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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Covid Online Wine Boom On The Wane
• The Real Threat to Wine Sales is Being Ignored
• Millennial comfort with leisure activities dropping after COVID surge
• Without Federal Protections, Farm Workers Risk Coronavirus Infection To Harvest Crops
• Thailand seizes 980 cases of smuggled wines including top Napa reds
• Streamlining a Large Custom Crush Operation for Clients and Cellar Staff (Sponsored)

• Predicting the COVID-19 Behavioral Reset – Nielsen
• Ruby Grapes sues Intercoastal Wine charging criminal pandemic profiteering.
• Gallo PR tries to distance winery and Gallo Cattle Co., but no proof available.
• At least 244 California wineries and vineyards received between $145 & $328 million from Paycheck Protection Program

• Small Wineries With Inventory Problems May Have An Escape Hatch
• End of August harvest for Alsace
• How To Really Send Your Samples To Prospective Distributors and Importers (Sponsored)

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• How To Build Your Online Presence To Drive Your Delivery & Curbside Sales? (Sponsored)

• A warmer second half of August, and some tropical moisture in the mix? Plus: thoughts about (a dry?) autumn.
• Expect More Rainfall Variability for California
• Predicting drought in the American West just got much more difficult

• Agriculture replaces fossil fuels as largest human source of sulfur to the environment
• Introducing Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC): Farming Like the World Depends on It

• Direct-To-Consumer Wine Shipments On The Rise During Covid
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• North Fork, NY Dream Home: A converted barn with your very own winery

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• Vinous Live! with Renzo Cotarella (Antinori/Solaia) (video)
• Collette Whittington-Bowers: Back to Business Q&A

• This Beachy Sliver of Sonoma Is Becoming One of America’s Most Important New Wine Regions

• Walla Walla Confronts Phylloxera

• Mealybug biocontrol video premiere 8/13

• France Will Spend Nearly $300 Million to Save Its Wine Industry

• Pressure mounts on South African government to allow booze sales
• Spirits industry urges South Africa to lift alcohol ban

• Why Lebanon, its people & its wines deserve our help

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TODAY'S  FEATURED WINE

Michael David Winery, 2018 Lodi Petite Sirah: Intense black cherry fruit with hints of vanilla & cedar, balanced by gnarly tannins with a smooth mouthfeel & exceptional balance.  

  After reading our Wine of the Day post on spoiled wine -- A heat-damaged Safeway trifecta -- Michael David Winery stepped up to the plate and replaced the wine we had bought.   They did not need to do this, but they clearly cared about the diminished quality of their wine at the hands of either the shipper or Sonoma Safeway.   The other two wineries clearly didn't. We had paid $$26.98 per bottle for two bottles. -- LP

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