FEBRUARY 9, 2023 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• California Wine Grape Crush Report to be Released Tomorrow, February 10th, 2023
• Retail Players Adapt To Pricing Fluctuations, Fast-Changing Trends [paywall?]
• Beer, Spirits, & Wine – Packaged Imports Grow +9% By Value L12M through December 2022, Packaged Exports Grow +19%
• Younger people are turning away from wine. It’s caused by everyone worrying about younger people turning away from wine.
• Consumers Are Shifting Spending Toward Products With ESG-Related Claims
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• The Future of Direct-to-Consumer Wine: How AI and ChatGPT are Transforming the Industry
• The “Low And No” Trend: Momentum Continues For De-Alcoholized Drinks [paywall?]
• Are Labeling Requirements for the Alcohol Industry Misguided?
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Review of the Industry – 11,691 Wineries: U.S. Winery Growth Remains Positive
• The Uncertain Future of Island Wines
• Where Are All the Young Wine Drinkers?
• Wine consumption in Greece jumped 41.3% in 2021-2022

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Amador County wine tasting room, storehouse catches fire
• Corkage fees at Bay Area restaurants are now routinely $50 or more [paywall?]
• Pruning season underway in Sonoma County [paywall?]
• Russian River Brewing Co. releases Pliny the Younger to restaurants, bars [paywall?]
• Sebastiani family home permitted to operate as bed and breakfast [paywall?]

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• How winter’s atmospheric river storms could supercharge California’s wildfire season

WEATHER

• The Importance of Winter to Viticulture and Wine Production

DROUGHT/WATER

• California, Western Drought Status, Outlook
• California storms left behind a ‘generational snowpack.’ What that means. [paywall?]

HEALTH

• The scheme that gives alcohol to alcoholics
• How does alcohol affect sleep?

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Abandoned Farm Fields Take Decades to Recover Biodiversity—If They Can At All

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Vintage Wine Estates Announces Changes in Executive Leadership and Board Structure; Executing Business Realignment Plan to Deliver Stronger Earnings Power
• Vintage Wine Estates to Restate First Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Statements; Announces Preliminary Unaudited/Unreviewed Second Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Results
• India’s Sula posts profit jump in first earnings report since IPO [freewall?]

AGRIFOODTECH

• Agtonomy Partners With Treasury Wine Estates on Breakthrough Farming Technology for Specialty Crop Market

DISTRIBUTORS

• Champagne Boizel to release the ‘jewel’ in its crown on La Place
• Southern Glazer’s Workers Join Teamsters Local 745

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• One Step Beyond: Rewriting rules on trading & supplier contracts

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Secondary market buying habits in Asia – Liv-ex
• Fine wine market hit by January blues

DATA & TRENDS

• Wine Behaviors of Age 21-39 (PDF)

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Why do we include “suggested serving temperatures” in tech fact sheets? Anachronisms and other questionable practices in superfluity

MARKETING & SALES

• 13 Things Millennial and Gen Z Wine Pros Say Will Reach Young Drinkers
• The Marketing Place: New Zealand Wine, Altogether Unique
• How product placement works for wine in TV and movies [paywall?]

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Oregon Wine Symposium is wine education at its best
• Top wine & spirits fairs in China in 2023
• WineVit Day 2: The future is sustainable
• Annual Pa. wine conference to welcome cross-section of East Coast industry

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Social Media and Wine: A Destructive Relationship? [paywall]

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Harvest Intern?

MEDIA MATTERS

• BlueWine.com launches website dedicated to wine and spirits documentaries

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Submarine-Aged Wine: How Undersea Aging Produces Great Vino

WINE PEOPLE

• City Winery’s Michael Dorf on Conversation with Jason (video)
• Interviewing the interviewers: Mark Stock

WINE PLACES

• The Story of Cooley Ranch

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NY: Great Wines in the Shadow of the City
• Governor alleges Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission leaders abused positions for personal gain

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Surface nanoengineering technology for the removal of sulfur compounds associated with negative attributes in wines
• Investigation of the similarities between NDVI maps from different proximal and remote sensing platforms in explaining vineyard variability
• Research project looks at soil moisture dynamics in Oregon’s dry-farmed Willamette Valley.

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: NSW wineries at breaking point from decimated crops, declining tourism after floods
• OZ: Red wine takes back seat to chardonnay comeback

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China’s leading insurance company cracks down on alcohol consumption
• Japan legalises self-checkout alcohol sales

LATIN AMERICA

• VSPT Wine Group seeks new partners as it eyes travel retail expansion

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Brewers’ malt lees turned into ‘craft beer paper’