|  In the 1960’s and ‘70’s, if you asked what the Number One cash agricultural crop in California was, the answer would have been the profitable--(but illegal)--cannabis sativa. Now numero uno is the grape. 477,000 acres are devoted to growing wine grapes and filling the contents of 2.7 billion bottles.
Editorial by: Sheila Rand
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| When going out to dine in a restaurant, we generally don’t bring along our own entrée or dessert. Yet many restaurants permit patrons to bring their own wine, for which there is generally a “corkage fee,” the charge per bottle added to your bill as a “service fee.” Editorial by: Shirley Saint-Leon |
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| “Wow, this wine has really good legs. It must be a great wine.”
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|  Hanging out in wine places often, I hear comments like this regularly, and I can only smile a bit and wonder if I should say something to correct this myth.
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