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  • Add 14 historic winery entries from ChatGPT research (1798-1939) Mission Era & Early Pioneers: - MISSION-SANTA-CLARA-VINEYARD.md (1798) - Foundation of SC Valley viticulture - MISSION-SANTA-CRUZ-VINEYARD.md (1804) - First SC Mountains viticulture - PELLIER-FAMILY-VINEYARDS.md (1854) - French grape imports, Mirassou lineage - JOHN-BURNS-BEN-LOMOND-VINEYARD.md (1853) - First commercial SC County vineyard Site Lineage Chains: - JARVIS-BROTHERS-VINEYARD.md (1850s) - 170+ year site continuity - VILLA-FONTENAY.md (1879-1895) - Mel family era on Jarvis site - UVAS-WINERY.md (1916-1932) - First phase of 100+ year site - BONESIO-BROTHERS-WINERY.md (1932-1976) - Second phase, sold to Kirigin - COLOMBANO-WINERY.md (1913-1945) - First phase of Morgan Hill site - Update PEDRIZZETTI-WINERY.md with Colombano lineage 19th Century Operations: - SANTA-CRUZ-MOUNTAIN-WINE-COMPANY.md (1887-1899) - Urban processing node - BEN-LOMOND-WINE-COMPANY.md (~1880-1902) - Consolidation era - MARE-VISTA-WINERY.md (1883-1939) - Survived Prohibition - ETHA-HILL.md (1883-1889) - Stewart's failed venture Update historical-wineries.md with new chronological sections and cross-references Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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  • Add AVAs and Varietals directories, reorganize closed wineries - Add AVAs.md: comprehensive guide to Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Clara Valley, Ben Lomond Mountain, San Ysidro District, and Pacheco Pass AVAs - Add Varietals.md: directory of wine grape varieties with acreage stats and key producers - Update Home.md: add Historical Wineries, Directory of Wineries, AVAs, and Varietals to navigation - Move 41 closed/historic wineries from Wineries.md to historical-wineries.md - Clarify Varner Wine moved out of area (Sonoma Coast) rather than closed - Create 4 new Ridge vineyard entries: Klein Ranch, Perrone Ranch, Torre Ranch, Rousten Ranch - Update Vineyards.md with new Ridge vineyard entries Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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  • Updated historical wineries (markdown)

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  • Reformat historical wineries page with proper table structure

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  • Fix all single-column tables to proper two-column format and add missing headings

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  • Fix formatting issues: add spaces around links, fix table structure, improve headings

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  • Fix all wiki links - replace spaces with hyphens for proper GitHub Wiki URLs

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  • Import SCM Wine wiki content from 2014 archive - 353 winery and vineyard pages converted from HTML to Markdown - 47 images of wineries, vineyards, and wine labels - Includes information on Santa Cruz Mountains wineries, owners, winemakers, contact details, and wine varieties Original archive date: October 19, 2014 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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