TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• From Petaluma Gap to the Sonoma Valley, wine appellations baffle some
• It’s time for California’s wine country to prepare for the next wildfire
• This Year’s IBWSS San Francisco Theme Is “Bulk Up Your Bottom Line” *Sponsored Link*

• The first cannabis, craft beer and wine tour from San Francisco to Sonoma County
• Marijuana Gives Health-Conscious Consumers Something Alcohol Cannot
• California cannabis landlords would get insured under new state deal
• Buying pot in Ontario in 2018 will be like buying booze in 1928
• Cannabis Drinks Expo Launched By Beverage Trade Network will bring the global Cannabis drinks industry into one roof. Get more information here. *Sponsored Link*

• Pressure Mounts to Solve California’s Toxic Farmland Drainage Problem
• Did Gov. Brown promise the Bay Area a new reservoir in exchange for Delta tunnels support?

• Instead of More Dams, Communities Turn to Reusing Wastewater

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• Drinks.Com sues WineDirect alleging substandard shipping service; WD countersues
• Commissaries to soon start selling beer, wine, DOD memo says
• Splash Wines ready to makes waves in the UK

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• EU Wants American Cheesemakers to Stop Using Names Like Gorgonzola, Feta, and Parmesan

• Washington State Wine Commission Seeks Your Input on Research
• Mexico: Wine industry launches campaign to boost production and consumption
• The Way to Chardonnay in Oregon
• OR: On the Up and Up and Up

• OR: Evenstads pledge $6 million to Linfield College's wine program
• UK: Plumpton launches A-level equivalent to boost English wine industry recruitment
• OZ: Scholarships set students on course for vintage careers

• How weather and climate impact the price of wine

• Early season vineyard disease management
• Billion-dollar tractor giant opening Blacksburg office, taps Virginia Tech to help develop robotic equipment

• Conviviality ‘victim of its own success’
• Producers Burst Cava's Bubble
• Sue Jones on the commercial potential of English wine
• Britain’s drinking habits revealed
• This is what the drinks industry is saying about Scotland's minimum unit pricing
• New direct London to Bordeaux train route planned

• OZ: Wine Victoria welcomes $4.1m state funding
• OZ: Winegrape appointment to ACCC committee
• OZ: Crackdown on illegal winery and brewery tours

• Japanese scientists make alcohol from wood

• New era of brewing? YCH Hops sees interest around proprietary Cryo Hops