Sparkling Spectrum: California sparkling wines offer wide variety and exceptional value

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Issue: December 31, 1995

December 31, 1995 Sparkling Spectrum California sparkling wines offer wide variety and exceptional value By James Laube The holidays are the peak drinking season for sparkling wine. California sparkling wine producers wish this was otherwise--that wine lovers would drink their offerings more often and not just focus on the stretch from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day when most of the sparking wine is bought and consumed.

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