DECEMBER 6, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Moderation driven by economic concerns not health consciousness
• Napa Valley boutique winery Seven Stones sells for $34 million
• Solano County winemakers’ pitch for new grape pricing advances
• Suppliers and retailers prepare for the 2022 winter holiday season
• 2022 Year In Review: M&A Market Remains Active in 2022 in California and Pacific Northwest
• Wineries Are Banning Kids. Does That Make Sense? (podcast)
• GenZ & 6 Other Trends To Watch In 2023
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Premium-Plus Wine Marches On
• Bordeaux Vineyards Disappear
• By tenths, John Duarte beats Adam Gray in CA13 [paywall?]
• Is This The End Of The Future Of Wine?
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma County stalls winery ordinance update again
• Why Lodi is a verdant paradise for grapes, not a parched Central Valley Desert

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

DROUGHT/WATER

• These Imperial Valley Farmers Want to Pay More for Their Colorado River Water

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Wine forecast: Britain could be Chardonnay champions by 2050
• An Abruzzo Winemaker’s Climate-Change Story Includes Burgundy [paywall?]

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Is Delaware DtC Wine Shipping Right Around the Corner?

UKRAINE WINE

• Dima Deneiga Launches Cocktail Book for Ukraine

COVID-19

• Most are rejected, but Sonoma County COVID business damage case continues

DIVERSITY

• Distill Ventures backs diverse entrepreneurs with drinks brand funding
• Black-Owned McBride Sisters Winery Aims to Help Women in Liquor Business [paywall?]
• Diversifying Wine Country: Sonoma business owner works to bridge LGBTQ+ community, Black-owned businesses [paywall?]

HEALTH

• Abstaining from drinking alcohol can actually increase dementia risks
• Nearly 3/4 of UK adults underestimate amount of wine in a 250ml glass

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Young cannabis users drinking less alcohol

AMAZON

• Amazon brings its Just Walk Out technology to 1st outside grocer

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Champagne’s Backtrack to a Greenwashed Future

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Proposition 125 Passes in Colorado
• May ‘Bad Spaniels’ Mock Jack Daniel’s? The Supreme Court Will Decide [paywall?]

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• OR: Lenné Estate in Yamhill sells in unique transaction
• Warakirri buys two vineyards from Australian Vintage Limited

DISTRIBUTORS

• Breakthru Promotes Roberts, Burzynski To Key Roles As Sobel Retires

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Mouton auction nets €175,000 for Bordeaux firefighters
• Bordeaux plunges to record low in Liv-ex Power 100 ranking

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Inside the Nightclubs Pouring Natural Wine for the Club Kids

IT: INFORMATION [AND] TECHNOLOGY

• What We Need to Know About Web 3.0 (podcast)

WINE PEOPLE

• Q&A: Viticulture & Enology Department founding chair Jean Dodson Peterson
• Steve Autry, Autry Cellars, Edna Valley, San Luis Obispo (podcast)

WINE EDUCATION

• Casa Tua wine director named youngest master sommelier

WINE HISTORY

• A toast to the misunderstood temperance movement on the anniversary of its demise
• How sacred wine helped California’s vineyards during Prohibition

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• TN: New law limits retailers options for case discounts on wine and spirits
• NY: Schumer meets with Finger Lakes wine leaders to talk economic impact, legislative priorities

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Grapes Have Special Weed Problems
• After two turbulent years, global fertiliser markets may start to settle in 2023

EUROPE & THE UK

• Where? What? Why? Interrogating Lugana DOC
• Bordeaux: Dourthe president Patrick Jestin to retire
• Vinokelly Drinks Recruitment produces salary survey for UK wine industry

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Generational change at Pikes Wines