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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

Nearly half of America’s states are increasing their minimum wage in 2021

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TOP NEWS

• Wine the Target for Investors – and Thieves
• US backs down from tariffs over French taxes
• U.S. loses 140,000 jobs in December. First decline in eight months stems from record coronavirus surge
• Stoller Family Estate Brings the Winery Experience to a New Level
• Wine in an Age of Mobs and Riots
• French wine thieves resort to pelting gendarmes with Burgundy in cork-popping car chase
• See how Phase 2 Cellars streamline systems and provide exceptional customer service. (Sponsored link)

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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• 2019: First year in US history that young women out drank young men
• Crimson Wine to restate 3+ years of financial results after independent review of “unreliable” accounting errors
• Millennials wary but continue to outpace Boomers in COVID-risky leisure activities
• 2020 USA Wine Ratings Winners Announced (Sponsored link)

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WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Just in Time Just Isnt Enough: COVID-19 Crisis Strains Supply Chain
• What’s new at the 2021 Sommeliers Choice Awards and how that will help wine brands. (Sponsored link)

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COVID-19

• Post-infection coronavirus immunity usually robust after 8 months, study shows

• Once-Elusive Corporate Racial Data Are Finally Trickling Out

• Americans’ Average Weight Holds Steady in 2020

• USA Drought Monitor West Coast and SW
• California Mt. Snowpack is 52% of Average
• Power, Water and Climate

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ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• China’s Trade Attack On Australia Is Producing Perverse Results
• Buzz Building for Solutions To Honey Bee Colony Collapse

• Wine, spirits can now be sold in new sizes in US

• $23 Million asked for 1,100-Acre Lake County Ranch with Vineyard and Winery

• Corona plans second hard seltzer launch this year
• Constellation Brands, Inc. (STZ) CEO William Newlands on Q3 2021 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

• Private clients invited to bid at Hospices de Nuits sale

• How To Start Your Own Wine Shop

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PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

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• 2021 $10 Wine Hall of Fame
• Tasting Challenge: California Chardonnay
• Discerning wines of the immediate future through what we know about the past and what's going in Lodi

• 2021 BC Liquor Hospitality Industry Health Order Update

• France's hopes lift as US freezes tariffs over tech tax

• AB InBev's South African Breweries takes alcohol ban to court

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