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PREMIUM California’s wine industry: on the road to recovery
Last year, the Golden State’s wine industry suffered the double impacts of Covid-19 and devastating wildfires. Our correspondent in California, Matthew Luczy, asked local producers how they’ve coped so far and what they predict for the future of this great state A helicopter tackling the Bobcat Fire near Los Angeles in 2020 Credit: USFS Photo / Alamy Stock Photo
Across multiple industries, the last year was the most financially, logistically and emotionally trying year in recent history. No one made it through unscathed, but few sectors were as dramatically affected as wine and hospitality. Constraints from the Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant economic collapse