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• Economic toll of North Bay fires to be focus of March 2 conference
• Wine Country Weddings See Massive Downturn After North Bay Wildfires
• Sausalito vintner brings Spanish flair to Sonoma wines
• Shining a light on Sonoma’s women-owned wineries
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• Organic grocers dig in to survive Amazon–Whole Foods battlefield

• Farmers, fish advocates team up to save the salmon
• Reclamation announces initial water supply allocation for the Central Valley Project
• THE DELTA AND THE TRIBUTARIES, part 1: How the health of the headwaters affects California’s water system

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• Alberta shrugs off B.C. legal challenge on wine ban
• Idaho's Famous Potatoes Making Way For Idaho Grapes
• CO: Denver Winemakers Are Amphora-Aging Sparklers in a Suburban Strip Mall
• The Spotted Lanternfly Is Invading Pennsylvania, Threatening Fruit Growers

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• French winemakers up in arms over plan that could lead to health warnings on bottles
• UK: SITT masterclasses to deliver business focussed insights for indie and on-trade buyers
• Sweet wine is going out of fashion in France
• Portugal: Symingtons to build new winery for non-fortified wines
• Interpol deletes Pancho Campo (President of the Spain Wine School) from its database and recognizes his innocence
• Figuiére saw niche market for organic rosé 40 years before it became trendy

• OZ: Fruit fly outbreak 'a grave concern' for Tasmanian wineries, as more pests found in north

• Japanese wine and grape cultivation

• Resveratrol Launched Into South African Marketplace

• The fruits of war: two wineries of Lebanon

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