DECEMBER 20, 2022 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Why Drizly Predicts Prosecco Will Out-Sell Champagne For NYE 2022
• Top Wholesalers Weigh In On Holiday Conditions [paywall?]
• Vintage Wine Estates Monetizes Assets and Successfully Refinances Debt
• Exploring the Sparkling Wine Stranglehold of Prosecco and Champagne (podcast)
• Let’s Face It: Glass is Terrible for the Environment
• Judges mull whether science or court drove pesticide ban [paywall?]
• Artificial Intelligence Rates Wine. Should Critics Worry?
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

OBITUARIES

• Remembering d’Arry Osborn, a South Australian Wine Legend

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• 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?]
• 2023 Looks Like It Could Be A Red Wine Year For Retailers
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• New Zealand wine exports reach new high

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Santa Barbara Wine Auction Raises $815,000
• Napa and Sonoma Wine Country has gotten too expensive [paywall?]
• Sonoma County mountain cab looks for its own spotlight outside of Napa County’s shadow
• Spirits Alley in Alameda may be in a state of disrepair [paywall?]
• Davis Estates Announces Promotion of Walter Leiva to Winemaker

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• California Fire Map
• Oregon Wildfire Tracker

DROUGHT/WATER

• Calif: Army Corps releases draft EIS for Delta Conveyance Project

HEALTH

• Farmworkers at risk for obesity, high blood pressure, say UC researchers

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• A look back at 2022’s Increasing Consumer Preferences for Natural, Organic, or Sustainably Grown Wines
• Organic: fad or the future?
• Marking four decades of game changing sustainability at Crittenden Estate

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Australian exporters ‘back on the radar’ in China as tensions ease [freewall?]

BREXIT

• Wine merchant blasts Jacob Rees Mogg over Brexit red tape

DISTRIBUTORS

• Breakthru Beverage Expands Non-Alcoholic Portfolio Through National Partnership with Lyre’s

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Fintech Vint hopes to turn wine and spirits into a mainstream asset class

DATA & TRENDS

• Christmas Surprises in Store for Wine Lovers
• Latest Trends in Mixology and Wine

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• British Airways appoints full-time Master of Wine to elevate premium experience

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Swiss wine – not just for skiers
• 2020 Bordeaux in bottle: wines of ‘quiet power’
• A love letter to the wine slushie

WINE PLACES

• How Horses In The Vineyard Help Create World-Class Wines At Cayuse [paywall?]

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• State Finds NYC’s Foie Gras Ban Violates Farmers’ Rights [paywall?]

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Clarion Is Newest Cold-Hardy Wine Grape from UMN
• What You Need To Know About Pruning Canes on Your Raisin Grapes

EUROPE & THE UK

• Welsh wine industry sets out 12-year plan
• More than a third of Brits plan to avoid alcohol this Christmas

AROUND THE GLOBE

• The winemaking tradition of Azerbaijan

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Premium Spirits Market Boomed, Driven Bars and Restaurant Sales Growth
• 2023 outlook – prospects for unaged spirits remain positive