JANUARY 20, 2023 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• The California storms were great for wine
• Wine’s Decline: Poor Marketing or Something Else?
• Is There Really No Safe Amount of Alcohol?
• Restaurant sales and traffic declined in December
• Premium Winery Sales Growth Dives, Pre-Tax Profits Decline in 2022 over 2021
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

OBITUARIES

• Celebrating Steven Spurrier

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Bankruptcy Judge Rejects Creditor Objections, Approves Winc Sale To Stalking Horse
• Wine Sales Are Declining Among Young People
• This is the ‘sweet spot’ people are now willing to pay for a bottle of wine
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Ciatti Report: Demand for Bulk Wine Is Dragging
• Champagne Says its Prayers

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Rebottling Expert Vinovae Expands Operations to the U.S.A. With New Production Facility in California
• The Petaluma Gap Celebrates Five Years as an American Viticultural Area and Toasts the Successes of the Alliance & Its Members
• Mondavi moving tasting room temporarily to downtown Napa [paywall?]
• Is this California wine region the new Napa? Its vintners hope not. [freewall?]
• Ellman winery revamp wins Napa County approval [paywall?]

WEATHER

• Relentless California atmospheric rivers drop 32 trillion gallons of water over 3 weeks
• Saved by a rainy day? Californians ‘harvest’ water during historic storms

DROUGHT/WATER

• Despite Rain Storms, California Is Still in Drought [paywall?]

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Bourbon, Biodiversity, and the Quest to Save America’s Oak Forests

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Institutional owners may take dramatic actions as Naked Wines plc’s (LON:WINE) recent 12% drop adds to one-year losses

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• China and Australia Agree to Virtual Meeting for Trade Talks [paywall?]

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• USA’s trade share surpasses Champagne’s year-to-date – Liv-ex
• Are You Storing Your Wine Properly? Here’s What It Can Cost—and Save—You [paywall?]

DATA & TRENDS

• 2023 wine predictions: Higher prices, new zero-alcohol options and more [paywall?]

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• What’s in a Wine Glass? For Many Restaurants, It’s Everything
• Discover the personalities of Napa Valley wine shops [paywall?]

MARKETING & SALES

• How Do You Sell Wine Successfully?
• 5 Ways to Tell If Your Salespeople Are Not Working

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Foil to be scrapped on English sparkling wine?

WINE PEOPLE

• From Argentina to Washington with Malbec for Juan Muñoz-Oca

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Bad omen? Americans ate out less over the holiday season [paywall?]

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Push to sell wine in CT grocery stores continues

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Agrology and Process2Wine Announce Strategic Partnership to Integrate Ground-Truth Data into the Vineyard Management Process, Empowering Growers to Take Action When Needed
• USDA Climate Smart Ag Grant Funds Five Year, $2 Million Soil Carbon Inventory Project for Fine Wine Producers

EUROPE & THE UK

• Bollinger announces team restructure to support Bicentenary plans

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: New Winemaker For Stanton & Killeen

LATIN AMERICA

• Argentina Is a World Champion in Soccer. In Wine, Not So Much

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa wine exports fall by 5% but it’s not all bad news

AROUND THE GLOBE

• The Bordeaux Business Opening Doors to the Nigerian Wine Market
• New Wine-Producing Facility to be Constructed in Rwanda

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• A Proposed Ohio Law Legalizes Home Distilling (But There’s a Big Catch)