MARCH 8, 2023 – WINE NEWS FETCH

• To reach different ages, wineries should try a different marketing approach
• Former New York property developer jailed in NZ for $1.3m tax fraud after setting up Canterbury winery business
• Amazon is Coming for Alcohol!
• Fine Wine Market Strong at 2023 Premiere Napa Valley
• 50%+ of Americans Are Aware of AI; Fewer Than Half Can Identify It. Where Do You Fit?
• Wine Royalty of Paso Robles confidentially selling vineyard estate in Adelaida AVA. Click to learn more.– (Sponsored link)

OBITUARIES

• Former Wine Institute International Marketing Director Joe Rollo Remembered

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

• Chutes and Ladders: Wine and the Premiumization Game
• The Next Era of DtC Wine Shipping Starts Now
• New Zealand Wine Weathers Supply Challenges, Bolsters U.S. Import Market [paywall?]

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Prosecco DOC Reports Over 638 Million Bottles Sold in 2022, Worth Over $3 Billion
• The Disenfranchised

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Wine Label Compliance Class In Napa April 19th
• Rapid Growth of the Paso Robles CAB Collective
• American Canyon, Napa school district in Watson Ranch dispute [paywall?]

WILDFIRES/SMOKE TAINT

• Napa Valley to host Wildfire Resilience Summit

WEATHER

• Odds of El Niño return to California are increasing. [paywall?]

DROUGHT/WATER

• California’s Snowpack Shows Huge Gains from Recent Storms

DIVERSITY

• Healdsburg winemaker Nicole Hitchcock paving a path for women in the wine industry
• Napa’s first Black female winemaker
• International Women’s Day Wikipedia overhaul
• Italian women cultivating a life in winemaking
• Insights from industry women
• Australia: Scholarship empowers women in the organic wine industry
• Women leaders head up drinks packaging expansion
• Women winemakers rule the roost in this Australian state
• Hats off to Champagne’s Historic Women [paywall?]
• Our Legacy Harvested Announces Fall 2023 Internship Applications, Bringing BIPOC Diversity to Wine Industry, Open Now

HEALTH

• Drunk mice sober up after a hormone shot

PUBLIC COMPANIES

• Brown-Forman 3Q Income Drops 61% Despite Higher Sales [paywall?]

AGRIFOODTECH

• What the Future of Automation in Agriculture Might Look Like

DISTRIBUTORS

• How Fine Wine Importer, Wilson Daniels, Manages Some Of World’s Most Expensive Wine Brands [paywall?]

INVESTING IN WINE, COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Demand for fine wine in China boosts February activity at Cult Wines
• Latour 1900 and Mouton 1945 lead Christie’s Christen Sveaas March sale
• Liv-ex 1000 falls for the fourth month in a row
• Hospice de Nuits sale hails ‘abundant and sun-drenched’ 2022 harvest

DATA & TRENDS

• How To Tell If A Survey Is Credible: Minimum Standards

MARKETING & SALES

• UK: The Wine Collective on how they have shaken up wine marketing

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• TikTok Is Having a Major Impact on the Wine World (podcast)

MATTERS OF TASTE

• The Changing Face of Chenin Blanc

WINE PEOPLE

• Worobiec isn’t a spectator in the wine world [paywall?]

NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• NYC wine shop Sherry-Lehmann faces $3M tax debt
• Bill That Would Create the Oregon Spirits Board Captures State’s Conflict Over Booze
• New Economic Study Reveals Impact of Millions in Tax Revenue and Benefits for South Carolina if Sunday Liquor Store Sales Ban is Overturned

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Tuning the ph during the fermentation effect on the wine protein composition and stability
• IPM using playback against pests

EUROPE & THE UK

• Elise Losfelt confirmed as new Charles Heidsieck cellar master

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• China revises wine labelling regulations to protect domestic manufacturers

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• Skip Marathon du Médoc and join Marathon du Beaujolais

BEER, CIDER, WINE & SPIRITS

• Key Findings from the 2023 Direct-to-Consumer Beer Shipping Report