NOVEMBER 28, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• Bulk rides high as global trade in wine grows
• Spiralling costs are blowing wine buying rules ‘out of the water’
• Weighing Wine Scores against Price
• Wine business needs to reach out to new consumers as core drinkers’ ranks dwindle, expert says
• Navigating the Winery Workplace with an Invisible Disability
• Will Climate Change Make Wine Healthier – or Less Healthy?
• Wine’s Long-Dominant Drinking Demographic Is Being Devastated By Newer COVID Variants.
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

OBITUARIES

• Simon Staples – larger than life

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Thanksgiving Boosts Wine Sales At Retail
• The Great (Sticker Shock) Thanksgiving
• 2024 California Bottle Fee Includes Wine & DTC
• 2022 DTC Order Values Up So Far In Q3
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Rioja’s white exports grow, but overall market dips
• 2022 harvest puts Sogevinus ‘to the test’
• Centre-Loire vintage ‘maybe the best in 30 years’
• Freixenet expects to sell 7% more bottles this year and break new record

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• “Hot Prospect” Raeburn, Redwood Whiskey Propelling California’s Purple Brands [paywall?]
• The Cabernet Train Keeps Rolling
• Most Bay Area wineries now ban children. Here’s why [paywall?]
• Lodi: 30 Years of Rootstock Research: Liberty Vineyard Event Dec 1st
• Do French Laundry fans care what a film critic says about the restaurant?

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

DROUGHT/WATER

• Cheap, sensor-based agriculture could slash water use by up to 70%

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• The states unleashed the digital marketplace, but then they fight to resist its evolution

DIVERSITY

• Black-Owned Wine And Jazz Bar Brings Culture And Community To Grand Rapids

STARTUPS & NEW BRANDS

• Château Lafite Rothschild’s Anseillan Is Its 1st New Wine in a Century

HEALTH

• Pursuing the palate of the modern consumer: What made the acquisition of this low-sugar wine brand so tantalizing

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• The European framework law on sustainability on its way before the end of 2023
• How Perelada’s new winery is the future of winemaking as we know it
• New Ways to Future Proof Viticulture – In Conversation with Antonio Graça

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Australian winemakers lobby for Prosecco name amid EU talks

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Pernod Ricard still ‘agile’ in Europe, ME, Africa and Latin America
• ON: Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Reports Q2 2023 Financial Results
• Budweiser ‘seeks $47 million’ from FIFA after World Cup beer ban

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• OZ: Canadian Investor Buys Casella’s Vineyards
• OZ: Mornington Peninsula producer Circe acquires Stonier from Accolade Wines

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Fine Wine Power 100: Burgundy Overtakes Bordeaux, Ch. Margaux Loses Top 10 Place
• Number of wines traded surpasses 2021 record – Liv-ex
• Champagne hits new weekly trade high  – Liv-ex

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Wine to Drink in a Restaurant vs. Wine to Drink at Home: Why the Divide? [paywall?]
• The Theory and Rules of Wine Gifting
• Killing the Author of the Message is War [paywall]

MARKETING & SALES

• Breaking Down Black Friday (podcast)
• Winc CMO on Complexities of Online Wine Sales
• Beer For Dogs, Wine For Cats: How Drinks for Pets Became a Global Phenomenon

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• How do so-called alternative wine packagings compare?
• US Joins EU in Move to Nutritional Labelling for Wine

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• John Malkovich to speak at Master of Wine Symposium
• How wine2wine 2022 put wine communications centre stage
• SIMEI and WBWE Wrap Up a Very Different Year of Wine Fairs
• British producers to take centre stage at London Wine Fair 2023
• Vinexposium considering trade show for spirits
• ProWine Shanghai rescheduled for 2023

MEDIA MATTERS

• The best wine books of 2022 [paywall?]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Is Zero-Alcohol Wine, ‘Wine’? And Why Does it Matter?
• Not a match – why is sherry failing to find its groove?
• Is vintage the ultimate arbiter? [paywall?]
• The Cabernet Challenger [paywall?]
• Italy’s “Great Little” Pizza Wine

WINE PEOPLE

• A Family Wine Estate Lost While Dealing With Father’s Alzheimer’s [paywall?]
• Emme Wines an energetic spark in Sebastopol [paywall?]
• Joško Gravner and the Never-Ending Quest for Improvement
• Adam Saake Puts Amador County On A Perch
• #VinoPeople: Lehlohonolo Maphatsoe

WINE PLACES

• The Green Heart of Italy: Umbria

ACADEMIA

• German visiting scholar studies red wine quality

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Steam Is a Better Clean for Barrels, Says Winemaker Charlie Fauroat

EUROPE & THE UK

• Parts of Pouilly-Loché and Pouilly-Vinzelles set to obtain premier cru status
• New Grape Varieties for Provence
• The Growing Importance of Vintage in Cava

DOWN UNDER

• AWRI Board election results announced
• Comprehensive Australian history of wine to launch in 2023

SOUTH AFRICA

• Altering perceptions

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• The changing flavour of US craft-beer M&A