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Food & beverage sales come out clear winners in the new pandemic E-conomy

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• Can Millennials and Gen Z Actually Save the Wine Biz?
• Mississippi goes to war with citizens who buy wine out of state and ship it to themselves
• ProWein global report: Covid hits smaller wineries hardest
• TTB Approved 162.8K Products L12M through November 2020, A Decrease of -14.5K (–8.2%)
• A catastrophic year casts a pall of uncertainty across California’s agricultural valleys
• Food & beverage sales come out clear winners in the new pandemic E-conomy
• How “new school” technology lets L’Ecole No. 41 produce amazing “old school” wines.(Sponsored link)

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• US online sales surge during Covid does not compensate for lost cellar door sales
• Winc’s actual customer retention rate — here’s how the math works
• 2020 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced (Sponsored link)

 

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CONSUMER SALES: DTC, ON- & OFF-PREMISE

• Your Bev Alc Compliance Questions Answered (December 2020)
• Selling Wine, Beer, And Spirits In America*(Sponsored)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• U.S. Buyers Turn to Champagne and Italian Wines Amid Tariff Dispute
• Is Burgundy hot or not?
• Spain's cava takes milder pandemic punch than expected
• What’s new at the 2021 Sommeliers Choice Awards and how that will help wine brands. (Sponsored link)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Looming shutdown leaves Napa Valley's hospitality sector in unpleasant limbo
• Meet the ‘new guard’ of natural winemakers in Sonoma Valley
• Who Will Save the Family Farms? (video)

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COVID-19

• Northern California small businesses try to hold on as economy locks down again to slow the coronavirus
• Covid-19 poses “most acute challenge” to wine industry, ProWein says

• International Experts Discuss a Reimagined Wine Industry at wine2wine Business Forum
• A caricature fuels controversy over male chauvinism in the French wine industry

• FTC Launches Broad Online Privacy Investigation
• Suspected Russian Hack Said to Have Gone Undetected for Months

• Forecasters expect Western drought to continue through December

• McWilliams CEO says ‘we will keep pushing and we will keep trading’
• OZ: Group of friends buy Fox Creek Wines
• Massandra, historic Crimean estate, has been sold

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Rosenthal Wines loses $240,000 overnight due to brutal Chinese tariffs
• As China’s trade war with Australia shows, New Zealand must be careful to balance its own economic priorities
• Australia Stands Up to an Unhinged Beijing Bullying Campaign

• Southern Glazer’s Joins the National Minority Supplier Development Council
• Quintessential Wines Welcomes Champagne Palmer & Co. to Its Family Winery Portfolio on January 1st

• The market’s reaction to Wine Spectator’s top wines of 2020

• The Countries That Drank the Most French Wine in 2019

• Are Wine Experts Con Artists? (No)
• Somms Fight for Survival Post-Covid

• Inside Diageo North America’s Marketing Strategy (possible paywall)

• Portuguese Wines in the Age of Discovery
• The Christmas I learned that prosecco is not a personality

• This Winemaker is Inspired by Other Wine Women, Loves Grenache and Appreciates a Vintage Jerk — Meet Molly Lonborg

• How to Find Opportunities for Wine Mentorship and Education Outside the CMS

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FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• New Yorkers enjoy ‘Last Suppers’ before Cuomo, weather ruin restaurant dining

• Pandemic rules and smoke have meant a rough year for Oregon wineries
• New Jersey Vineyard Owner Could Be the Source of Mysterious Booms Driving an Entire Town Crazy

• WSU researchers discover new methods to fight invasive yeast in red winemaking
• WSU researchers studying spread of red blotch virus in vineyards

• Soil Texture and Vineyard Management
• Beaujolais: Winemaking Techniques (video)
• Invasive harlequin ladybird causes severe decline of two-spotted ladybird, new study shows

• Freixenet Copestick boss: the on-trade will bounce back
• Inter Beaujolais’ new MD Cécile Bossan-Redon on a year of change

• IWRA: It’s not all doom and gloom for the Australian wine sector
• OZ: Bushfire resource launched to help wine businesses

• South Africa curbs alcohol sales to combat Covid-19
• Stellenbosch murder: Wife of wine farm owner Stefan Smit charged with murder, robbery, assault

• A New Discovery of Very Smuggled, Very Old Old Smuggler

• Does Craft Beer Snobbery Start and End with Lagers?
• This Tax Hike Could Put Small Breweries Out Of Business (possible paywall)

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