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DAILY NEWS FETCH - September 10, 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

Per-bottle wine spend for pandemic home drinking drops in most global markets, but US ekes out small rise. Daily Data has the numbers for you. Scroll down to the chart.
 

• At least 6 dead as wildfires rage across Calif, Pacific NW
• Smoke Exposure Testing Limitations Could Be Devastating for Winegrapes
• Who’s Drinking The Champagne? U.S. Sales Up 73%
• Supreme Court Asks Michigan to Respond to 6th Circuit Cert Petition
• Per-bottle wine spend for pandemic home drinking drops in most global markets, but US ekes out small rise
• Power shut-offs are in your future. Keep crush moving. Click to reserve your generator NOW! (Sponsored)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Undocumented Farmworkers Toil in California Fire Evacuation Zones
• TerrAvion Chapt 11: up to $50 million in liabilities, less than $50K in assets
• To Kalon Trial lawsuit gets underway
• Harvard-controlled LLC in $120+ million deal with anonymous LLC connected with Canadian pension fund.
• Streamlining a Large Custom Crush Operation for Clients and Cellar Staff (Sponsored)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• Wine Country Fires Spread North
• At least 3 dead as wildfire explodes in Northern California
• Winemakers are worrying about smoke taint, but wine drinkers should not (possible paywall)
• Map traces current fires burning across northwest Oregon in real-time
• Wildfires rage in 13 Western states

 

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HEALTH

• Does the Mediterranean diet protect against rheumatoid arthritis?
• More than 1 drink a day could raise blood pressure in adults with diabetes

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• 'Green rush': Cannabis boom squeezing farmland in North America

DROUGHT/WATER

• A basic primer on water quality regulation

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Oregon’s New Premium Box Wine Has Impressive B Corps Cred

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Maricopa County Superior Court Denies Injunction Against Bar Closures

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• How to Increase Your Online DTC Wine Sales
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

 

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AGRIFOODTECH

• An electronic nose for wine

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• Join DP&F’s Richard Mendelson for Free Webinar: Doing Business in the Time of COVID

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Ornellaia charity bottles sell for £193k
• André Lurton’s classic car collection to be sold

MARKETING & SALES

• Case Study: How Gloria Ferrer Increased Wine Club Sign-Ups and Reduced Attrition
• The rebirth of the QR code
• TV wine ads: Australia’s Brokenwood Cellars, and how wine commercials haven’t changed in 50 years

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• New Studies Reveal High CO2 Retention Rate Across Amorim Cork Stopper Portfolio

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWine Shanghai to go ahead as planned
• ProWein shows: São Paulo postponed Shanghai on track

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Uncovering the science of Indigenous fermentation
• Merlot Wine Is Delicious And Miles From “Sideways” Is Wrong
• The Comforts of Home
• Monks Are Making (and Inspiring) Your Whisky, Wine, Coffee, and Beer

WINE PEOPLE

• The Man Who Helped Put Jersey Wineries on the Map
• Melissa Hansen: At the forefront of research
• The Indian entrepreneur behind new Bordeaux wine Solicantus

 

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WINE PLACES

• Five Architecturally Stunning Wineries Worldwide, From Spain to Georgia

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• New York City to reopen indoor dining at 25% capacity on September 30

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• PA: Research Funding Efforts Underway To Control Spotted Lanternfly Infestation
• Teroldego may put Colorado’s wine industry on the map

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Use of Ultra-High Pressure Homogenization to control microbial populations in grape musts (PDF)
• A new life for winemaking lees: from waste to photovoltaics (PDF)
• The impacts of material-other-than-grapes (MOG) on aroma compounds of red wine varieties
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• 'You have to protect the grapes from getting sunburn'

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Surging demand for low- and no-alcohol wines
• Ch. Tanunda owner loses railway line battle

DOWN UNDER

• Australian wine industry setbacks could see many small players go out of business
• SA activates $870,000 national AgTech wine project

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Kirin caught up in Myanmar human rights crisis
• Molson Coors Beverages: Drink This For 20% Gain
• Boston Beer’s Jim Koch Debuts on Forbes 400, Is Truly a Billionaire

 

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