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Few '98 California Cabs Still Shine
Rainy, damp, cold weather isn't Cabernet weather, yet that's what shaped the 1998 vintage in California. One of the coolest vintages of the past quarter-century, with the devastating weather of El Niño bringing torrents of rain, it was the only year in the 1990s that failed to produce an abundance of great Cabernets.
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