JANUARY 23, 2023 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Selling a Younger Generation on Wine
• The Bots Are Here. Time for the Wine Industry To Wake Up To Artificial Intelligence
• Trading challenges facing wine industry & how it is going to overcome them
• Global per capita wine expenditure versus consumption
• Is the Drought Over? Reflections on California’s Recent Flood-Drought Combo
• Without Chinese Labor, Napa Wouldn’t Become a Top Wine Region
• Calif Vineyard Removal Forecasts 2023 Just Below 2022
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• The California storms were great for wine
• Wine’s Decline: Poor Marketing or Something Else?
• Is There Really No Safe Amount of Alcohol?
• Bankruptcy Judge Rejects Creditor Objections, Approves Winc Sale To Stalking Horse
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• A Year of Radial Change: SVB 2023 Wine Industry Report Takeaways & Analysis
• 2022 Minervois harvest report
• Champagne exports point to quick recovery
• South Africa wine exports fall by 5% but it’s not all bad news

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• The Prisoner Wine Company Launches Prison Reform Initiative
• Napa Valley’s Favia to get new winery and home
• California’s Wente Diversifies With Innovations, Imports [paywall?]
• Anti-“pay-to-play” rules come to Napa County’s governments [paywall?]
• Scheid Family Wines Reports Third Quarter Results

WEATHER

• Lodi region wineries deal with historic flooding
• California rainstorms ‘a dream come true’ for drought-stricken vineyards [paywall?]
• California’s recent storms were historic. They could get much worse [paywall?]

DROUGHT/WATER

• The West’s snow boom could ease the water crisis, but experts worry more hot, dry weather is coming
• Why the era of big water projects passed into history [paywall?]

DIVERSITY

• Jackson Family Wines Partners with Boston’s Urban Grape on Wine Studies Award for Students of Color

HEALTH

• What’s wrong with Dry January?
• This French Hangover Cure May Surprise You
• New Research: Eating Grapes Can Protect Against UV Damage to Skin
• How Alcohol Affects Your Heart, Liver, Weight And Cancer Risk

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• These Eco-Friendly Wineries Are Built Sustainably from the Ground Up

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• EU Tells Australia Don’t Name Products Feta and Prosecco [paywall?]

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Steven Spurrier justgiving memorial fund

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• China ban on Australian wine could be lifted after Beijing agrees to trade meeting [freewall?]

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Profits at Bordeaux Index rises 48%
• Dom Pérignon 2013 released – Liv-ex

DATA & TRENDS

• ‘Better for me’ drinks and ‘borderless wine’ among top innovative trends for 2023

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• What Are the Most Common Upsells on a Wine List?

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• TCA no longer the biggest issue facing closures firms, claims Diam
• Foil to be scrapped on English sparkling wine?

MEDIA MATTERS

• Blood from a Stone—A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead

MATTERS OF TASTE

• What is saliva and how does it change the flavor of food?
• Riesling:  the Five Tool Conundrum
• What You Buy When You Buy the Classics
• Top 10 Reasons Wine Is Better Than Beer & Spirits [paywall]

WINE PEOPLE

• The Giardini Family of Villa Venti, Guardians of Romagna’s Land
• Andy Robinson – Seghesio Family Vineyards (podcast)
• Hillary Sjolund, Associate Winemaker, Aperture Cellars, Healdsburg (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• Moldova – land of horses, carts and spaceships
• Talking AVA Wines At Donnachadh Family Wines
• On the Edge of the Sea, A New Wine Region Emerges

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Ohio’s squeezing $6.7 billion of economic activity out of its wine and grape industries

EUROPE & THE UK

• Understanding the Modern German Wine Landscape
• Spanish Winery Tells Sexy Stories
• Piedmont DOCGs Set to Grow
• Chapel Down reveals record sparkling wine sales in trading update
• Should the UK follow Canada’s harsh new alcohol guidelines?
• Banfi reorganises its governance model

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Hunter Valley conduct inaugural smoking ceremony ahead of 2023 vintage