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DAILY NEWS FETCH - September 15, 2020

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

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

Republicans 2X as ready to dine out as Democrats. Daily Data has the latest Morning Consult chart. Scroll down.
 

• Almeda fire destroys Southern Oregon winery: ‘We don’t have a single bottle of one of our wines left’
• 2020: The Year Testing Availability and Technology Failed Our Wine Industry Economy
• Around the World, the 2020 Wine Harvest May Be Most Troubled Ever
• The TTB’s Category Problem
• Republicans 2X as ready to dine out as Democrats
• Power shut-offs are in your future. Keep crush moving. Click to reserve your generator NOW! (Sponsored)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• The Lawrence Family, Heitz Cellar owners, acquire Howell Mountain's Burgess Cellars
• TerrAvion Chapt 11: up to $50 million in liabilities, less than $50K in assets
• Streamlining a Large Custom Crush Operation for Clients and Cellar Staff (Sponsored)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER

• ?California Statewide Fire Summary September 14, 2020
• Creek Fire already 13th largest in California history. Concerns remain for wind forecast
• Amateur Air Pollution Trackers Are Mapping Western Wildfire Smoke
• West Coast Wildfires Demand Our Attention (podcast)
• Calif: Farms assessing damage from devastating wildfires

 

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REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• AB InBev sued for false and misleading advertising

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Streamlined Sales Tax (SST) for DtC Alcohol Shippers: Your Questions Answered
• Avalara Unveils Comprehensive Beverage Alcohol Compliance Solution for Wineries, Distilleries, Breweries, Importers, and Retailers as Selling Shifts to Ecommerce
• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Brands acquires Kentucky-based craft spirits producer Copper & Kings
• Taco Bell is now selling its own custom wine

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Wine Auctions Pivot—Quite Profitably—to the Virtual World
• James Halliday’s private collection to go under the hammer

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• French show organisers launch ‘Vinexposium’

 

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MEDIA MATTERS

• Book review: Wine Girl by Victoria James
• Book Excerpt: On the China Wine Trail

WINE PEOPLE

• Le Clos Category Manager Beans Boughton is named UAE’s first Master of Wine

WINE PLACES

• Loire Valley: Pays Nantais & Anjou (video)
• Montenegro - A Center of Vine Diversity in Europe

WINE EDUCATION

• WSET announces bursary fund for Asia Pacific region

WINE HISTORY

• Iron Age wine press yields clues to Phoenician building techniques

 

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NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MD: Great Frogs Winery still closed after tornado rips off tasting room roof; Dodon vineyard expecting lower yield
• Crafty solution at Northampton County winery doing wonders to scare away birds
• Lessons Learned From Vineyard Pruning in the Mid-Atlantic

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Barrel brokers provide variety for producers looking to season their concoctions through aging

EUROPE & THE UK

• How Italy’s Wine Estates Are Transcending Regional Character
• WSTA looks to ‘once in a lifetime’ excise duty review in opening summit address

DOWN UNDER

• A NZ$9.5bn problem
• OZ: Helping future-proof the wine sector

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Study finds Chinese millennials fueling online drinks sales

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Canned Cocktails: Not So Easy to Get Approved

 

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