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 "id": "martin-ray",
 "type": "person",
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  "name": "Martin Ray",
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 "region": [
  "santa-cruz-mountains",
  "california"
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 "facets": {
  "role": "owner",
  "country": "United States"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Bought Paul Masson's mountain winery in 1936, sold it during the war, and spent the rest of his life above Saratoga making pinot noir and chardonnay when California was planting neither.",
  "story": "*Tradition holds —* Ray insisted on varietal bottlings with nothing blended in, at a time when 'burgundy' on a California label meant whatever was in the tank. The vineyard he planted is the source of the Mount Eden selection."
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 "blurb": "Bought Paul Masson's mountain winery in 1936, sold it during the war, and spent the rest of his life above Saratoga making pinot noir and chardonnay when California was planting neither.",
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   "key": "santa-cruz-mountains",
   "name": "Santa Cruz Mountains",
   "country": "United States",
   "note": "fault ridges either side of the range; Martin Ray's ground"
  },
  {
   "key": "california",
   "name": "California",
   "country": "United States",
   "note": "from Anderson Valley to the Santa Maria bench, wherever fog reaches"
  }
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   "to": "mount-eden",
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  },
  {
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   "type": "region",
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   "as": "The ridge he farmed.",
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  },
  {
   "to": "paul-masson-person",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Paul Masson",
   "as": "Whose winery he bought.",
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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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   "id": "s:wp-paul-masson",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Paul Masson",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=1338911",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355864523",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
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   "name": "Santa Cruz Mountains",
   "as": "Who kept pinot noir alive on this ridge through the 1940s and 1950s.",
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  },
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