TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Chaos and Measure C Crooks in Napa Wine Country
• Napa's controversial Measure C: What effects on Napa Valley agriculture?
• Stag's Leap's Vineyard to Vintner and Jim Regusci: Tales from the front lines of the October wildfires
• This Year’s IBWSS San Francisco Theme Is “Bulk Up Your Bottom Line” Sponsored Link*

• Napa County District Attorney will process Proposition 64 petitions for marijuana-related convictions
• In 1933, the Wrong Drug Was Legalized
• The price of weed in California could be cut in half by legalization
• Cannabis Drinks Expo Launched By Beverage Trade Network will bring the global Cannabis drinks industry into one roof. Get more information here. *Sponsored Link*

• Amazon Q1 2018 Grocery Sales Up YoY 48% in US, 45% in UK and 33% in Germany, According to One Click Retail
• Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots

DROUGHT/WATER

• Voters OK'd billions for new reservoirs in 2014. California is about to start spending
• Reclamation updates 2018 Central Valley Project water allocations

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• Pernod Ricard announces Graduate Program Intake

• Luxury Wine Tourism Goes Digital With Wine Paths

• Wine is struggling for attention in a UK restaurant sector experiencing a “perfect storm” of adverse trading conditions

• Labor Shortage, Mechanization Among Research Funded by Washington Wine Industry
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• Oregon's wine economy is expanding
• MN: Chankaska acquires mobile wine bottling operation

• VA: New AG School Teaches Secrets of Farming

• The urgent need to embrace new varieties
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• Finger on the pulse of Powdery Mildew

• ‘No deal’ Brexit risks disaster for food and drink industry
• UK wine industry is marching forward with WineGB
• Chapel Down reports strong 2017 sales driven by both its wine and beer busineses
• Seven Kentish wineries join forces to create The Wine Garden of England
• FRC may investigate Conviviality's accounting errors
• Armit Wines appoints new ‘head of London sales’
• Vindependents adds Eynsham Cellars to its list of members
• Burgundy finds new ways to tackle disease

• OZ: Winemakers cashing in on vegan-friendly 'revolution'

• South Africa: Tim James on the launch of the Certified Heritage Vineyard seal

• A note on Jancis Robinson's craft wine concerns
• New Belgium’s Belgian White Isn’t Brewed in Belgium, So They Hired an ‘Actual Belgian’