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Five Years of Erratic Crushes Puts Cloud Over Wine Industry

California Arizona Farm Press

March 16, 1985

Charging the greatest surplus in the wine industry is ignorance, a North Coast grower suggests a detailed crush report as a step to relieve the industry’s financial depression.W. Andrew Backstoffer of St. Helena sketched a plan for a bulk wine report, issued quarterly if not monthly, to include the following: year of harvest, district, type...