---

---

ALSO SPONSORED BY:

---

---

TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Click → [UNSUBSCRIBE] ←

To SUBSCRIBE CLICK HERE

ALSO SPONSORED BY:

---

DAILY NEWS FETCH - June 4, 2021

CREATED BY WINE INDUSTRY INSIGHT   & MADE POSSIBLE BY OUR SPONSORS

Publisher/Executive Editor, Lewis Perdue -- Editor, Becca Yeamans-Irwin

---

Sponsored by:

Also sponsored by:

Also sponsored by:

---

TODAY'S TOP NEWS

Despite a slew of trendy new apps, YouTube & Facebook still rule US adult users by huge margins

Scroll down to Daily Data to see just how dominant those two really are.

 

• Global alcohol consumption will bounce back to pre-Covid levels by 2023, boosted by e-commerce and industry pivoting in key markets
• End in Sight for Temporary Covid Relief Measures from CA ABC
• Drought losses mounting in Sonoma County agricultural sector [paywall?]
• Can Oregon Wine Tourism Survive the Portland Problem?
• Phil Mickelson, wine influencer? This $450 Napa Cab is selling out after golfer drinks it from trophy [paywall?]
• Please Do Not Let “Wine Racism” (over a grape!) Become a Thing
• Despite a slew of trendy new apps, YouTube & Facebook still rule US adult users by huge margins
• The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! - (Sponsored link)
• Digital Marketing for Wineries in 2021 Webinar, June 10 - *Sponsored link*

 

---

---

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Drinks brand launches vodka made from used grape skins

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Drinks hires former Kroger e-commerce leader as vice president

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• English winemaker Chapel Down crowdfunds for up to £7m to scale up
• WA: Sagemoor enters Walla Walla Valley grape market with Southwind Vineyard purchase

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Mexican wine producers seeing huge growth opportunities in China (video)
• New Zealand's foreign minister downplays possibility of economic coercion from China

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE TOP NEWS

---

---

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• The fine wine market hits an all-time high

BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR

• Grand-Puy-Ducasse 2020 En Primeur: “the dark horse of Pauillac”
• Clos du Marquis 2020 En Primeur: “sensual and inviting”

DATA & TRENDS

• SipSource Issues First-Quarter Data, Predicts Post-COVID-19 Consumer Trends, Tracks On-Premise Progress

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Thinking Wholistically About Pizza, T-Rex, and Wine
• The Surprising Story of Oregon’s Other Pinot
• Will Grenache blanc become Lodi's Chardonnay someday soon?

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR LOTS MORE NEWS

---

---

WINE PEOPLE

• CA farmworker turned NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez now producing wine out of his own vineyard
• Dr. Charles Edwards, Washington State University (podcast)
• How Three Longtime Friends Overcame Adversity to Build the Winery of Their Dreams
• A tribute to wine visionaries [paywall?]

WINE PLACES

• Librandi: A flickering light in a dark past of Calabrian wine, with hopes of keeping on the lights

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Willamette Valley: The New Burgundy?
• WA: Seven Hills Winery founder retires, assistant named winemaker

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Use of Pulsed Light for Grape Sanitization
• Wrap your vines in a fleece to protect them against the frost

EUROPE & THE UK

• Italian parliament poised to approve bill that would create an “Italian organic” brand and “organic districts.”