TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• California Alcoholic Beverage Legislative Update
• Napa County Planning Commission approves 'modest' Gargiulo Vineyards expansion
• San Luis Obispo County: the Little County that Could
• Alcoholic Beverage Importers and Distributors Conference To Happen With USA Trade Tasting*Sponsored Link*

• New evacuations continue as massive Thomas fire flares up, moves into Santa Barbara County
• California’s Wildfires This Year Have Been Breaking Records
• Rupert Murdoch's wine is going to be all right

• Furious shoppers say Whole Foods' produce has turned 'depressing,' 'barren,' and 'bone-dry' — and they blame Amazon

DROUGHT/WATER

• Cracks, clogged drains, broken valves among litany of problems at California's dams
• Break the law, or let your cattle die? A Los Banos dairy farmer had to make choice
• How California farmers can conserve water and combat climate change
• A Water Right for the Environment
• Neither bottom up nor top down.

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• OZ: Winery Lane founders looking at “hockey stick” sales growth as the specialty wine marketplace closes an $800,000 raise
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• You keep using that work Moonshine, but I don't think you know what it means
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