Word: pinot
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...1920s grape-growers ripped out the first-class European vines-the Pinot and Senillon and Riesling, which bore less than two tons of grapes to an acre-and replaced them with indifferent vines which bore up to ten. Reason: Prohibition's amateur vintners bought grapes by quantity, not quality. The wine business continued turning out just about enough wine for the ecclesiastical trade, but the grape business prospered. California shipped about 16,000 carloads of grapes in 1918; by 1927 it shipped 73,000 carloads...