DECEMBER 19, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Vintage Wine Estates is expected to benefit from consumer downtrading trend [freewall?]
• California’s Jackson Family Wines sues insurer over $430 million in wildfire damage claims
• After A Huge Pandemic Bump, Wine.com Aims For New Heights [paywall?]
• Direct shipping and the 21st Amendment Original Intent Issue
• New ESG Regulations Will Impact Every Winery—Here’s What to Know
• Over half of US consumers have made an in-store purchase of a brand they first tried in a bar or restaurant
• Women in wine – what does that phrase actually mean?
• 2023 Looks Like It Could Be A Red Wine Year For Retailers
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

OBITUARIES

• Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America’s Former President and CEO Juanita Duggan Passes Away
• The Original And The Best: d’Arry Osborn

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Low & no growth in the fast lane to 2026
• Ciatti Report: Caution Advised
• The Wonderful Company Buys Robert Sinskey Property in Napa Valley in $26 Million Leaseback Deal
• Net Sales & Cases Sold In Most Key Channels Declined Against A Very Strong Q3 Driven By On-Site Sales (POS) Last Year
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Chablis back on track after a challenging 2021
• Italian wines suffer declines in Asia

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Bogle Family Wine Collection Welcomes New Vice President of Sales to Lead Its Growing Brand Portfolio
• Hart Winery Becomes Halter Ranch Temecula
• The legacy of Jerry Luper [paywall?]

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• OZ: North-east Victorian wine producers team up with crop farmers, CFA to protect grapes from smoke taint
• No fly pie [paywall?]
• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

DROUGHT/WATER

• California Drought: Dry conditions drop by nearly half

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Global heating helps turns icy Sweden into unique wine-making territory

DIVERSITY

• Money on tap for Black wine producers, entrepreneurs [paywall?]
• ‘Our hero forever’: Love of their late father inspires Latina sisters to launch their own wine label

AMAZON

• Amazon Is Ubiquitous. But It Isn’t Invincible Anymore. [paywall?]

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• How 2022 has treated the world’s biggest drinks companies
• Li Ka-shing’s CK Life Sciences adds to wine holdings in Australia, buying Edinger Estate vineyard for US$7.3 million

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Australian winery uses new technology to combat wine fraud

DATA & TRENDS

• Beverage alcohol’s eight drivers of change for 2023 and beyond

MARKETING & SALES

• 5 Sales Mistakes to Avoid for Wineries and Distilleries (video)

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• The wine industry needs to move into the 21st century

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Washington recruits 11 workers for 34,000 farm jobs

MEDIA MATTERS

• Book Review: Drinking With the Valkyries, by Andrew Jefford
• BottyMcBotface on the Future of Wine Writing
• That Feeling You Get When You Can See The End of Your Usefulness [paywall]

WINE PEOPLE

• An interview with David Adelsheim, Willamette Valley pioneer and founder of Adelsheim Vineyard: Part I
• Meet the maker: Dominique Demarville
• Martha Barra, Owner, Barra of Mendocino (podcast)
• Randy Meyer, Winemaker, Barra of Mendocino (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Celebrating Edna Valley White Wines At Cadre

WINE EDUCATION

• Study Tips From 3 New Masters of Wine

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• How A Restaurant In Montalcino Is A Harnessing The Local Wine Mecca To Redefining Local Cuisine [paywall?]

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Utah Buzzes Ahead
• New York liquor laws get an update

ACADEMIA

• Cal Poly opens new center for wine and viticulture

EUROPE & THE UK

• SGV qualifies ‘U-turn’ on promise to eliminate herbicides in Champagne by 2025
• Prosecco DOCG launches Green Academy and Wine Tourism lab
• Chianti Rufina Aims for Reputation Upgrade
• How Franciacorta has become the home of eco-friendly, bone dry fizz
• UK: Alcohol duty rise delayed until August
• The big boozy, British brain drain

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• American craft beer gains big success internationally