FEBRUARY 10, 2023 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Punchdown! New Online Community Gives Wine Professionals Resources Designed Just For Them
• Spirits Outstrip Beer, Wine a Distant Third and Fading Fast for US Drinkers
• Vintage Wine Estates shares tumble as CEO hunt continues
• What if the Doctors Didn’t Have an ‘Anti-Alcohol Agenda’?
• What’s Going on with TTB Rulemaking for Wineries?
• Calif. Crush Was Up Slightly in Last’s Year’s Report. Keep Your Eyes On this When You Look At Today’s Report.
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

2022 NASS CRUSH REPORT

• 2022 California Preliminary Crush Report – To Be Published After Data Release At Noon (PDT)
• California Wine Grape Crush Report to be Released TODAY, February 10th, 2023, at NOON PDT

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• 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.
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• 2020 in Bottle: Bordeaux vintage overview
• OZ: Slowly But Surely, V23 Creeps Closer

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Vintage Wine Estates changes CEO, rolls out plan to improve profitability
• The Future of Agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley
• How Carmenère is finding a new home in Napa
• California faces threat of back-to-back mega-quakes [paywall?]
• Napa Valley winery Trefethen promotes Kenny to marketing exec
• Napa’s The Mill Keeper names new winemaker
• Public transit from SF to wine country is becoming a reality

WEATHER

• As Temps Soar, State AGs Urge OSHA to Implement Heat Protections for Worker Safety

DIVERSITY

• Former Blazer turned winemaker hosts Oregon fundraiser benefiting more diversity in wine industry

HEALTH

• Link between alcohol consumption and chronic disease: leading food scientist recommends ‘Mediterranean-style’ approach to wine
• Harmful effects of long-term alcohol use documented in blood protein snapshot

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Cannabis and wine: The terroir and aesthetics of weed

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• How Sustainable Winegrowing Australia is now key to growth
• Prue Henschke on why you should be drinking sustainable wine
• Cote du Rhone sustainability researches and plans with Julie Coutton & Institut Rhodanien (podcast)

RECYCLED WASTEWATER

• In times of scarcity, California’s best new source of water? Reuse.

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Olive Garden accused of boxed wine dupe
• IRS introduces new service industry tip reporting program
• Sardinian winemaker denies his two oxen logo is Red Bull copy

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Naked Wines investors are sitting on a loss of 73% if they invested a year ago
• Naked Wines Stock: A No For Now

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Online Bidding for Premiere Napa Valley Now Open Through Sotheby’s
• What the Future Holds for the Fine Wine Secondary Market: In Conversation with James Miles and Justin Gibbs

MARKETING & SALES

• A View From the End Zone: E. & J. Gallo’s NFL Wine Victory

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Recent Advances in Viticulture & Enology (RAVE): UC Davis
• More Diversity and the Search For More Profits — Inside Barcelona Wine Week 2023

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Why Talent Development Is Your Responsibility

MEDIA MATTERS

• How to Get Your Story Into the US Wine Media

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wine and The City
• Looking beneath the surface [paywall?]
• More on Sauvignon Blanc, Part 2 [paywall?]

WINE PEOPLE

• John Skupny & Reed Skupny, Lang & Reed, Napa Valley (podcast)
• That Wine You Can’t Get Enough Of? These Guys Probably Discovered It [paywall?]

WINE PLACES

• Greece: Island Odyssey

WINE HISTORY

• The Historic Riots That Defined the Champagne Region
• God of Wine: Dionysus on Ancient Coins

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• How the new generation of AI will impact the restaurant industry

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Oregon Liquor Officials Are Accused of Hoarding Rare Bourbon [paywall?]
• WA: Will Beightol named vineyard manager at Aquilini Wines

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Supramolecular Study of the Interactions between Malvidin-3-O-Glucoside and Wine Phenolic Compounds: Influence on Color
• Effects of Yeast Strain and Juice Nitrogen Status on Glutathione Utilisation during Fermentation of Model Media

EUROPE & THE UK

• Ireland’s Plan for Alcohol Labels Reaches the WTO
• French Government Pledges Support for Wine
• French court ruling cracks down on influencers promoting booze

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• At $37.6 Billion, Spirits Sales Surpass Beer in 2022 as Whiskey Overtakes Vodka on Volume
• Spirits Rebound On-Premise, Still Down 5% Compared With Pre-Pandemic [paywall?]