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DAILY NEWS FETCH - August 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

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• Competition in the Beverage Alcohol Industry Under the Microscope – Part 2
• Vintage Wine Estates President Terry Wheatley notes heightened winery interest in cannabis sector [paywall?]
• Potential long-term drought makes Napa Valley grapegrowers nervous [paywall?]
• France forecasts fall in weather-hit wine output to historic low
• OR: OSHA fines Dundee winery $11,100 after worker death
• Are California’s Cannabis Growers Stealing Water During a Drought?
• Bye, Bye Wine Direct: The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! - (Sponsored link)

 

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CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Matt McMillan Promoted to Senior Director of Sales at Wonderful Nurseries
• Carmel allows some wine tasting rooms to take service back outside after parklets shutdown.
• Winery Shuffle in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone
• Cottonwood Canyon Winery is struggling to stay afloat during pandemic
• Hall heads to the Caribbean [paywall?]

COVID-19

• Napa joins Bay Area counties in requiring masks again indoors
• Yelp will now allow users to filter restaurants by vaccine requirements

DIVERSITY

• Elevating Wines from Groundbreaking BIPOC Producers
• Kwaw Amos Is The Founder Of New York's First Black-owned Winery

STARTUPS & NEW BRANDS

• Penfolds expands luxury wine portfolio with ‘Superblends’

HEALTH

• Wine and health [paywall?]

 

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TAKING THE HIGH ROADS

• Cannabis drinks market to reach US$6bn by 2031

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Climate Change: Winiarski donation supports UC Davis update of the Winkler Index [paywall?]
• World champion in organic farming

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Domaine Clarence Dillon buys Château Grand Pontet

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Beyond Bordeaux 2020 EP: Finding Value Following Price Increases

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• Glassware Revisited

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• In Vino Analytica Scientia 2022

 

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SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• 5 Reasons Your Wine Ads on Facebook Are Not Working

MEDIA MATTERS

• How To Become A Professional Wine Writer

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Regionality is key to discovering Chianti Classico in 2021
• Pinot Grigio Rosé is being researched

WINE PEOPLE

• J Vineyard’s Nicole Hitchcock: on making wine in Russian River
• Eleanor Coppola: Meet the Matriarch Behind the Wine Empire (VIDEO)
• Meet the wine world’s celebrity pruner
• Kirk Venge: Rooted in Napa Valley [paywall?]
• Unfiltered: Guy Palmer-Brown

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Applications of Chitosan during the harvest (video)

DOWN UNDER

• Farewell ‘Bernadino spewmuchly’: New Zealand mourns loss of favoured sparkling wine

 

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