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  "oregon"
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   "key": "willamette",
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   "note": "a hundred miles of valley floor and volcanic hills south of Portland"
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  {
   "key": "oregon",
   "name": "Oregon",
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   "rel": "whole"
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   "to": "ribbon-ridge",
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   "title": "27 CFR part 9 — American Viticultural Areas",
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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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   "id": "s:wp-yamhill-carlton-ava",
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   "title": "Yamhill-Carlton AVA",
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   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=6485102",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361937775",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
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  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited"
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   "tier": "cited"
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   "label": "US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau",
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   "url": "",
   "year": 2004,
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  },
  {
   "from": "willamette-valley",
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