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Sizing Up Harvest 2008 in California

Posted: Dec 8, 2008 6:03pm ET

We editors at Wine Spectator are putting together a global overview of vintage 2008. In California it has appropriately been labeled a year of extremes – drought, hard frost, odd set, staggered ripening, heat spikes at harvest for some grapes and then, when all was said and done, a pretty good vintage in terms of quality.

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