Afternoon Brief, August 7

TRENDING STORY
If You Can’t Bring Americans to the Winery, Bring the Tasting Room to Them
With airfare reaching record highs, some wineries are embracing the economic advantage of running tasting rooms closer to where their drinkers live…
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TODAY’S NEWS
BeatBox Is Turning Anheuser-Busch into a Top ‘Wine’ Seller
Only five years ago, chilled, low-alcohol wine coolers entered the market. Today, coolers – blends of white wine, carbonated water and fruit juice, concentrate and sometimes free-floating pulp – are perhaps the hottest alcoholic beverage around…
Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Bulk Market Remains Slow Despite Shatter
Is this year’s shatter helping move bulk Napa Cabernet Sauvignon inventory? Grape and bulk wine brokers say it hasn’t yet had a significant effect on the bulk wine market; it’s still a slow market, even for this iconic varietal…
Farewell to Pinot Pioneer David Hirsch
Always in the pursuit of balance, we say goodbye to one of Sonoma’s great winemaking pioneers…
Hall Wines Modernizes Four-Brand Wine Club Experience with Shopify and Awtomic
New Report Finds Sustainability Implemented at Scale Across California Wine Sector
Oregon Wine Board’s Executive Director Resigns
Pour Now Launches Insights: A Candid, Data-Backed Look at How Alcohol Shoppers Actually Buy
Wineries Come Together for “Among the Vines: A Central Oregon Winemakers Tasting”
Wineries Aim to Overcome Sales Slump, Canadian Cold Shoulder with New Approach to Funding Marketing
Chain Reaction: How New Recycling Laws Are Influencing Closure Choice
Record-Breaking $2.65 Million Raised at 47th Annual l’Eté du Vin for the Fight Against Cancer
Wine Writer Matthew Jukes Dies Aged 58
French Winemakers Worry About ‘Smoky Taste’ After Wildfires
Wildfires Scorch Wine Tourism in Bordeaux
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WINE INDUSTRY CAREERS
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INDUSTRY EVENTS
eCellar’s The Pulse: What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You with Melina Palmer
August 12 – Webinar
Season of Selling: Maximizing DTC & Club Revenue Across Channels
August 13 – Webinar
GenNow Social
August 13 – Santa Rosa, CA
Pour + Explore: Rosé & Aromatic Whites
August 20 – Geyserville, CA
2026 Wine Club Symposium
September 15-16 – Webinar
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TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
US Beverage Alcohol – 2026 Mid-Year Update
RNDC Court Filings Reveal Scale of Distributor’s Financial Collapse
What Matters Most Over the Next 12 to 18 Months — And Who’s Already Acting on It?
Winery That Rose from the Ashes of Napa Wildfire Faces Foreclosure 2 Years After Reopening
Is the Wine Crisis Just Another Phase?
Can Vineyard ‘Mothballing’ Help Growers Weather Wine Market Collapse?
Rhonda Carano, Wine Entrepreneur and Wife of Don Carano, Dies at 72
Spokane Fire Fears for Washington Wine
Napa Wine Compliance Costs Near 18% of Production
Quilceda Creek Acquires Full Ownership of Historic Champoux Vineyard
New Wine Market Council Study Unlocks the Future of Wine Communication Across Generations
The 2026 Sustainable Ag Expo Program Is Here
PlumpJack Pits Screwcap Against Cork
vinSuite Announces 2026 Wine Club Symposium, a Free Event Built to Strengthen the Wine Club Community
Muscardini Cellars Owner Michael Muscardini Dies at 75, Remembered as a ‘Visionary’
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