09/25/20 Winemakers Face Up to Smoke Taint Reality Multiple brands - including Neal Family Vineyards, Big Basin Vineyards, St. Supéry, Somerston Estate, Lamborn Family Vineyards, Trombetta Wines, O'Connell Family Wines, Terra de Promissio, Pfendler Vineyards, Smith Story Wine Cellars and others - have already decided to forgo some of even all of their harvest.

09/25/20 UC's effort to bring data to the vineyard is aimed at improving crop health and yield Mason Earles with the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, wants to apply big data by merging agricultural and machine learning to glean information that will improve vineyard health and productivity. Such a unit is undergoing testing during and should be ready for real field work by harvest time next season.

09/25/20 UC Davis Establishes Research, Training in Cultivated Meat "The societal need is to feed 9 billion people," said principal investigator David Block, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology and professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. "What we want to know is, will cultivated meat be a viable supplement to traditional agriculture?"

09/25/20 Nielsen's COVID-19 On Premise Impact Report Evaluates Velocity Of the 5 states analyzed, only Illinois and California experience growth in velocity in the week to September 19 vs September 12.

09/25/20 There are 88 Restaurants on The San Francisco Chronicle's annual Top 100 Restaurants list The revamped list less about full-service dining and more about what each restaurant or pop-up on the list has been up to since March.

09/25/20 San Francisco, on cusp of advancing in tiered reopening, will let restaurants serve indoors soon "Restaurants have been hit hard by COVID-19," Mayor London Breed said in a news release. "Many have adapted with takeout and outdoor dining, but they've still been barely hanging on and, sadly, some have closed for good."

09/25/20 Restaurants could be violating WARN Act - here's what you need to know The prolonged partial shutdown of restaurants tied to COVID-19 could trigger a WARN Act notice; one provision of the law protects employees who have experienced reduced hours for six months.

09/25/20 13 Wine Destinations for Outdoor Dining in New York City These Wine Spectator Restaurant Award winners offer superior wine lists in charming outdoor settings

09/25/20 'Lemonade out of lemons': Distillery turns smoke-tainted wine grapes into purposefully smoky grappa An uplifting epilogue to last year's smoke taint saga, in this week's Drinking with Esther newsletter

09/25/20 Google services including Gmail YouTube and Hangouts CRASH but tech giant dismisses meltdown as 'short disruption' Monitor "Downdetector" confirmed the multi-platform outage at roughly 9pm.

09/25/20 Man who drove into California protesters used vineyard as 'tactical training camp,' officials say According to the federal complaint, Hung stayed in San Marino, near Pasadena, and Lodi, south of Sacramento, where his family has a vineyard. The complaint describes the vineyard as a "tactical training camp" and shooting range that Hung and others planned on using

09/25/20 Constellation Brands Continuing To Leverage Its High-Value Portfolio Through The Pandemic With $1 billion sale of several wine brands to Gallo, Constellation should have the wine and spirits business "right-sized" and focused on higher-value properties.

09/25/20 One in a Thousand Winemakers Is Black. These Men Are Working to Close the Industry's Gap. They defied the ostracizing customs of a glaringly white wine world to become its leaders. More will follow.

09/25/20 Rémy Cointreau : No turn-around in sight Shares in Rémy Cointreau show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term. The timing to jump back on the rising trend seems good.

09/25/20 Dan Berger On Wine: Lightstruck - The problem with clear wine bottles Should the marketing of a wine jeopardize its quality? If so, something is upside-down.

09/25/20 Artist Shantell Martin Ponders Legal Action After a Wine Brand Allegedly Stole Her Work for Its Label Bodegas San Huberto appears to have directly copied a mural Martin created for a 2017 show at the Albright-Knox in Buffalo.

09/25/20 Wine Writers Celebrate Sustainability This year's wine writing competition on JancisRobinson.com shone a light on the producers championing sustainable practices any way they can.

09/25/20 Bay Area faces weekend of critical fire weather with 100-degree temps, dry winds After a cool and mild work week, summer-like heat with triple-digit temperatures are in the weekend forecast and into next week. Hot, desiccating winds are also expected to kick up, creating the perfect recipe for critical wildfire weather.

09/25/20 President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree on the introduction of Winegrower and Winemaker's Day in Ukraine. The president stated this in a speech at the presentation of the Strategy for Development of Zakarpattia region, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.

09/25/20 Lebanon Needs You to Buy Its Wines. And, Yes, They're Really Good Making wine here has never been easy. But with every bottle exported, a bit of hope and resilience follows the disaster in Beirut.