DECEMBER 5, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Premium-Plus Wine Marches On
• Bordeaux Vineyards Disappear
• By tenths, John Duarte beats Adam Gray in CA13 [paywall?]
• Outlook Hazy for Wine Industry Through the Holidays and Into 2023
• How to Use the New California Wine Industry Impact Study
• Ex-Naked Wines boss start-up worth €3million in first 18 months
• Beverage Alcohol Regulation in 2022 – A Year in Review
• Is This The End Of The Future Of Wine?
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Winc Files Chapter 11, Leaves Behind Thousands of Creditors
• Premiumisation shows first signs of slowdown in alcohol sector
• ‘Really a cause for alarm’: Wineries urged to go digital as tasting room traffic declines
• Consumers Don’t Spend A Lot Time Thinking About Wine
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• First South African crop estimate indicates smaller 2023 harvest
• OZ: ‘Champagne shortage is real’: Popular bubbly brands harder to find this Christmas

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Are the days of Sonoma County brewpubs numbered? [paywall?]
• Herbicide the Star of New Napa Movie

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

WEATHER

• Roller coaster weather for the Northwest in 2022

DROUGHT/WATER

• Extreme drought means meager portions for California water agencies

CLIMATE CHANGE

• French winegrowers are not panicking, but finding solutions to climate change

DIVERSITY

• Second annual LatinX Wine Summit takes place in Napa [paywall?]

HEALTH

• As young people in rich countries drink less alcohol, elsewhere youth drinking is on the rise (podcast)
• My name is Jim [paywall?]

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Campari, LVMH’s Moët Hennessy buy 100% of Tannico [freewall?]

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Champagne prices decline in November  – Liv-ex

DATA & TRENDS

• Wine versus beer consumption, worldwide

WINE CRIME

• Over 40,000 fake Lafite and Penfolds wines uncovered in Fujian

MEDIA MATTERS

• JancisRobinson.com launches a podcast
• The Wine Bible’s Karen MacNeil on Mansplaining and Pleasure
• Clive Pursehouse, Decanter Magazine

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Making Cabernet Sauvignon cool again
• Wine is about People and Places, Not Just Taste, Texture, and Aromas
• Krug and Ryuichi Sakamoto combine champagne and music

WINE PEOPLE

• Thomas Price is Teaching a New Generation of Sommeliers
• Seven Young Sommeliers Cross Borders To Break Boundaries [paywall?]
• Showcasing Fair Play At Conduit Wine
• “Chinga Lingo” Bobby Donnell, Winemaker, Daylight Wine & Spirits, Sonoma (video)

WINE PLACES

• Get Paid $30,000 to Move to a Town in This Italian Wine Region

WINE HISTORY

• The Little Known 1855 Wine Classification Of Burgundy [paywall?]

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• What a record-breaking Black Friday means for restaurants

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Mystery Shoppers Reveal Wine Tasting Room Trends in New York State
• Colorado Voters Support Local Liquor Stores By Rejecting Several Beverage Alcohol Initiatives

EUROPE & THE UK

• Château Montlabert promoted to Grand Cru Classé status
• CIVB boss supports Bordeaux’s vine-pull scheme ahead of vigneron protest
• New limits on Etna to control invasive investment
• D.O. Navarra: adaptation through innovation
• Shining the light on Germany’s new wave wine scene
• UK: Will there be a ‘Santa surge’ this year?

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Viticulturist Dr Samantha Scarratt is the latest expert to join the Wine Network Consulting team.

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China: Wine sales bolstered by young buyers
• India: State cabinet rejects renewal of incentive scheme for wine industry

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa: In praise of the Old Vine Project

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Why Some Producers No Longer Call Their Spirits Mezcal
• The New Vocabulary of Beer