TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Status on 105 wineries (and wine businesses): Good, bad or gone – UPDATED 3:05 p.m., Oct. 18
• Firefighters expect full containment on Wine Country wildfires by Friday
• Wildfire smoke continues to hurt air quality in Napa, Bay Area
• Napa Valley Winemakers Optimistic as Region Begins to Recover
• Wineries begin to reopen amid harvest struggles
• After staggering losses in California firestorm, officials expect state's largest debris-removal effort ever
• Dr. Tom Collins seeks samples of wines with smoke taint or suspected to be tainted, for chemical and sensory evaluation
• Legal hotline created for fire victims
• Six Misconceptions About Smoke Taint
• At least 30 cannabis farms destroyed in Northern California wildfires

WINE SUPPLY & CONSUMPTION

• Promising Napa Valley vintage turns tragic as fires continue
• Aussie wine export growth continues as Chinese market soars
• North Dakota grapes see successful harvest despite drought
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• Officials again warn drone owners: Don’t fly over wildfires
• California's out-of-control wildfires have burned an area larger than New York City

• Evacuation orders lifted for Monticello, Wild Horse Valley and Dry Creek roads in Napa

• Farms, vineyards assessing damage from wine country fires
• Wildfires worsen housing crunch in famously costly Bay Area

• ‘Insurance villages’ pop up for Wine Country fire claims

• The Effects of Bottle Aging on Smoke Taint Characteristics in Wine
• After the Fires, What Will Become of California’s Wine Crop?
• California's wildfires could make 2017 a very unusual wine vintage
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• IRS Gives Tax Relief to Victims of California Wildfires; Extension Filers Have Until Jan. 31 to File
• Unemployment assistance available for workers impacted by fires
• Free Marin Financial Planning Day

• Trailers could house those displaced by fires in California wine country
• Stags Leap District releases Appellation Collection, $100 from each collection funds Napa Valley Community Foundation’s Fire Relief
• Vintage 99 Label Partners with WineCountryStrong.org to Raise $100,000 for Fire Victims
• Mid-Peninsula cities offer help to victims of Wine Country fires
• Bookstores offer refuge from Wine Country wildfires

• Snopes actually has to tell people the Wine Country fires weren't started by Mexican drug cartels