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DAILY NEWS FETCH - July 6, 2021

CREATED BY WINE INDUSTRY INSIGHT   & MADE POSSIBLE BY OUR SPONSORS

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

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

Wine Continues To Decline While Spirits Surge.

The sobering chart is at Daily Data. Scroll down.

 

• Wine Demand is Turning Negative, Defying Good News
• Supreme Court Petitioned on Wine Shipping
• California Wine Country Faces One Burning Question [paywall?]
• The importance of being Champagne
• North Coast grape harvest nears with smaller crop amid challenges of drought, wildfires
• Northern California wineries, farmers vie for FAIR share of wildfire insurance coverage
• Bye, Bye Wine Direct: The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! - (Sponsored link)

 

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DIVERSITY

• Meet 6 Trailblazing UK Female Winegrowers And Sommeliers
• Priyanka French Is Changing Napa’s Wine Industry for BIPOC Women
• Randallstown native Donae Burston introduced what he calls the world’s first Black-owned rose? wine
• They Are Coming For The Neck of French Wine

HEALTH

• Why the ‘sober curious’ movement keeps gathering pace

DROUGHT/WATER

• Santa Barbara County: Water War Breaks Out as Drought Descends

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Global Warming Is Increasing the Likelihood of Frost Damage in Vineyards
• Wine critics should consider a bottle’s social and environmental impact, too, one vintner says [paywall?]
• Shipping air across the Pacific

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Moet-Hennessy suspends shipments after Moscow says champagne is Russian
• Russian law on bubbly no cause to pop open the 'shampanskoye', says Abrau-Durso
• French champagne industry group fumes over new Russian law
• Report to Congress on Administration of Craft Beverage Modernization Act Refund Claims for Imported Alcohol (PDF)

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE TOP NEWS

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FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• OZ: Tulloch Wines owners selling Hunter’s Two Rivers vineyard
• A 34% share rise puts LVMH chairman in line for world’s richest person

WEBINARS/ONLINE MEETINGS

• Calif: Harvest 2021 Employee Health & Safety Webinar

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Insurance misconceptions place wine collections at risk
• ‘One of a kind’ Penfolds Grange 1951 bottle to ‘smash’ world record price
• New milestone for LWIN: Free data on 100,000 wines and spirits
• Rhone 100 leads the broader market in June
• Benchmark index up 5.9% in the first half of 2021

MARKETING & SALES

• Brand first, appellation second

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• Macrowine, the review of world wine research closes with 20 hours of live coverage and 428 experts from 23 countries
• Cheers to Vinexpo and Drinks America (podcast)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Open Letter to Graduates: The Wine Trade Could be Injurious to Your Health
• Good Taste is Not About Detecting Aroma Notes
• Wine Twins Can Confuse Even the Most Expert Tasters

WINE PEOPLE

• Talking Santa Lucia Highlands Syrah With Bibiana González Rave
• Why ‘The Godfather’ Inspires Ram’s Gate’s Joe Nielsen
• When The Wine Industry Doesn’t Live Up To The Dream, A Couple Starts A Unique Napa Cabernet Project [paywall?]
• Melanie Krause, Winemaker & Owner Cinder Winery, Garden City, Idaho (podcast)
• Morgan Twain-Peterson, MW (podcast)

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR LOTS MORE NEWS

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WINE PLACES

• Meet Washington’s newest AVAs Part 3: The Burn of Columbia Valley
• Could Italy’s Alto Piemonte region be the new Barolo?

WINE HISTORY

• Did lead poisoning (from wine and everything else) cause downfall of Roman Empire? The jury is still out

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• This Missouri Wine Region Dreams of Becoming the Midwestern Napa Valley

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Transcriptional, hormonal, and metabolic changes in susceptible grape berries under powdery mildew infection
• Oak barrels, part 3 — French and American silviculture and oak seasoning

EUROPE & THE UK

• Changing the Rules for Chianti Classico
• Substantial damage caused by a tornado in the Loire Valley prompts community spirit
• Still Life in Coteaux Champenois
• Mallya: Diageo challenge USL share sale
• UK: WSTA appoints three new board members
• UK: Morrisons agrees £6.3bn takeover bid by Fortress-led group
• OenoGroup co-founder steps down as CEO

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Beyond baijiu: Moutai launches a US$500 wine

SOUTH AFRICA

• Alcohol ban to be challenged in court as South Africa faces extended lockdown

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Rats Down 12 Bottles Of Wine In Liquor Store: Is It Safe For Rodents?

 

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