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DAILY NEWS FETCH - August 23, 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

COVID Socializing: Only half of adults are currently comfortable, but GenZ & Millennials buck that trend.

Scroll down to Daily Data to view the generational differences.

 

• Caldor Fire shuts down El Dorado wineries [paywall?]
• Becky Wasserman, American Champion of Burgundy's Small Wineries, Dies at 84
• We’re losing Rotundone’s peppery notes thanks to climate change
• Where are the "wine dads"? How gendered alcohol merchandise speaks to inequity in domestic labor
• California water regulators block thousands of farmers from accessing state’s largest watershed
• U.S. Alcohol Consumption on Low End of Recent Readings
• COVID Socializing: Only half of adults are currently comfortable, but GenZ & Millennials buck that trend
• Bye, Bye Wine Direct: The Quick Books of wine DTC has launched! - (Sponsored link)

OBITUARIES

• Ray Herrmann, Drinks Industry Icon, Dies at 100 [paywall?]
• The Franschhoek Valley in South Africa loses a giant: Sad passing of Rob Armstrong from Haut Espoir

 

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COVID-19

• ‘Super taster’ who lost his sense of smell is helping Italians regain it
• New York City restaurants sue the city over vaccine mandate

DIVERSITY

• Wine Will Not Be Appropriated

HEALTH

• Total faecal proanthocyanidins as intake biomarker? A first exploration

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Is the future of wine organic? One Napa Valley winery thinks so

FINANCE, INVESTMENT, M&A

• Henkell Freixenet completes acquisition of Filipopolis
• Morrisons accepts £7bn takeover bid from US private equity firm

DISTRIBUTORS

• RI: Teamsters Local 251 Strike At Johnson Brothers Marches On

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE TOP NEWS

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INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• The Liv-ex Classification 2021

WINE SELECTION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Stand by Your Brands
• Italian app helps you choose restaurants based on their wine lists
• Algorithms Will Make You Sad

MARKETING & SALES

• A Rosé So Divine They Call It Baby Jesus

PACKAGING, LABELS & CORKS

• The Cork Closure Makes a Comeback

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• ProWein prepares for inaugural Mumbai show

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Caribou Bones and Burgundy
• Blending wine is an old practice that’s newly popular. Some Virginia vintners are embracing it.

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR LOTS MORE NEWS

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WINE PEOPLE

• Celebrating the life of legend Becky Wasserman (video)
• Becky's Bouilland alumni
• Pio Cesare: Meet the New Boss
• Choosing A Life Based On California Pinot Noir Wine Over The Biotech World: Chris Kajani [paywall?]
• With an Urban Sensibility, Jennifer McDonald Is Reimagining the Modern Winery
• Santa Barbara's Native Son: Justin Willett
• Eli Ben Zaken, Domaine du Castel
• Jeff White the Founder and Winemaker at Glen Manor Vineyards (podcast)
• Marlborough’s sparkling pioneer

WINE PLACES

• Elite California Pinot Noir Vineyards Part II: North Coast - Russian River Valley

EUROPE & THE UK

• Natural Wine is Now Legal: Hungarian Wine Law Joins the Modern World
• How Sicilian Wines Finally Earned International Respect [paywall?]
• London City Vintners Ltd – incredible progress despite COVID

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• The (unknown) vineyard areas of Asia

SOUTH AFRICA

• Wine makers in court to argue for the full reopening of industry
• Vinpro pledges to continue fight as court case starts

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• California's craft rum distillers make their own rules [paywall?]

 

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