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Up in the Hills of Chalone

Up in the Hills of Chalone

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Fredric Koeppel
Sep 18, 2012
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Up in the Hills of Chalone
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Driving up and up a twisting dirt track toward the Chalone winery, nothing in the steep, sere hillsides, lying arid and exposed to the glaring

sun that reigns over this realm of dust and chaparral, could convince you that the landscape and climate are anything like Burgundy. Yet from this improbable parched landscape, some 1800 feet up the Gavilan range,…

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