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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

Pandemic driving exponential growth of e-commerce. Daily Data has two recent charts from the Fed you've got to see! Scroll down.
 

• New US President Won't End Wine Tariffs
• U.S. Wine Imports Hit by Tariffs, Pandemic, But Retail Growth Stays Strong (possible paywall)
• Excess or Shortage? It Depends.: Turrentine Market Update
• USDA may adopt new drinking guidelines unsupported by science
• TTB Approved 105.9K wine products over the past 12 Months (–12.3% vs. last year)
• Pandemic driving exponential growth of e-commerce
• OZ: Barossa and McLaren Vale winemakers to 'lose millions' from GM decision
• "Texas sized” growth and complexity with vintrace.(Sponsored link)

OBITUARIES

• Obituary: James Symington 1934 – 2020

 

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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• U.S. data suggest economic recovery may be weakening
• Constellation & Gallo sign FTC agreement to allow $1.03 billion asset deal
• Winc raises $3+ million in latest offering, but fails to disclose federal court case brought against it by state of Ohio
• How Has The Role Of The Sommelier Evolved During COVID? (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• West Coast Wineries Remain Hopeful for 2020 Vintage
• How Champagne Is Bouncing Back After The COVID-19 Pandemic
• 2020 vintage report – Minervois
• IXSIR powers through Lebanon challenges to declare healthy vintage
• 2020 Best wines list for on-premise sector is out (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• MacLeod family sell its Sonoma Valley vineyard

COVID-19

• Gavin Newsom’s hypocritical French Laundry fiasco harms California’s COVID-19 efforts
• More Bay Area counties ban indoor dining
• WA: 20 farms fined for not protecting workers from COVID-19 (possible paywall)

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DIVERSITY

• A Focus on Enacting Positive Change through Inclusion and Female Leadership at wine2wine Forum
• Panel looks at issues faced by women in the wine industry

• Wine consumption and intestinal health

• When wine goes up in smoke
• Planning for a shorter rainy season and more frequent extreme storms in California
• Explaining the use of firebreaks and backfires to control wildfires (possible paywall)
• An 800-mile firebreak once protected California’s forests from flames. What happened? (possible paywall)

• Symington on climate change: ’We have to be activists’

• MI: Briefs In Opposition to Lebamoff Cert Petition Filed
• Ohio Settles with One Defendant in 21st Amendment Enforcement Action, Possibly More On the Way.
• Interview with Congressman Mike Thompson: California Wine Country's Foremost Advocate

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CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

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

• Property: Washington State wine villa goes on sale for $3.75m

• Nakedwines.com Continues Its Accelerated Growth This Fall
• Naked apologises for site crash due to Christmas surge

• This AI-Powered Wine Wall Is A Robotic Sommelier

• Europe strikes back at Trump taxes, and causes concern for French wines
• French wine imports to US hardest hit by 25% tariffs

• Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Appoints Paul Altarez to Executive Vice President and General Manager of Pennsylvania

• Hospices de Beaune sale postponed
• Wine fraud Rudy Kurniawan’s rise, fall, and plans for the future
• Wine Hunting in La-La Land
• Talking trade on Liv-ex – Bid and offer exposure reaches all time high
• Technique Boasts 100% Accuracy in Wine Authentication

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DATA & TRENDS

• How close are repeated wine-quality scores?

• The Wine Price Dilemma
• This Thanksgiving, the right wine to pair with the meal is the one that means the most to you

• Speaking of the land
• BrewDog hides gold cans worth £15k in packs of beer

• Who will be this year’s IWSC wine communicator of the year?

• Vine rootstocks: Getting to the root of the matter
• Dirt is Not Terroir
• Recovering the magic of El Marco: back to the sherry vineyards, and old ways of making wines
• An introvert’s guide to Italy (and Italian wine) in the era of Covid-19

• Keeping Up With The Joneses of Lava Cap Winery
• Wine research a delightful sensory explosion for Dr Vinay Pagay, a former engineer
• Michael Browne - Cirq and CHEV (podcast)

• These Four Producers are Redefining Washington Wine
• Idaho Is the Next American Wine Region That Deserves Your Attention
• Why Virginia Wines Are Trending

• Southern France's Wine Future Far From Rosé
• Wines from German-speaking lands find a new champion
• Off-Piste Wines sees turnover fall citing Brexit’s impact on currency and harvest issues

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E-Commerce Retail Sales as a Percent of Total Sales (ECOMPCTSA)

E-Commerce Retail Sales (ECOMSA)

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2018 Trentadue Winery OPR Old Patch Red (California)

2018 Trentadue Winery OPR Old Patch Red (California)   Blend of Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Carignane, and Sangiovese.   Toasted oak & mocha, lots of juicy dark red fruits like blackberry & black cherry.   Smooth and very yummy!   Purchased on sale for $13.99 (originally $18.99). -B

 

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