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California grape growers can’t sell their harvest as wine sales fall
KQED talks to growers in the vineyards; the numbers show how fast drinking habits are reshaping farmland.
Wine sales have fallen more than 20% over five years, and growers have taken roughly a quarter of California’s vineyards out of production. KQED reports Lodi-area growers leaving grapes unpicked and tearing out vines for almonds, pistachios and olives.
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California wine
After exploring California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops, for how the industry got this big, read California wine.
The history of California winemaking since Spanish missionaries planted vines in the late 1700s.
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