TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Rumours of Diageo and SABMiller merging
• Bayer issues fungicide warning for wine grape growers, pending crop investigation
• Conviviality Retail confirms £200m deal to buy Matthew Clark
• Capital Bordeaux Investments director gets 11 year ban
• 19 celebrate MW passes
• TTB Compliance can be simpler. Here’s how. *Sponsored Link*

• What’s really at stake if the China-Australia FTA falls through

• Washington wine harvest fast, furious, fantastic
• The Colorado Wine Industry Anticipates a Robust 2015 Harvest Season
• California Harvest Arrives Ahead of Schedule
• Sonoma County vintners expecting smaller harvest
• Bordeaux 2015 - harvest update
• Prosecco harvest report
• 2015 – it's all starting to kick off in the Loire
• Harvest time varies in Southern Arizona's wine country
• It’s wine harvest time in Monterey County
• Old Vines: In the Rhône Valley, it’s Not a Marketing Slogan, it’s Saving the 2015 Vintage

• Calistoga wine tasting rooms must diversify
• Napa County winery growth committee gets a mixed report card
• In California, pricey wines cost the environment, too
• Activists, farmworkers remember Delano grape strike, 50 years later
• Sonoma County a great place to start a business
• City Winery in Napa to close by year's end
• No room for extremes in tribe debate
• Future of Lytton tribe’s land is not inevitable
• How to Grow A Grapevine: Exploring California’s Largest Vine Nursery
• Paso Robles vineyard violates state runoff regulations in well-drilling
• Unity Bank Ready to Help Vineyards & Wineries Finance Red Blotch Replanting
• USA Trade Tasting Is Now 95% Sold Out. Only Few Spots Left. Book Now! *Sponsored Link*

• 192 drought maps reveal just how thirsty California has become
• Water Woes Come to a Head in Sonoma
• North Dakota judge clarifies 13-state WOTUS ruling
• Less water might be plenty for California, experts say, and conservation is only the start
• Technology can quench California’s thirst
• AB 954 needed to better meet drought-impacted Californians’ needs and help create drought-resilient rural communities
• Water and Power: The place that still has water
• In a Drought-Stricken Future, Sugar-Embedded Products Might Save Us

• 10 things you need to know about getting more likes and followers on social media

• Are wine writers and critics journalists or whiners? (Pun intended)
• Bloggers: Go big or go home
• Young wine writers: don't be too smart
• Follow up - Young wine writers: be as brilliant as you can

• When Wine Tasting Becomes a Party
• Vintage variation open for debate
• Mega winemaking as craft
• Why GMO viticulture isn’t such a big deal
• Sulfite misunderstandings and unfounded beliefs
• New grapes from Old World draw growers, consumers
• No Need to Care About Wine Industry Consolidation
• The Wine Time Capsule from 2015
• Natural wine: It's unfiltered and unrefined - and could make hangovers a thing of the past
• Filtering wine one way doesn't mean it's the only way. Click now to see the alternatives *Sponsored Link*

• African Americans shake up wine industry stereotypes
• Louis-Antoine Luyt: Vine Archeologist And Winemaker
• Isik Gulcubuk winemaker at Kastro Tireli in Izmir, Turkey
• Fabian Yukich and George Fistonich: Organic wine makers
• Ex-Selfridges buyer Davies among record number of new Masters of Wine
• June Rodil of the McGuire Moorman Hospitality Group (podcast)
• Taylor Hannegan, Client Services Guru at ShipCompliant

• Abrau-Durso: Russia’s Wine Hideaway
• Seeking Wine Balance at a Napa Icon
• A rising champion of Verdicchio reaches for the heights of elegance
• Alsace, Where French and German Cultures Converge
• Portuguese wine hotels: From Alentejo to the Douro Valley
• The enduring allure of Italy’s Veneto countryside
• Why You Must Visit Castelfalfi, Italy, This Fall

• Oregon wine industry continues record-setting pace
• How to deal with the diversity of Canada’s 13 provincial wine markets
• 5 things to know about New Jersey wine

• Agricultural sustainability is not possible without economic vitality
• Climate Change vs Wine: A Snapshot of Year 2050

• DuPont Receives EPA Approval For New Fungicide
• Biodiversity of indigenous saccharomyces cerevisiae: a distinctive resource for wineries?
• Genomics research to benefit wine and biodiversity
• Potential alternatives for bentonite

• Systembolaget remains a powerful force in fostering trends such as organic and sparkling wine
• Champagne bubble: the rise of the small producer
• European spirits body welcomes court statement on minimum pricing for alcohol
• Barton & Guestier Rebounds With Upmarket Shift
• Greek wine over a barrel

• Australia's alcohol warning labels a bit blurry
• Wine Marlborough board members stepping down
• New Zealand Pinot Noir finds fans in France
• Australian wine industry agrees on tackling wine sector downturn
• OZ: Tourism spend on wine rises
• Bid to teach Chinese more about NZ wines
• Marlborough wine leaders visit China

• Are MWs the new Lafite in China?
• Helan Qing Xue in Ningxia Marks a Decade of Making Wine
• India's Wine Production May Reach 21 Million Litres By 2018

• Chilean wineries react to drought

• Winemaking in Lebanon ‘more dangerous’ than ever

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