JANUARY 29, 2019 – WINE NEWS FETCH

TOP NEWS

• PG&E bankruptcy: What does that mean + Court Filings
• Chris Bilbro, Founder of Sonoma’s Marietta Cellars and Father to Three Winemakers, Dies at 72
• The Three Horsemen of the Grapepocalypse, Part 2: The Coming Recession
• Shanken News Daily Launches Weekly Cannabis Edition
• Top tips to aspiring young winemakers from Chris Thomas of Dowie Doole. Click now to learn more! *Sponsored Link*

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Way too many people are still believing these tech myths (Are you one of them?)
• How To Sell Wine Into Restaurants Effectively*Sponsored Link*

CHANGES, CHANGES

• Elin McCoy: Seven Ways Wine Will Change in 2019
• Supply Chain: Trade Wars, Tech and Climate Change: Seven Ways Wine Will Evolve in 2019

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• California wine: Do we have a supply problem or do we actually have a demand problem?
• SA wine exports increase despite drought
• Ciatti – California-Report-January-2019

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Send an Instagram, lose your license – Calif fixes this for events
• Napa Valley’s Next Steps Remain Divisive
• Will he shutdown delay the 2019 Calif Crush Report?
  
• Inside the Growing Role of Social Media Influencers in the Wine Industry *Sponsored Link*

PG&E

• Why PG&E’s (PCG) Bankruptcy Could Change Climate Calculus
• PG&E to Tap Restructuring Chief in Final Bankruptcy Preparations

WILDFIRES

• California wildfires cost: $12.4 billion in insured losses
• North Bay housing projects compete with rebuilds as construction season nears

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• LA Property Owners That Lease To Unlicensed Cannabis Businesses May Soon Pay fines of $24K/day
• California lawmakers want to jump-start sluggish legal pot industry with tax cuts

AMAZON

• Has Amazon Really Changed Whole Foods’ Image?
• Could This Technology Make Amazon Go Stores Obsolete?

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Free delivery, Dry January, booze moderation

OFFBEAT

• Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Wine Cellars in Nile Delta

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• US shutdown subtracted $11 bn from GDP: congressional report

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• No deal, no problem – Wetherspoon pubs boss raises a glass to Brexit
• UK parliament will get second chance to vote on May’s Brexit deal

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Sotheby’s to Offer Record $26 Million Wine Collection
• What were the top 10 coolest Naples wine fest auction lots?
• Why you should buy some 2016 Bordeaux wine now

DATA & TRENDS

• Wine Trends In California Wine Country

HEALTH

• Drinking wine better than exercise if you want to live a long life, study finds

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Oddbins prepares to appoint administrators
• Washington Wine Grape Growers Ask for Changes to Quarantine and Certification
• Walsh Whiskey and Illva Saronno split after dispute

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Behind the Bottle with South American Sommeliers

MARKETING & SALES

• On Unsustainable Wine Prices – Then and Now
• How To Sell Wine Into Restaurants Effectively *Sponsored Link*

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Vinventions to launch circular wine closure recycling initiative
• Glass bottle shortage is set to push up the price of wine, report warns

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• London Wine Fair to charge some visitors for first time

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Instagram outage forces millions to look directly at the world for nearly half an hour

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Winery owned by Trump’s son trying to hire 23 foreign guest workers

MEDIA MATTERS

• Shanken News Daily Launches Weekly Cannabis Edition

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Mirror Napa Valley Owned by Former NFL QB
• For St. Valentine’s Day, A Good Sparkling Wine Need Not Be A Pricey Champagne
• Guide to Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc: the wine mecca of New Zealand

ACADEMIA

• Education Matters: Fresno State students getting hands-on experience making wine
• Wine exploration the subject of Columbia College community class

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Greg Jones on Climate Change and Wine
• Clean-Power Beer Takes Tuscany by Storm, and California Is Next

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Non-profit research group tries to bridge the wine industry gap between discovery & application

CRAFT BEVERAGES: BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Beer Shipments Are Down Again, Even While Breweries are Booming
• AB InBev creates partnership to develop more sustainable barley varieties
• Mexican students transform tequila by-product into fiber-packed functional flour