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 "id": "merry-edwards",
 "type": "person",
 "names": {
  "name": "Merry Edwards",
  "sort": "Edwards, Merry"
 },
 "region": [
  "russian-river",
  "sonoma",
  "california"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "role": "winemaker",
  "country": "United States"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "One of California's first women to run a winery cellar, at Mount Eden in 1974, then at Matanzas Creek, then under her own name in the Russian River — where she also selected a pinot noir now propagated as her own."
 },
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  {
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   "as": "Where her own vineyards sit.",
   "rel": "region"
  },
  {
   "to": "massale-selection",
   "as": "How the selection bearing her name moves.",
   "rel": "practice"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:haeger-north-american"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  }
 },
 "confidence": "low",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "One of California's first women to run a winery cellar, at Mount Eden in 1974, then at Matanzas Creek, then under her own name in the Russian River — where she also selected a pinot noir now propagated as her own.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "russian-river",
   "name": "Russian River Valley",
   "country": "United States",
   "note": "fog up the river valley, and the AVA that taught California what pinot could do"
  },
  {
   "key": "sonoma",
   "name": "Sonoma County",
   "country": "United States",
   "note": "Russian River, the true coast, Carneros' western half"
  },
  {
   "key": "california",
   "name": "California",
   "country": "United States",
   "note": "from Anderson Valley to the Santa Maria bench, wherever fog reaches"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "to": "russian-river-valley",
   "type": "region",
   "name": "Russian River Valley",
   "as": "Where her own vineyards sit.",
   "rel": "region"
  },
  {
   "to": "massale-selection",
   "type": "practice",
   "name": "Massal selection",
   "as": "How the selection bearing her name moves.",
   "rel": "practice"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "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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   "tier": "tradition"
  }
 },
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  {
   "from": "russian-river-valley",
   "type": "region",
   "name": "Russian River Valley",
   "as": "Who made wine here and put her name on a clone selection.",
   "rel": "person"
  }
 ]
}