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News from California throughout the 2020 harvest season was overwhelmingly focused on devastation: record heat waves, uncontrollable wildfires, burned vineyards, smoke tainted wines, and shuttered tasting rooms. 
The worst fire season on record will cause most people to remember 2020 as the Golden State’s worst harvest on record.
But in reality, the percentage of grapes impacted by smoke taint across the states was lower than many vintners expected, with entire swaths of California wine country unaffected, according to early lab tests conducted by wineries. Early data released by the USDA reveals the state’s grape harvest was down by 13.9 percent in 2020, but most of that loss was due to naturally occurring lower yields, not smoke damage.  ....

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