NOVEMBER 18, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• How Can Direct-to-Consumer and Three-Tier Complement One Another
• Think wine tasting fees are excessive? Try going to a Warriors game. [paywall?]
• The future for alternative packaging in wine
• This is what the wine trade really needs to worry about
• Knock-on effect of California’s drought dries up businesses in agriculture, transport, even retail
• Champagne, Bourbon Top Holiday AlcBev Gift Lists. Red Wine Also Ran.
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Retailers Flag Supply Chain, Inflation Challenges, But Remain Upbeat On Key Categories
• The Duckhorn Portfolio: The Wine Could Be Tastier Than The Stock [freewall?]
• Farmers of Color Are Suing the US Government
• Top 1% Of Income Earners Outpace All Income Groups Post-Pandemic. Bottom 50% Does OK.
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• 2022 Beaujolais Nouveau: A Banner Vintage
• Warnings of global champagne shortage over the festive season following surge in demand

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Napa Valley Vintners Continues Community Investment with $4.6 Million in Giving This November
• Napa stopped a giant Mountain Peak winery from being built. Here’s what it means [paywall?]
• Napa County hones winery code violations approach [paywall?]
• From tradition to the metaverse, Napa wine symposium showcases ideas old and new [paywall?]
• Honoring Roger Boulton and his Vision for the Future of Winemaking
• Sonoma County’s Pedroncelli makes winemaking, marketing, tasting room staff changes

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• Signorello Estate winery still rebuilding from Atlas Fire
• Gov. Newsom visits fire-scarred Napa to trumpet California’s wildfire prevention spending [paywall?]
• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

WEATHER

• After the Deluge: The Ahr Revival
• Flooding in south-east Australia set to hit wine production

DROUGHT/WATER

• Climate-Challenged California Must Learn to Thrive with Less Water

DIVERSITY

• ‘Epicurious On’: Stephanie Love is disrupting the wine industry, one chicken wing at a time (podcast)

HEALTH

• Scientists Discover New Consequences of Drinking as a Teen – And They Can Last Decades

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• New York Farms Have a Glut of Cannabis and No Retailers [paywall?]
• Weed-infused seltzer catches on

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Naked Wines: Taking An Asset-Based Approach To Valuation [freewall?]
• Beam Suntory Names Jessica Spence As President, North America [paywall?]

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Marrying wine and asset management has been a rewarding journey, says CEO
• Weekly trade rises across all fine wine regions except Burgundy – Liv-ex

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Top 100 Wine Lists Don’t Age Well [paywall]

WINE PEOPLE

• Unfiltered: Sergio Dos Santos
• Meeting Mr Chenin: the wines of Ken Forrester, who has helped make South African Chenin Blanc famous
• Spanish-Californian Wine Pioneer Marimar Torres: ‘I Make Wines I Like To Drink’ [paywall?]

WINE PLACES

• Markham looks to the future
• How Quintessa Is Using Architecture to Make Better Wine

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Washington State Grape Society holds annual meeting to share research findings, crop updates, and recognize industry members
• Walla Walla winemaker to launch new distillery in Spokane
• OR: Coleman Agriculture to begin growing winegrapes [paywall?]

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• John Deere Revs up Its Stable of Orchard and Vineyard Tractors [Videos]

EUROPE & THE UK

• Scotland alcohol advertising plan met with dismay
• UK: Has the Chancellor’s autumn statement left the industry reeling?

DOWN UNDER

• How The Real Review Wine Classification was developed and differs

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Kataro Wine continues Artsakh’s winemaking tradition
• After 7,000 years, Turkish wines are hitting the big time