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DAILY NEWS FETCH - September 30, 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

Halloween at risk from COVID-spooked Americans. AlcBev. retail sales could suffer. The scary chart is at Daily Data, Scroll down.
 

• Fires Leave Napa Harvest on a Knife Edge
• 2020's fire damage to Napa wineries already far exceeds 2017, and it may not be done (possible paywall)
• How Microagressions in a Sonoma Winery Made a Black Winemaker Question Her Profession
• Halloween at risk from COVID-spooked Americans AlcBev. Retail sales could suffer.
• Power shut-offs are in your future. Keep crush moving. Click to reserve your generator NOW! (Sponsored)

WILDFIRES & WEATHER (scroll to the bottom for more wildfire coverage)

• FEMA aid made available for Glass fire survivors
• Napa/Sonoma #Glassfire Resources & News Links
• Rombauer is safe. Here are Napa Valley wineries not yet damaged in the Glass Fire despite rumors (possible paywall)
• A running list of Napa Valley wineries that have been damaged or destroyed in the 2020 Glass Fire (possible paywall)
• Napa Valley vintners survey Glass fire damage as annual harvest wraps up early

 

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TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• OSU to Study Effects of Wildfire Smoke on Hemp Crops amid Historic Fires

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Why Regenerative Farming Matters for the Future of Winemaking

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Grow Your Delivery and Curbside Pick Up Business*(Sponsored)

AGRIFOODTECH

• Making better wine and beer with machine learning

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Historic Mosel TBA acquired by collector

 

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MARKETING & SALES

• Illy Jaffar on why we need to ‘reset’ how we act, think and communicate
• How Marketing Unconsciously Manipulates What We Buy

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Do we have packaging mobility yet?

MEDIA MATTERS

• 9 Books to Build Your Best Wine Library

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Triumph of Tempranillo
• The Joys of Serendipity

WINE HISTORY

• Archaeologists in Turkey Unearth 2,400-Year-Old Dionysus Mask

WINE EDUCATION

• New Spaces in the Drinks World (podcast)

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR LOTS MORE NEWS

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NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Oregon Sets Sale: Consumer compass points in right direction

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Good Advice for the Grape Industry From Long Ago

EUROPE & THE UK

• Soave approves 33 new ‘crus’
• Finland's Altia ties up with Norway's Arcus in liquor, wine merger

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Label Directory development underway
• OZ: New leader to use a strong foundation to take Riverland Wine into a bright future

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China a growing wine force
• Changyu ‘Purple Air’: A new Ningxia wine style?

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• VA Tech / Cornell Researchers Hope to Straighten Out America’s Hard Cider Identity Crisis

MORE WILDFIRE COVERAGE

• How wine country became the epicenter for fires in California
• At least the vineyard was spared: Napa’s Burgess Cellars burns in Glass Fire
• ‘Castle’ winery owner thought Glass Fire would stop at Napa River
• 'Cross your fingers for us': Napa Valley wineries report property damages amid Glass Fire
• Glass Fire damages wineries as it marches around the Upvalley
• ‘Fire fatigue’ setting in after another year of evacuations in California’s wine country
• OR Wildfire Impacts: Talent winery incinerated; industry assesses smoke effects on hanging fruit

 

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