Revenue Grew 40% to $77.9 Million in First Quarter Fiscal 2023
• Oddly Enough, Gen Z is Least Concerned About Data Privacy
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• World Wine Trade Group of Global Government and Wine Industry Delegates Meet in Sonoma
• Calif: Updates on 2022 GRBV Classic Foundation Vineyard testing
• Trained For “Saving Lives”: Of 450 Free AEDs, Only 141 Remain. 309 Have Been Placed
• Kitchen Memories at Napa Valley’s Elizabeth Spencer Winery [paywall?]

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• Sonoma County vintner offers farmworkers ‘hazard pay’ during smoky days
• Cal Fire lifts burn permit suspension in Napa County [paywall?]
• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

COVID-19

• ProWine Shanghai Postponed Indefinitely

DIVERSITY

• Queer Wino’s William Ferguson on a mission to queer wine

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Sonoma County’s Biodiversity

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Federal Register: Consideration of Updates to Trade Practice Regulations

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Investors Kill Supervoting Stock for a High Cost
• Vintage Wine Estates, Inc. (VWE) Misses Q1 Earnings Estimates
• Corby Spirit and Wine Limited reports its fiscal 2023 first quarter results for the period ended September 30, 2022 and announces dividend of $0.22 per share

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Whisky is a better investment than wine
• Rare Domaine Ponsot wine auction tops £1m in sales
• Burgundy’s weekly trade share hits new high

MEDIA MATTERS

• Danielle Wilde joins Napa Valley Register as wine industry reporter [paywall?]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Was the 1970s the Greatest Decade in the History of Wine?
• The Wine World’s Haves and Have-Nots
• The new wave of amphora is cocciopesto
• Homage to the Obscure [paywall?]

WINE PEOPLE

• Veterans Blending Post-Military Identity With a Passion for Wine
• “Holy Shit Wine” Larry Laurello, Co-Owner & Winemaker, Laurello Vineyards, Harpersfield, Ohio (video)
• From bank to biological sciences a natural transition for Vaughn
• Meet the maker: Martha Dalton

WINE HISTORY

• Charles Heidsieck: Who was the real ‘Champagne Charlie’?

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Government of Canada invests in wine industry
• CO: Proposition 125 is still too close to call
• Stink bug increase threatens Oregon crops

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Are my bubbles shrinking? A deeper look at oxygen desorption in wine
• Reducing oxidability and achieving olfactory cleanness in wines (videos)
• Research captures the impacts of vineyard floor management

EUROPE & THE UK

• Investment In Mountain Vineyards Pays Off For A Wine Producer In Southern France [paywall?]
• UK: As alcohol lags behind on-trade recovery, where does the trade go from here?

DOWN UNDER

• Management plan for Grapevine leafroll disease and Shiraz disease on the horizon for Aussie growers
• OZ: Standard for grapevine propagation material a step closer
• OZ: WithWine launches in Adelaide