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DAILY NEWS FETCH - October 9, 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

2020 Has Upended What Consumers Expect From Brands. These are the types of holiday messages that are most likely to help your sales. The chart and a deeper dive link are at Daily Data. Scroll down.
 

• Just when we need a drink, the U.S. wine industry faces an existential threat
• Wine's Covid Winners and Losers
• Napa Valley assesses a fire season that could forever alter its tourism economy
• 2020 Has Upended What Consumers Expect From Brands. These are the types of holiday messages that are most likely to help your sales.
• With harvest amid fire and smoke, how should Napa Valley protect its farmworkers?
• Power shut-offs are in your future. Keep crush moving. Click to reserve your generator NOW! (Sponsored)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Latest Glass Fire Toll: 31 Wineries, Restaurants, and Lodges
• Vintage Wine Estates smoke-taint insurance lawsuit scheduled for trial; Could set precedent
• Interview with Marcus Rafanelli, Winemaker, L'Ecole 41, Walla Walla, Washington (Sponsored)

 

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COVID-19

• Santa Barbara County Strengthens COVID Protocols at Farmworker Housing After Outbreaks

HEALTH

• Kids Are Home, I’m Home, I Need A Drink—Alcohol Abuse During COVID-19 And Its Impact On Child Custody

TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• New Law Expands California’s Cannabis Geographical Indications And Mandates Terroir-Based Appellations of Origin

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• The growing world of sustainable farming

CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Selling Wine, Beer, And Spirits In America*(Sponsored)

 

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REAL ESTATE

• Property: Stunning wine lifestyle estates for sale

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Constellation Brands contributes more than $100,000 to California wildfire relief efforts

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• VA: Glass House Winery Sold

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – Napa Valley leads weekly trade
• Boplaas Port achieves historic price at the CWG Auction
• How Fine Wine Distribution Is Changing Over 2020

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• The hundred halters
• How one of the world’s largest wine competition was made possible during a pandemic
• Jacques Pepin: I usually buy wine that costs less than $10 (video)

MARKETING & SALES

• Best wine subscription and clubs for 2020: The Panel, Winc, Vinebox and more compared
• Digital Hub: Hospitality & tech; IGTV opportunity; Amazon targets luxury…

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• We have too much beer (and soda, and seltzer), and not enough cans

MEDIA MATTERS

• War-Torn Wine, 'Worst' Champagne Harvest: Two Gripping New Wine Documentaries Debut
• Jancis Robinson MW Celebrates 20 Years of JancisRobinson.com with California Wine

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR LOTS MORE NEWS

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MATTERS OF TASTE

• Exploring Pinotage

WINE PEOPLE

• Biting Talk with Sarah Jane Evans MW: 'The French plant vines here because they know it's the place to be' (podcast)
• Meet the Winemaker - Rijk Melck from Muratie (podcast)

WINE PLACES

• From Volcanoes to Vineyards - New Geologic Map Reveals Portland's (OR) Deep History

HISTORY

• ‘Drunken Princes’ scroll sells for US$41m

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• MI: New owners pouring $2.5 million into major expansion of Shady Creek Winery

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Effect of different levels of oxygenation on phenolic and volatile compounds of Nebbiolo wine during bottle storage (PDF)

EUROPE & THE UK

• French coopers sustain revenues

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Fast-tracking botrytis fungicide resistance identification
• OZ: Tractors become virtual classroom for growers
• OZ: Biosecurity Plan a ‘road map’ for the sector

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Wine drinking in China evolves, with online parties, events and influencers pushing consumption at home, amid Covid-19 lockdowns

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Sangiovese crossword

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• The Scientists Using Machine Learning to Improve Whiskey Tasting
• This company wants to use science to make better whiskey

 

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