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Wildfire's Legacy Worries Santa Cruz Winemakers

By Stett Holbrook
Good Times Santa Cruz | August 27, 2009
For Santa Cruz Mountain winegrowers, the Lockheed fire that burned 7,800 acres of wild lands above Bonny Doon recently came at exactly the wrong time. Of course there’s never a good time for a wildfire, but the grapes in local vineyards are starting to ripen, a developmental stage called veraison, and they’re particularly vulnerable to “smoke taint.”
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