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  "name": "Calera selection",
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  "origin": "California"
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  "what": "Cuttings Josh Jensen is said to have brought back from Burgundy in the mid-1970s, planted on Mount Harlan and passed around California since. Growers who plant it say so on the label.",
  "story": "*Tradition holds —* the cuttings came from the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. That story is told widely, including by people who bought the plant material; documentation for the specific source is another matter."
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   "as": "The practice, and its grey areas.",
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 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "Cuttings Josh Jensen is said to have brought back from Burgundy in the mid-1970s, planted on Mount Harlan and passed around California since. Growers who plant it say so on the label.",
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   "key": "california",
   "name": "California",
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   "note": "from Anderson Valley to the Santa Maria bench, wherever fog reaches"
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   "type": "producer",
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   "kind": "book",
   "title": "The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir",
   "author": "Marq de Villiers",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins",
   "year": 1993
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   "id": "s:haeger-north-american",
   "kind": "book",
   "title": "North American Pinot Noir",
   "author": "John Winthrop Haeger",
   "publisher": "University of California Press",
   "year": 2004
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