Home Afternoon Brief Afternoon Brief, February 3rd Afternoon Brief Afternoon Brief, February 3rd By Editor - February 3, 2021 144 0 Advertisement WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 03 TRENDING STORY Big Names, Big Bottles for Napa Auction With its main fundraiser postponed by the pandemic, Napa Valley Vintners is running an online library auction starting next week that includes one of the most impressive group of Napa auction wines ever assembled… TODAY’S NEWS Vivino, the World’s Largest Wine App and Marketplace, Raises $155 Million in Series D Funding Vivino, the world’s most downloaded mobile wine app and largest online wine marketplace, has closed a $155m Series D funding round led by Swedish based investment firm Kinnevik with Sprints Capital accompanying as a new investor… Challenges Remain: Wine Industry Survives Pandemic and Smoke While COVID-19 quickly killed on-premise wine sales, the oversupply of grapes that growers flooded the markets with over the past decade was diminished… Wineries Face New Challenges Keeping Workers Safe During Pandemic Shutting down and staying home when the novel coronavirus pandemic hasn’t been an option for much of the wine industry… Class Action Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Consumers Who Purchased Weed Slayer Herbicide How the West’s Conflagrations Challenge Winemakers Wine Road Bringing Together Member Wineries to Give Visitors a Taste Something Special Sonoma State Celebrates 25 Years with the Wine Institute Oregon Wine Board Anticipates Fertile Year of Industry Growth RIT Professor Co-Designed Drone Imaging System That Can Determine Grape Farm Health Texas Legislator Files Bill to Allow Alcohol Sales on Sundays Italy’s Biggest Online Wine Retailer Posts €17 Million Rise in Revenue Australian Wine Exports Drop $210 Million in Two Months Wage Demands of Seasonal Staff Causes Trouble at the Tanks Ahead of New Zealand Wine Harvest The Catena Institute of Wine Publishes Groundbreaking Article in the Most Extensive Terroir Study of Any Varietal Wine BLOGS Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Trends to Try in 2021 Drizly Shows Favorable Laws and the Free Market Work We Knew What Was Missing in the Wine World–Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion–so We Set Out to Change It Kentucky DtC – Not Quite Ready On a Balloon and a Prayer: Bordeaux Grapples with Climate Change WINEINDUSTRY.JOBS Technical Customer Care Manager Recruiting Associates Network – Santa Rosa, CA, USA Quality and Production Assistant Recruiting Associates Network – Fairfield, CA, USA More Wine Industry Jobs PEOPLE Shannon Ridge Family of Wines Names Travis Proctor as Winemaker Talking Rhône Whites with Susan Tipton of Acquiesce Winery How a Super Bowl Champion Is Rewriting the Wine Concierge Playbook for a Younger, More Diverse Consumer Quini Appoints Danny Brager, Victor Giacomin and Dale Stratton to Advisory Board Q&A: Bob Betz MW SUPPLIER NEWS Vine-to-Bottle Software with 24/7 Support Enartis USA and Vintage Report Partner to Host Free Webinar “a Vintage Defined by Heat Waves.” The Wine Tech Insiders Podcast (Episode 1): Simple Hacks to Sell More Wine Dtc Wine Leadership Forum Launches Spring 2021 More Supplier News VINEYARD & WINERY A Winning Partnership Celebrated Winery L’Ecole No 41 Announces “Heritage by L’Ecole” Wine Bar Kuhlman Cellars Announces New Barrel to Bottle Wine Tasting Barefoot Celebrates and Supports Black Female Business Owners with the Return of the #Westanforher Campaign J.M. Da Fonseca Twin Vines to Join Share a Splash Wine Co.’s Stable Advertisement