TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Wine Business Institute gets big tech upgrade in new Sonoma State University center
• Family-owned company, FermRight Breathing Bungs, returns to Lodi, plans to expand
• Lodi Winegrape Commission expands its presence
• The growing wine industry is threatening California’s Napa Valley
• Napa County's Measure C and D campaign in six figures
• Ask the Vintners: Giving Back to the Community
• Sonoma: Goldridge RCD – A Opportunity Waiting to Happen for You, Wine Grape Growers
• Investors Eye PG&E After Power Lines Faulted for Smaller Fires
• A Guide to Improving Your Winery Website to Sell More Wine *Sponsored Link*

• Over 80% Of U.S. And Canadian Adults Support Some Form Of Legal Cannabis, New Survey Finds
• California measure to slash marijuana taxes suffers setback
• Cannabis Drinks Expo Launched By Beverage Trade Network will bring the global Cannabis drinks industry into one roof. Get more information here. *Sponsored Link*

• Whole Foods backs off mandatory GMO labeling

DROUGHT/WATER

• Wineries mull challenge to Washington Ecology rules
• South-of-Delta water allocations increased to 45 percent
• After Years of Skepticism, San Diego Supports Massive Water Project
• Lawsuit filed against Delta Stewardship Council over Delta Plan conveyance amendment
• Guest Species – What about the nonnative species we like?
• South Africa: Cape Town’s dams slowly fill to 24% after May’s rainfall
• Seattle on track for hottest May on record, should tie for driest

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• PA: Wineries celebrate 10 years of coveted AVA title with June trail

• MD: Ex-liquor board director sentenced in bribery scandal

• Winemakers head for higher ground as temperature increases force vignerons to rethink future
• The Soul of Soil at Troon Vineyards

• Managing vine water deficit with canopy height
• Using Steam on Your Barrels is the Best Way to Protect Against Wine Spoilage Yeasts

• Serge Dassault, French billionaire who ran aviation empire and owned wine estates in Bordeaux, dies at 93
• Albert Bichot III, the export evangelist in Burgundy, has passed away
• UK could be reaching 'peak Prosecco' as sales rise by lowest levels in six years
• Brexit indigestion: row brewing over call for UK laws to protect likes of cognac and feta
• UK: WSTA partners with Crimestoppers in fake booze crackdown
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• The Long Green Mile – An Enduring Life in Italy

• OZ: Garry Crittenden bows out his way
• OZ: House of Fine Wine exceeds Villa Maria expectations

• Alibaba shows off automated wine store in Hong Kong
• China on Course to Become World’s Second Largest Wine Market (podcast)

• Concha y Toro hits 100% recycling target
• Meet some coastal Chilean winemakers who are redefining wine

• South Africa’s wine farmers feeling the pressure, says Vinpro

• Kayra: making quality wine with Turkish grapes against the odds

• Incredible slow-motion photography reveals the hallucinatory beauty of sound in water — and whiskey

• Why Brewers Are Embracing Magnum Bottles
• Flowers and 'sours' among the hipster ideas brewing in the beer business