MARCH 10, 2023 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Silicon Valley Bank Crisis Sparks Stock Market Chaos
• Duckhorn Targeting Full-Year Sales Of $400 Million [paywall?]
• How The Wine Industry Aims To Make Wine Lovers Out Of Gen X, Z And Millennials
• Need another incentive to move to lightweight glass? How about $2.2 million over 14 years?
• Concerns raised over sexism in Michelin Guide 2023
• Women Drive More Than Half Of DTC Wine Sales Outside Of The West
• Quietly for sale; In-Demand Vineyard in Paso’s “Hot Spot” – Sponsored Link

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• California Wine Country’s race to build wine palaces
• Without retirement options, many undocumented farmworkers keep working into old age
• The Impact of AI on Wine Writing: Will it Be as Big as We Think?

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Ciatti California Report March 2023 (PDF)
• Germany: Imports Fall
• 10% of Bordeaux’s Vineyard Area to be Uprooted
• Rhône Valley 2022 harvest: a slow return to normality?

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Winery Events Ordinance Public Hearing March 14
• Wine Country workers unionizing over housing woes [paywall?]
• Green Valley winery DuMol expands with acquisition of nearby Dr. Galante Estate

WEATHER

• Gov. Newsom puts most of California in emergency as atmospheric river storm arrives
• Excessive Heat at the Heart of Farmers’ Almanac Summer 2023 Forecast

DROUGHT/WATER

• Order Modifying an Order that Approved a Temporary Urgency Change Petition Filed by the California DWR and Reclamation
• We have seen the future of water in California

CLIMATE CHANGE

• University of California receives $1m for climate-smart program
• Dry farming could help agriculture in the western U.S. amid climate change

UKRAINE WINE

• Ukraine’s defiant winemakers look to EU and exports
• Ukrainian Wines Return to ProWein in Force
• Russia’s aggression has changed the world of wine [paywall?]

DIVERSITY

• Women of the Vine & Spirits Continues Sexual Harassment and Bystander Training Supported by WSWA, DISCUS
• Scholarship promotes the next generation of female leaders in the Australian organic wine industry

HEALTH

• Young People in UK Don’t Drink Alcohol Because It’s ‘Cool Now’

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Kosta Browne buoys Q2 sales growth Napa Valley’s Duckhorn
• Fresh Vine Wine estimates $3.14M in rights offering subscriptions [freewall?]

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Hard-to-Find Napa Valley Wines Available Now Through Collective Napa Valley
• Bordeaux’s trade share pulls back after strong start to month – Liv-ex
• iDealwine update: Organics make their mark at auction

DATA & TRENDS

• How To Tell If A Survey Is Credible: Minimum Standards

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Want to Spot a Value Wine? Channel Your Inner Warren Buffett [paywall?]

MARKETING & SALES

• When I Started Putting Together a Wine Club, I Had No Idea What the Best Aspect of It Would Become

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• After ProWein: Insider Tips for Going Out
• New, compact format for London Wine Fair
• ProWine Shanghai 2023 eagerly anticipated
• Gearing up for Vinitaly 2023

MEDIA MATTERS

• The Future of Digital Communication: In Conversation with Polly Hammond

MATTERS OF TASTE

• How Gonzague Lurton is re-inventing Bordeaux at Château Durfort-Vivens
• What makes Sangiovese special?

WINE PEOPLE

• The Man Who Saved Cartier Is Now Saving An Ancient Wine Estate
• MJ Towler on Conversation with Jason (video)
• A Conversation with Sonal Holland MW

WINE PLACES

• Is Bulgaria the next “new” wine region on the horizon? [paywall?]

WINE HISTORY

• Taming the Grapevine

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Companies claim billionaire developer isn’t paying up for changes to Missouri Wine Country
• OR: Pfeiffer Winery set to close May 1

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• What’s in Your Wine? Costing Tips for Better Accounting

EUROPE & THE UK

• Cracking the Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish Wine Markets: Insider Tips
• Emotional and functional conceptualisations for beer, wine and non-alcoholic beer consumption in the Netherlands and in Portugal

DOWN UNDER

• Can Marlborough survive the next 50 years?

LATIN AMERICA

• Chile winemaker Concha y Toro heads further upmarket, helped by a French château

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• 45 Million Americans Shop While Drunk, According to New Report

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• DISCUS: U.S. Spirit Exports Hit Record-Breaking $2.06 Billion in 2022
• Surprise Testimony Shows Nevada Wholesale Beer Industry on Verge of Collapse [paywall]