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5
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Clusters of grapes needed to make a bottle of wine
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390
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Number of grapes in five clusters
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50
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Percentage of American households that do not own a corkscrew
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77°
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The optimum temperature for the photosynthesis of grape leaves
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393,000,000
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Gallons of California wine sold in the United States in 2000
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565,000,000
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Gallons of all wine consumed in the United States in the same year
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$19
billion
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The money this countrys consumers spent on wine that year
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3.3
million
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Tons of wine grapes crushed in California in 2001
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6
bottles
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Amount of wine in a barrel saved from evaporation each year by
keeping barrels in a cave instead of in a cellar
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700
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Wineries in California when Prohibition began
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800
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Wineries in California in 1995
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30
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Minutes a grape can endure at 31 degrees before freezing
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5,000
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Estimated number of grape varieties in the world
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