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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

The Swiss Cheese Model of Pandemic Defense. Daily Data shows why Emmental is your friend. Scroll down now.
 

• Bob Hartzell, Former ExDir of Calif Assn of Wine Grape Growers, has died
• Beer, Spirits, & Wine – Packaged Imports Decline -8% By Value L12M through October 2020, Packaged Exports Decline -2%
• Sovos ShipCompliant Data Shows Record High Transactions on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
• The Supreme Court may prefer Wine to Walmart
• Consumers drinking less alcohol during pandemic, except in the US and Canada
• A total restaurant apocalypse is coming. But it’s not inevitable (possible paywall)
• How the internet is changing the way we buy wine
• How Wine by Sam's winemaker got back into the cellar with vintrace.(Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• California wineries brace for big losses during holiday season after looming lockdown (possible paywall)
• Vineyard House, Constellation To Kalon battle may be over soon.
• Winc’s actual customer retention rate — here’s how the math works
• 2020 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced (Sponsored link)

 

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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Existing Club Members Drove Digital Sales Surge
• England: Nyetimber exports up 90% in 2020
• What’s new at the 2021 Sommeliers Choice Awards and how that will help wine brands. (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Beckstoffer Vineyards restructures family’s farming & vineyard operations
• California vintners eye year-end sales to gauge 2021 grape, bulk wine needs
• Measure J: Protecting Napa agriculture for the past 30 years
• Paradise Ridge Winery closing Kenwood tasting room
• Beckstoffer Vineyards restructures family’s farming & vineyard operations
• California's Other Cabernet Stakes a Claim
• Women Winemakers hosting holiday fundraiser to benefit Foodbank

COVID-19

• The Swiss Cheese Model of Pandemic Defense (Why Emmental is your friend)
• New Cal-OSHA standards could help curb COVID-19 spread in agricultural, service sectors
• OR: Outdoor tastings resume after wineries lose millions during COVID-19 freeze
• Debate over mulled wine heats up in Germany amid pandemic lockdown
• Ontario’s Liquor Control Board Partners With Skip The Dishes, Bludgeoning Local Bars And Restaurants

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DIVERSITY

• Alicia Kidd’s The Wine Noire is Helping BIPOC and Women-owned Brands
• Women in Wine: Change is a Process (video)
• Does the New World/Old World Distinction Marginalize Non-Europeans?
• Microaggressions Are Often Misunderstood. Here Are 5 Dangerous Myths To Be Aware Of

• New Drinking Guidelines For Men Ignore Science

• House votes to legalize weed

• Is California Heading for a Multi-Year Drought?
• Calif: Initial SWP water allocation set at 10%

• Wineries Strive for Carbon Neutrality. Is It Enough?

• Repeal Day With Tom Wark (podcast)

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CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Silicon Valley Veteran, David Cross, Appointed LibDib CTO
• Selling Wine, Beer, And Spirits In America*(Sponsored)

• Yealands Wine Group sells Marlborough vineyards to NZ Super Fund for $34 million
• Rémy Cointreau Sells Its Shares in the Passoã SAS Joint Venture to the Lucas Bols Group
• Foley-backed blank-check acquisition firm nears $9 billion Paysafe deal

• China boycott to hit Australian wine harder than expected as fruit and vegetable prices rise
• Australia Sounds Alarm on Trade as China Row Slams Farm Exports
• British thirst could save Australian wine from China tariffs
• OZ: Inland producers to weather China tariffs despite ‘difficult times ahead’
• The French wine industry should not rejoice over Chinese import taxes on Australian wines
• S. Africa wine industry to increase market share in China

• Joint Harpers-NZ webinar to examine myths and facts around sea-shipping emissions

• Fine wine continues to climb in November
• Legendary Bordeaux: The Stories of Bordeaux’s First Growth Wines

• Tasting great wines?

• Improving E-mail Ethics in the Wine Industry

• This California winemaker is impressed with nutrition fact boxes

• A trio of wine book reviews: from outer space to Southwest U.S.A.
• Books for wine lovers

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MATTERS OF TASTE

• Booze has a long history on the space station – even though NASA has banned drinking in space for almost 50 years
• Bottega: Stop treating Prosecco like beer
• The current state of Italian wine in the world
• Charles Heidsieck Revives a Unique Champagne
• Where to find the best Cabernet Franc wines outside France
• Brut Sous Bois Q & A with Mathieu Roland-Billecart

• Italy's Mr Wine Sees a Bright Future
• Tyrrell wine family's pioneering served Ann Ellis well as she steered a new direction
• A Conversation With Kristie Tacey of Tessier Winery
• Matt Lindsley looks forward to his next wine role
• Shannon Brock, Co-Owner Silver Thread Vineyard, Finger Lakes, NY (podcast)

• Doug Frost MS MW on Portugal’s largest and most misunderstood DOP

• MW proves ‘halo effect’ between wine and spirits education

• I’m Afraid It's Too Late to Save Restaurants
• Restaurant sales, employment growth stall in November

• Mexico, the land that seeks to change the paradigm of wine
• Albariño grape finds a sweet spot as popular dry white that’s grown, made in the mid-Atlantic

• Coupling DAD and FLD for multiclass profiling of phenolic compounds in wine industry products

• Pandemic hits tiny Moldova’s hopes for wine tourism boom

• Singapore: Former Straits Wine sales manager fined $3,000 for corruption

• As Drinks Get Funky, The Line Between Beer and Wine Blurs

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2020 Sea Salt Sauvignon Blanc (Marlborough, New Zealand)

  2020 Sea Salt Sauvignon Blanc (Marlborough, New Zealand)   Herbaceous nose with citrus...bright and lively with a slight effervescence. Yummy and easy drinking!   Purchased on sale for $13.99 (originally $15.99) from Lowe’s Foods in Cary, NC. -B

 

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