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DAILY NEWS FETCH - August 18, 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

Consumer confidence in wine steady as drinkers' knowledge decreases.

The seemingly paradoxical chart is at Daily Data. Scroll down.

 

• Rabbit Ridge Winery Bankruptcy Trustee Hires Farm Operator for 2021 Harvest; Most Grapes Still Unsold
• Consumer confidence in wine steady as drinkers’ knowledge decreases & category “democratises.”
• Auction of Washington Wines Raises More Than $2.2 Million During First-Ever Hybrid Auction
• Here’s how restaurants can prepare for vaccination mandates
• Labs for Smoke Exposure Testing of Wine and Winegrapes
• Bye, Bye Wine Direct: The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! - (Sponsored link)

 

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DIVERSITY

• Mags Jango: My career in wine & Gerard Basset’s MW Scholarship
• How Wine & Culture Fest Is Amplifying Unheard Voices (podcast)

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Jackson Family Wines aims to slash carbon footprint in half by 2030
• Climate Change in South Africa: Wine industry has little room to hide

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Deutsche Post to Buy Logistics Firm Hillebrand for $1.8 Billion [paywall?]
• Ukraine: State-owned Odesavynprom wine producer put up for sale

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• NZ: Upping exports to South Korea could reduce our reliance on the Chinese market

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Live wine auction coming to Sonoma County in September [paywall?]
• Italian releases on La Place: what to expect?

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE TOP NEWS

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TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• OZ: WineEng 2021 shifting online due to COVID lockdowns

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• Why French winemakers never reply to emails

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Can We Taste Colour?

WINE PEOPLE

• Bouncing Back Q&A: Tom Smith, Accolade Wines

WINE PLACES

• G.D. Vajra the quiet achiever

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• This opulent new Silicon Valley restaurant comes with a surprise: a virtual reality private dining room [paywall?]

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR LOTS MORE NEWS

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NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Vermont wine industry shows room for growth
• FL: Community Comes Together To Help Harvest Local Vineyard Grapes After Injury

ACADEMIA

• UK: Plumpton announces new winemaker

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Slowing the sugar rush to yield better grapes
• Pre-veraison and veraison canopy management in the vineyard
• Critical timing of fungicide application for pruning wound protection to control grapevine trunk diseases

EUROPE & THE UK

• UK: Spirits boost drinks sales recovery while wine trails behind

DOWN UNDER

• NZ: Group chief winemaker resigns from Foley Wines

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Love Hard Seltzer? Have We Got a Wine for You! (podcast)

 

 

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