JANUARY 18, 2023 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• US Wine Industry in a Tailspin
• 2022 An OK Year For The Wine Industry: SVB Industry Report.
• California-based Wholesaler Wine Warehouse to Join Breakthru Beverage Group
• 71% of Napa wineries plan to raise prices in 2023 [paywall?]
• The impact of AI in drinks industry
• World’s oldest person who enjoyed a glass of wine every day dies at 118
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

OBITUARIES

• Celebrating Napa Great Mike Martini

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Premiumization trends lifts super-premium, luxury wine performance
• Why Gallo and AB InBev — America’s Wine and Beer Behemoths — Are Dominating Spirits-Based RTDs Sales
• Fine Wine market beats gold as global equity and bond markets slump
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• SVB: Wine Industry Trends and Report 2023
• US: premium wine rising but big picture less rosy: SVB
• Champagne Pops Its Top

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• California wineries can’t make enough Sauvignon Blanc [paywall?]
• Modesto to discuss land swap with Gallo Winery for river walk

WEATHER

• What are the pros and cons of rain during the life of a vine? [paywall?]

DROUGHT/WATER

• Sonoma County reservoirs recovering from drought conditions in just about a month
• Water Is a Terrible Thing for California to Waste [paywall?]
• Californians approved billions for new water storage. Where is it? [paywall?]

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Commerce7 Introduces Brand New Features Designed to Streamline Wineries Day to Day Operations

HEALTH

• The history of alcohol’s social acceptance
• Canada publishes drastic new alcohol health guidelines

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Failing pot farms are killing this California town’s economy

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Napa Valley’s Chappellet to release wines via La Place de Bordeaux
• Sotheby’s remains optimistic about fine wine’s underlying stability

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Are Somms an Endangered Species? (podcast)
• Intelligent, Yet Artificial, Wine Review From Old Friends [paywall?]

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Cantina Goccia launches paper wine bottle filling station

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWein’s ‘World of Zero’ to showcase no- and low- category

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How Important is the Market in the Making of Terroir?
• Wine Cultures

WINE PEOPLE

• Terry Wheatley — Cowgirl Grit & Wine Sisterhood
• 2022 OWP Person of the Year: Janie Brooks Heuck
• Life lessons with artist Garance Vallée
• Craig Holme, national sales manager, Tonnellerie Radoux [paywall?]
• Serendipity (and soccer) lead to wine industry career [paywall?]

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Okanagan Crush Pad Marks Changes to its Business Model with A New Name, Look and Visitor Experience
• Longtime head of state wineries named Md. Secretary of Agriculture
• ‘100% preventable’: WA lawmakers thinking of lowering blood-alcohol limit
• WY: New legislation aims to tame liquor license market
• All Colorado Trader Joe’s to sell wine starting in March 2023
• Carole Viney, assistant to six presidents at Chateau Ste Michelle, retires after 45 years at the company

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Synthetic alcohol could be available within five years

EUROPE & THE UK

• Why no fame for the wines of Spain?

AROUND THE GLOBE

• How Ksara is achieving balance and consistency amidst Lebanon’s chaos