The valley seemed barren now, he said, but in the spring, after a dusting of rain, it would be bright with cactus blossoms and yellow creosote.

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Wine character fluctuates with each vintage dependent on how cool or how warm it got, the amount of rain in the spring and fall, the wind and even the bird population.

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