And there were well-made, accessibly priced wines from Tony Soter's North Valley label and the "basic" Willamette Valley Pinot from Domaine Drouhin.
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As a result, artists and performers are leaving Pakistan's Swat Valley and the North-West Frontier Province in droves.
But the vine's very hardiness and adaptability explain why it has spread across areas like North Africa, California's Central Valley and parts of Australia that have not always been, shall we say, dedicated heart and soul to wine quality.
In addition to murder charges stemming from the Ileto killing, he faced a dozen other charges including hate crimes violations stemming from the shooting rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center's day-care facility west of downtown Los Angeles.
They moved north to practise it in British Columbia's Creston Valley.
Both firms are producing excellent whites in the Casablanca Valley to the north, but that's another story.
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The valley's southern edge is only three miles north of the US border.
Saturday's Blue Square North meeting with Blyth Spartans is the first game at Valley Stadium this month and Whild knows his side have to make it count.
That's when the Tennessee Valley Authority, a government-owned corporation, resurrected a North Alabama reactor that had been shut down for safety reasons 22 years ago.
So often in their Blue Square North fixtures Redditch are the underdogs, so it will be an unusual experience going into Saturday's Valley Stadium clash (1500 BST) as clear favourites against the Midland Alliance high fliers.
He cited a study by a group of European climatic institutes that reconstructed more than a millennium of weather patterns in a region ranging from France's Rhone Valley in the west to Hungary in the east, and from Germany's Nuremberg area in the north to Italy's Tuscany in the south.
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