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California's 2011 Harvest Drags On

Checking in with California vintners still waiting to harvest their 2011 grape crop
Posted: Oct 27, 2011 2:00pm ET

Harvest 2011 is ending up more labor than labor of love in most parts of California.

"What a crazy year," Helen Keplinger of Keplinger and Bryant Family Vineyard, both based in Napa Valley, wrote in an e-mail yesterday. "Indeed it has been very stressful and those rains were less than ideal, but not all has been lost and there will be good wines made this vintage."

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