FEBRUARY 14, 2023 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• Got Wine vs Not Wine? Wine and the Generation Gap
• Wine Institute Receives Less from FY 2023 U.S. Market Assistance Program. Northwest Wine Gets A Bit More.
• How Wine Businesses Are Maximizing Corporate Sales
• What hospitality and winery marketers need to know about AI tools like ChatGPT
• The gap between remote and onsite work narrows — again
• Hate filling out the CA Grape Crush Report? Now There’s help! – (Sponsored Link.)

OBITUARIES

• Kathy Shiels, founder of iconic Yakima Valley vineyard and winery, passes away at 72

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Punchdown! New Online Community Gives Wine Professionals Resources Designed Just For Them
• California North Coast wine grape crop value up 11% in 2022
• Major study finds moderate alcohol consumption linked to decrease in Dementia
• Nonalcoholic Beer Ad in Super Bowl Spotlights ‘Dry Economy’ [paywall?]
• 2022 Calif Grape Crush: Price Up, Tons Down. Red Wine Largest Share: Cab Over Chard
• Grow your wine brand awareness in restaurants and bars of USA – (Sponsored link)

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• 2022 Mendocino Grape Crush Report
• Inflation drives French wine and spirits exports to new high in 2022

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• New California law would expand sales of canned cocktails [paywall?]

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• Chile: Itata on fire
• Fungi and bacteria are binging on burned soil

WEATHER

• Cyclone Gabrielle rips through New Zealand’s North Island

DROUGHT/WATER

• Calif Governor Newsom Signs Order to Build Water Resilience Amid Climate-Driven Extreme Weather

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Why Are French Winemakers Planting Vineyards In England?

DIVERSITY

• Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Launches Incubator Academy Education Program for Diverse- and Women-Owned Brands
• Anderson winery owner hopes her success opens doors for other African Americans
• Kentucky’s first Black-owned liquor distributor plans big expansion this year

HEALTH

• Binge Drinking May Be Curbed With a Pill [paywall?]

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

• Sustainable winegrowing in a warming world

REGULATION & LEGAL MATTERS

• Newhouse named wine caucus co-chair

AGRIFOODTECH

• Silicon Valley layoffs are a boon for tech-hungry farm equipment makers
• More vineyards opt to send in the machines

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Two rare 1966 Dom Perignon magnums come to the market

MARKETING & SALES

• What the wine business can learn from the Super Bowl [paywall]

TRADE SHOWS & CONFERENCES

• BioSolutions 2023 Event To Shine Spotlight on Nasty Fruit and Nut Pests

MEDIA MATTERS

• How acclaimed wine author Mike Dunne introduces Lodi to the world

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Demystifying Reduction with Thomas Savre (podcast)
• Saliva: The Impact of a Sensory Element on Our Perception of Wine
• Euphemisms in Wine

WINE PEOPLE

• Robert Trone, Co-Owner, Total Wine & More [paywall?]
• How Daniel Posner Became a Goto Wine Guy (podcast)
• Meet the Radical Mexican Winemaker Producing No-Intervention ‘Juice’
• Ryan Rech, Winemaker, Beringer Vineyards, Napa Valley (podcast)

WINE TOURISM

• Bordeaux Wine Museum Reopens with A New Permanent Exhibition

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

• Why Has Wine in Restaurants Gotten So Expensive? (podcast)

DOWN UNDER

• OZ: Alarm Over Proposed Changes To Phylloxera Act

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China’s wine market drops 21% in value and volume

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• What Does a $5000 Whisky Taste Like?
• Scotch whisky exports reach new high [freewall?]