TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• California wildfire victims had personal data compromised by FEMA
• New To Kalon lawsuit asks familiar question: Is this Napa Valley vineyard too important to be trademarked?
• Napa County supervisors search for elusive watershed middle ground
• City of Sonoma to limit Plaza tasting rooms to 25
• Napa's Rise of the Machines
• On a 3-2 Planning Commission vote, O'Brien Estate winery cleans up Napa County code violations
• Napa planners meet halfway on Stone Brewing logo at Borreo Building
• New Executive Director of Graduate Business Programs at SSU
• On The Border Of Malibu A Winemaking Mother Recalls Challenges And Joy
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• Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom declares state wildfire emergency, citing 'extreme peril'
• California Works to Head off Another Season of Deadly Fires

• Increasing legalisation of marijuana will hit New Zealand wine industry, claims expert
• High times in Beverly Hills, with pot delivery and a Gucci ashtray

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DROUGHT/WATER

• NOAA warns of "unprecedented flood season" across U.S.
• Groundwater and agriculture: a comparison of managing scarcity and droughts in France and California
• After a prolonged cold and wet spell in California, warmer (but still unsettled) conditions to persist
• The shape of water: How agtech is making irrigation more efficient

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• Southern Oregon growers fight Willamette Valley wine purity proposals
• VA: Free Run Wine keeps focus on small, family-run wineries

• Dr. Andy Walker - Summer 2018 Update on Breeding PD Resistant Winegrapes (video)
• The past, present and future usages of head trained vines in Lodi
• Vineyards unleash high-tech drone to protect grapes from hungry birds
• Crushing It: Custom crush facilities let winemakers and craft distillers share resources and expertise.
• Custom Crush Necessities
• On the use of Micro-NIRS technology to evaluate wine extractable total phenolic and ellagitannin contents in revalorized cooperage byproducts: a feasibility study.

• Who's allowed to sell 'Macedonian wine'?
• Portugal antitrust body says top retail chains fixed drinks prices
• Celler Vall Llach: Started As A Social Project, Now Producing Award Winning Priorat Wine
• UK: Sainsbury’s Asda merger “unlikely” to impact consumer choice as supermarkets offer to unload 150 stores

• Australian farmers will benefit from protecting food names, EU says
• The international trends influencing Australia

• Relevance of Chilean wine in Japan starting to slow, survey suggests

• Taittinger launches Champagne train in London
• Germany's wine soccer team to play the Vatican

• Craft Spirits Market Leaders Begin To Emerge
• Seeing The Beer Wars In A Whole New Light
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