TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Napa County supervisors send Caldewell winery back to Planning Commission
• Napa County approves Kenefick Ranch winery near the Calistoga Palisades
• Corporate Raid or Love Story? This Treasured Sonoma Winery Just Sold to a Champagne House
• David Mowforth has been appointed by Ferrari-Carano Vineyards and Winery as the director of on-premises national accounts
• Distinguished Vineyards Named James Beard Wine Partner
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• Sonoma County Vintners Foundation Adds to Sonoma Flood Relief Efforts

• Pairing Wine & Weed: Sonoma Wine Industry Embraces Cannabis
• Keep 'em separated: Cannabis, hemp cross-pollination problem blows into California regulation
• ‘This crop will change California.’ Can an Oakdale group make hemp a major cash crop?
• More California attorneys move into cannabis law, as state-federal tension remains
• 3 Compliance Risks Cannabis Dispensary Owners Can Eliminate Right Now
• Invivo founders to expand into cannabis drinks

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DROUGHT/WATER

• Ending the drought — in water data
• It Took a While, But California Is Now Almost Completely Out of Drought
• President Signs Garamendi’s Delta National Heritage Area Act Into Law
• Metropolitan Board steps up to support Drought Contingency Plan; protects Southland’s stored water in Lake Mead
• Why It’s Important to Prepare for Drought During a Deluge

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• So long, and remember how good we have it — thanks, in part, to wine
• Mountain Tides succeeds with one grape (Petite Sirah), inaugurated with Clements Hills-Lodi fruit
• Why Your Red Wine Tastes Green
• Natural Wine’s New Dark Horse Darling
• Let's awamori! Okinawa's native drink finds a home in San Francisco

• The World Of Winemaking With Passalacqua Winery's Jessica Boone
• Five Questions for Kaylyn Kirkpatrick

• Mount Etna: Italy’s most exciting new wine region

• Six new Masters of Wine

• UK: Plumpton College announces Chris Foss’ retirement
• 'The Lancet' Has Gotten Really Weird

• Costly 'grey mould' the centre of promising wine grape research
• Single and multiple phenotype QTL analyses of downy mildew resistance in interspecific grapevines
• Yeast Assimilable Nitrogen (YAN) Optimization for Cool-Climate Riesling
• Measuring bunch rot impact on wine quality
• Spotted Lanternfly Basics for Grape and Apple Industries (video)
• The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Creating March Madness.
• This is fine: Wine additives, just passing through

• Tuscan wine group saves Chianti cooperative from bankruptcy
• Bibendum counteracts the “vanilla” effect of the Conviviality machine
• Ex-Pernod director joins Amber Beverage as CMO
• France’s famous wine marathon is open for registration

• OZ: Brown Family Wine Group eyes Prosecco growth in 2019

• South Africa: Farm dwellers dump rubbish at gate to wine farm

• 15 remarkable drinks-related discoveries (slideshow)

• Table Olive Consumption Has Doubled Since 1999

• Vietnamese brewer records remarkable comeback on ThaiBev balance sheet
• UK: SIBA blasts new guidelines that limit craft beer to 4 units per can
• The Changing Face and Expanding Reach of Irish Whiskey