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California Odds & Ends
Harvest is fully under way in California. These are a handful of wines that have come across my desk in between major articles.
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- 2010
- Focus on California's North Coast (May 2010)
- 2009
- Focus on California's North Coast (May 2009)
- 2008
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- 2007
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- 2003
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- 2001
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- 2000
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- 1999
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