'So much uncertainty'

摘要

Drive-through pickups, online orders, club shipments.Wine might not be essential in the strictest sense, but people are still drinking plenty of it during this pandemic, andwineries are going to great lengths get their products to customers in 2020.The challenge for the U.S. wine industry is that COVID-19 dramatically shifted where consumers bought their wine, swapping grocery delivery or shipments for the usual sipping in restaurants and tasting rooms. Travel to wine country vanished."It's a huge retraction in the amount of wine all of us are used to moving," said Phil Cline, owner of Naches Heights Vineyards in Washington, in May. "There's so much uncertainty."