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The cuts his father made: Two valleys, 4 families and California’s oldest living vines
LEE MARTINELLI SR. IS 87, and he can read his family on the trunks of his vineyard the way other people read a photo album. On the 60-degree slope of Jackass Hill in Forestville, the zinfandel his grandfather Giuseppe planted in the late 1880s is still in the ground. Lee Sr. can walk among those […] The post The cuts his father made: Two valleys, 4 families and California’s oldest living vines appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, The cuts his father made: Two valleys, 4 families and California’s oldest living vines, LEE MARTINELLI SR. IS 87, and he can read his family on the trunks of his vineyard the way other people read a photo album. On the 60-degree slope of Jackass Hill in Forestville, the zinfandel his grandfather Giuseppe planted in the late 1880s is still in the ground. Lee Sr. can walk among those […] The post The cuts his father made: Two valleys, 4 families and California’s oldest living vines appeared first on Local News Matters .
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