Home Afternoon Brief Afternoon Brief, December 28th Afternoon Brief Afternoon Brief, December 28th By Editor - December 28, 2020 546 0 Advertisement MONDAY, DECEMBER 28 TRENDING STORY Coastal Winegrape Market Won’t Return to Normal Until 2023-24 As the president of Allied Grape Growers, a cooperative of over 450 grape growers in California, Jeff Bitter has had a challenging year….like much of the wine producing community… TODAY’S NEWS Wildfires Threaten the Bread and Butter of Napa Valley: Tourism and Wine Production – What Now? The Glass Fire — one of two wildfires to have ravaged Napa County this year — may have cost Napa Valley’s wine industry as much as $1 billion in losses… Studying Red Blotch Virus in Vineyards Product Shortages Worsen: What’s Causing Them? Gallo’s Golden Quest to Conquer Cognac Champagne Shakes Off the Dust of 2020 Argentina’s Winemakers Look to Premiumize the Category Official Endorsement and Geo-Oenological Studies in the Pipeline for ‘Volcanic Wine’ Wine Unfazed by Threat of Dry January Time in a Bottle: How Age Can Improve Wine Appreciation BLOGS Top Five 2021 Predictions from Brian Rosen, BevStrat How the Future of Age Verification Tech Will Impact Retailers The Ten Words That Defined Wine in 2020 Dan Berger: Wine Prose That Animates Lifeless Liquids Drinks Packaging Trends to Look Out for in 2021 WINEINDUSTRY.JOBS Wine Club Sales Manager Tobias Glen Vineyard – Anywhere (Remote) Customer Service Logistics Recruiting Associates Network – American Canyon, CA, USA Mobile Services Technician ATPGroup – Windsor, California, USA More Wine Industry Jobs PEOPLE Paolo Foradori, a Pioneer in Wine from Alto Adige, Passes Away 10 Industry Leaders’ New Year’s Resolutions Lockdown Stories – View from the Vines Family of Wine — How a Creative Son Keeps the Pisonis’ California Legacy Going A Chat with Maria Testa Martinson of Testa Vineyards SUPPLIER NEWS Placer Process Added-Value Solution to Minimize Process Contamination New Year, New Digital Marketing Efforts The Power of Data for Efficient Wine Filtration Lisse Waiter’s Corkscrew from Franmara More Supplier News VINEYARD & WINERY Portland Cider Co. Rings in the New Year with Bubbly Brut, a Brand New Effervescent Cider Great Northwest Wine: Oregon and Washington Combine for 10 on Wine Spectator’s Top 100 of 2020 Charles Heidsieck Revives a Unique Champagne Willamette Valley’s Bryn Mawr Vineyards Retains Palmateer Wine Group Winning Wines: Sierra Foothills in Spotlight at 2020 Harvest Challenge Advertisement