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DAILY NEWS FETCH - August 25, 2020

CREATED BY WINE INDUSTRY INSIGHT   & MADE POSSIBLE BY OUR SPONSORS

Publisher/Executive Editor, Lewis Perdue -- Editor, Becca Yeamans-Irwin

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

After Weeks of Growth, Millennials' Comfort Level With Many Leisure Activities Drops. Daily Data has 9 detailed charts. Scroll down.
 

• Cautious Optimism on Wine Country Fires
• Jackson Family Wines Buys Australia's Giant Steps Winery
• Wine Economist Guide to Wine, Coronavirus Crisis & K-Shaped Recovery
• Two wineries damaged by latest Cali wildfires
• Media Update on Retailer Wine Shipping From The National Association of Wine Retailers
• After Weeks of Growth, Millennials’ Comfort Level With Many Leisure Activities Drops
• Power shut-offs are in your future. Keep crush moving. Click to reserve your generator NOW! (Sponsored)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Napa, North Bay growers face a softened, fluid market for premium grapes
• Mabray beats back defamation lawsuit by Philip James, strengthens fair commentary protections
• Harvard-controlled LLC in $120+ million deal with anonymous LLC connected with Canadian pension fund.
• Ruby Grapes sues Intercoastal Wine charging criminal pandemic profiteering.
• Streamlining a Large Custom Crush Operation for Clients and Cellar Staff (Sponsored)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Big California wildfires burn on as death toll reaches 7
• History-making California blazes — worst likely yet to come
• Trump declares Northern California wildfires a major disaster
• Firefighters in Northern California get a weather break

 

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DIVERSITY

• Harlem’s Karl Franz Williams on Making the Industry More Inclusive
• Here’s What I’ve Learned as a Woman Winery Owner

HEALTH

• Stable Per Capita Beverage Alcohol Consumption Over Past 30 Years

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

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

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Briefing in Challenge to CA Licensing Requirements Due to 9th Circuit by September 18, 2020
• US Chamber of Commerce Files in Support of Wal-Mart’s Cert Petition for Public Ownership of Liquor Store Challenge in Texas

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• DTC shippers face new tax compliance challenges thanks to economic nexus laws
• What Would You Ask the Enemies of Wine Shipping?
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Italian wines: historic levels of growth
• FL: Destin Charity Wine Auction brings in $1.35 million for local non profits
• Zachys to host first London sale
• Sotheby’s to hold its largest online spirits sale yet

 

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WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Rebuilding Your Restaurant’s Wine Program
• Time to introduce new wine categories
• Sommelier History: How Poison-Detecting Servants Became Respected Wine Connoisseurs

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• 13th Annual Center for Alcohol Policy Conference Moved Online

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• As online shopping intensifies, e-commerce marketers are becoming increasingly reliant on Facebook’s ads

PAYMENTS

• Industry-first wine payment service to Australian and NZ producers launches

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Clean Wines, Explained: Separating Fact From Fiction in Winemaking’s Newest Trend
• Rosé here to stay
• Bodega Weinert In Mendoza: Malbec, Better With A Bit Of Ageing

WINE PEOPLE

• Vigneron Cameron Hughes Founded Two Businesses That Are Thriving In Difficult Times
• 5 minutes with Michiel du Toit, Winemaker at Landskroon Estate in Paarl
• Roger Jones on having to be as sober as a judge – on three occasions

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR LOTS MORE NEWS

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WINE PLACES

• Giaconda winery, near Beechworth, Victoria: Inside the secret wine cave you'll (probably) never get to visit
• Loire Valley: Touraine and Saumur (video)

ACADEMIA

• Researchers help keep fizz bubbling for global wine industry

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Nematode Management for Washington Grapes (podcast)
• Vineyard herbicide drift webinar – review

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Multiples will lose out as online & discounters thrive post-Covid
• UK: Bulk wine is key for on-trade buyers
• Waitrose: online boom unlikely to be reversed post-pandemic

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Wilyabrup GI on hold

SOUTH AFRICA

• South African government laments alcohol-related deaths

 

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