Home Afternoon Brief Afternoon Brief, October 1 Afternoon Brief Afternoon Brief, October 1 By Editor - October 1, 2020 116 0 Advertisement THURSDAY, OCTOBER 01 TRENDING STORY Grape and Bulk Market Activity Increases as Wineries Seek Ways to Supplement a Smaller, Smoke Plagued Vintage The Lightning Complex, or LMU fire, came earlier this year than Sonoma and Napa had experienced in recent years, so many of the vineyards had hanging fruit. A few whites had been harvested and early ripening Pinot Noir but those harvests were in the minority… TODAY’S NEWS We’ll Make It Even Better: A Q&A with Meadowood Co-Owner Bill Harlan The Napa vintner discusses the fire damage to his resort and his plans for the future… How to Calculate Wine Grape Smoke Damage Payable Loss for Crop Insurance Claims Wildfires and the lingering smoke produced are a continuing threat to wine grape producers. Let’s look at how federal crop insurance covers this peril?… The Next 48 Hours May Shape Napa Valley for Years to Come At 9:32 AM this morning, the Napa County Office of Emergency Services issued its latest set of evacuation warnings in the face of the Glass Incident, a fire which has consumed more than 48,000 acres and continues to burn nearly uncontained in the heart of Napa County and over the mountains into Sonoma County… Can California’s Wine Country Survive the Climate Crisis? National Consumers League Releases Report Examining Sustainability, Consumer Choice, and Confusion in Food and Beverage Packaging Maryland Poll Shows Strong Support for Supermarket Beer and Wine Sales Around the World with Texas White Wine October Merlot Month Engages Millions of Wine Drinkers Could US Wine, Rum and Vodka Face EU Tariffs? Constellation’s Sales Slip 5% In Fiscal First Half, but Profits Stay Positive Why Is One of Champagne’s Biggest Groups Breaking Up? Early Burgundy Vintage Confounds Expectations Chianti Classico and Eataly Announce New Partnership Breweries in California’s Wine Country Grapple with Wildfires BLOGS Disruption of Lives from the Coronavirus Disrupts Napa Valley Agriculture Living Through Wartime Bordeaux Online Wine Shopping Continues to Increase in Germany New CA Work Comp Reporting Rules for COVID Outbreaks Thru 2022 Film Review: Wine Crush WINEINDUSTRY.JOBS HR Manager Recruiting Associates Network – American Canyon, CA, USA Heavy Equipment Operator Wilson Vineyards – Cloverdale, CA, USA Club Member Manager Coldani Family Winery & Olive Ranch – Lodi, CA, USA More Wine Industry Jobs PEOPLE How Microagressions in a Sonoma Winery Made a Black Winemaker Question Her Profession Boordy Vineyards’ Founder Remembered for His Wine, Nursery and Significance to the Industry Wine Critic Owen Bargreen Launches OwenBargreen.com Ravago Chemicals Welcomes Blake Bomben to the Fermented Beverages Division News Alert: Stoli Group Names Damian Mckinney Global CEO SUPPLIER NEWS Wine Label Facestock Choices and Their Customization Options Wine Scholar Guild Launches New Foundation-Level Programming on the Wines of Italy How to Manage a Small Label Project – Let Vintage 99’s Short Run Digit Ease the Pain How Does Your Dirt Stack Up? Find Out by Entering the 2020 Harvest Terroir Challenge More Supplier News VINEYARD & WINERY Wineries Burn, but Places Endure: After Cain Is Destroyed, New Reasons for Hope News from Aratas Wine of Napa Valley – It Speaks to Our Collective Sadness Meiomi Wines Expands Award-Winning Portfolio with First-Ever Cabernet Sauvignon Lytle-Barnett Rises to the Champenoise Challenge Valot Goes “Bare” with Nation’s First White Malbec Advertisement