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  "santa-lucia-highlands",
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  "california"
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  "country": "United States",
  "level": "ava",
  "established": 1992
 },
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  "what": "Terraces on the east face of the Santa Lucia range, above the Salinas Valley floor. The wind comes up the valley every afternoon hard enough to shape the canopy."
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   "note": "Monterey down to Santa Barbara, an AVA large enough to hold several climates"
  },
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   "key": "california",
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   "note": "from Anderson Valley to the Santa Maria bench, wherever fog reaches"
  }
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  },
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   "to": "santa-maria-valley",
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   "as": "Another Central Coast valley that runs the wrong way and gets away with it.",
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   "note": "the AVA list, each section carrying the Federal Register citation that established it; harvested into data/harvest/ava.json"
  },
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   "title": "Santa Lucia Highlands AVA",
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   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=15414637",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355926056",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
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