Home Afternoon Brief Afternoon Brief, December 14th Afternoon Brief Afternoon Brief, December 14th By Editor - December 14, 2020 96 0 Advertisement MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 TRENDING STORY Wine & Spirits Continue Premiumization, but Growth Eases As the key holiday-selling season began in earnest on Thanksgiving weekend, the off-premise alcoholic beverage market saw continued deceleration, coming off its growth highs of earlier in the year… TODAY’S NEWS Top 10 Wines of 2020 Revealed on WineSpectator.com Wine Spectator, the world’s leading authority on wine, today announced Marqués de Murrieta Rioja Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 2010 as the 2020 Wine of the Year… Self-Driving Farm Tractor Rolls into Service at California Vineyard An Alameda County winery has become the first customer to try out a major new improvement in high-tech farm equipment: the world’s first autonomous electric tractor… ASEV Adopts Hybrid Open Access Model Starting January 2021 The ASEV Board has confirmed that they will adopt a hybrid open access model for both ASEV journals: American Journal of Enology and Viticulture and Catalyst: Discovery into Practice, effective January 1, 2021… Idaho Wine Commission Drafts Social-Media Legislation New COVID-19 Restrictions Still Give Pennsylvania Wineries Some Room to Operate Back-to-Back Auctions Realize $5.5M: It’s Time to Consign French Police Swoop Nets Stolen Grands Crus Worth Millions ‘Thrilling’ Result for the Hospices de Beaune 2020 Auction Loire Wine Show Changes Dates and Combines with Fringe Events in 2021 Wines of Alentejo Sustainability Program (WASP) Drinks Business Green Award 2020 China’s Love Affair with Australian Wine Ends in a Messy Breakup Canberra Region Wine Stocks Are Drying Up as Record Numbers of Visitors Flock to Cellar Doors South Africa Now Has 300 Million Litres of Unsold Wine – Here’s How It Will Probably Play Out The World’s Best Bordeaux BLOGS Wine’s Problem with Old, White Men 5 Insights from Drizly’s November Sales Some Wine Industry Websites Track Their Visitors Egregiously COVID-19 and the Next Normal? A New Age for Wine Making Sure of Your Wine Insurance WINEINDUSTRY.JOBS Wine Club Sales Manager California Wineries & Vineyards – Anywhere (Remote) Maintenance and Service Supervisor ATPGroup – Windsor, California, USA Store Manager Moderne Barn Wine and Spirits – Armonk, NY, USA More Wine Industry Jobs PEOPLE Women Winemakers to Watch This 29-Year-Old Sommelier Is the Next Generation of Wine Meet the ‘New Guard’ of Natural Winemakers in Sonoma Valley Trefethen Family Vineyards Hires Robert Helmer as Chief Financial Officer How Carlton McCoy Is Shaping a New Wine Movement in Napa Valley SUPPLIER NEWS Resource Label Group Acquires Labels West Trimble Agriculture Digital Show Is Tomorrow! SevenFifty Announces Custom eCommerce Portals for Wholesale Alcohol Distributors Breakthru Beverage Delaware Announces Plans for State-of-the-Art Facility More Supplier News VINEYARD & WINERY Riondo Rosé Prosecco Doc Arrives on New Year’s Day Taylor Fladgate Harks Back to 1970 with Single Harvest Vintage Port Release Quintessential Wines Welcomes Champagne Palmer & Co. to Its Family Winery Portfolio on January 1st Castoro Cellars Named Environmental Winery of the Year A Sparkling First for California’s Angels & Cowboys Advertisement