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DAILY NEWS FETCH - June 7, 2021

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

Consumer confidence falters in May despite COVID progress.

Scroll down to Daily Data for the full Morning Consult Chart

 

• The 2021 DTC Videocast Brings Clarity to a Changed Consumer
• Ready-to-drink category will soon overtake wine in the US
• Napa Auction Brings in the Big Money
• Texas Wine Grape Growers Sue Bayer-Monsanto Over Dicamba Drift Damage
• TTB Approved 174K Products L12M through May 2021, A Decrease of -2.1K (–1.2%)
• No One Is Talking About Bulk Wine, but They Should
• The Fine Art of Telling a Customer to F Off
• Consumer confidence falters in May despite COVID progress
• Digital Marketing for Wineries in 2021 Webinar, June 10 - *Sponsored link*
• The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! - (Sponsored link)

 

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DIVERSITY

• Golden Vines BAME/BIPOC scholarship winners unveiled

HEALTH

• #WineMom: Humour and empowerment or binge drinking and mental health challenges?

DROUGHT/WATER

• Western Drought Forces Farmers to Make Tough Decisions
• Jobs and Irrigation during Drought in California

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Swiss to vote on whether to become first European nation to ban synthetic pesticides

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Remy Cointreau posts encouraging annual results to continue industry trend
• Vivino names new CEO

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• France: Buzet co-op buys Rigal and leverages AdVini’s export reach

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• Women For WineSense Winemaking & Viticulture Roundtable Presents “The Science Of Communication: Avoiding Common Disconnects”

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE TOP NEWS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Talking Trade on Liv-ex – Fine Wine indices on the up

BORDEAUX EN PRIMEUR

• Alter Ego de Palmer 2020 En Primeur: “the gourmet touch”
• Haut-Bages Libéral 2020 En Primeur: “unique character”

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• The evolving language of wine

MARKETING & SALES

• Have All Your Rosé Questions Answered With This National Rosé Hotline [paywall?]

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Move to galvanise NZ action on compostable packaging

MEDIA MATTERS

• Who are you writing for?

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Wines from Chile are great value-for-money
• Jura's Pelican Takes Flight
• Tim Atkin MW: why Argentina 2019 is “the best vintage I have ever tasted”
• 10 Wines that Forever Changed the How the World Sees Italian Wine

WINE PEOPLE

• Talking Santa Cruz Mountain Wine With Ryan Beauregard
• Jay McInerney on The Taste with Doug Shafer (podcast)
• Samra Morris, Winemaker Alma Rosa Winery, Sta Rita Hills (podcast)
• Infiné 1939 Pinot Grigio: A Son 'At Last' Fulfills a Father's Dream

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR LOTS MORE NEWS

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WINE HISTORY

• Winemakers to pour $4 million into Smithsonian’s popular American Food History Project [paywall?]

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Why the Allure of Private Dining Will Remain After the Pandemic

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Maryland Wine and Grape Promotion Fund Accepting Grant Applications

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• How much do we currently know about the relationship between grape and wine phenolics and cell wall material?

EUROPE & THE UK

• Monks of France’s first papal vineyard sell wine to help local community

DOWN UNDER

• Tasmanian winemaking facilities go from bust to boom as growers push for local bottling
• OZ: Chinese tariffs put pause on vineyard expansion
• James Busby: New Zealand’s wine pioneer

AROUND THE GLOBE

• Ex-Porn Star's Wine War on Israel

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Why it’s time wine lovers took cider more seriously