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Amount (in millions of pounds) of cannabis harvested last year in California. On January 1, recreational pot becomes legal in the state, which also expects to reap some $1 billion in new tax revenues. Recently released rules governing the production, sale and consumption of marijuana are modeled on wine and alcohol industry regulations, including the fact that you’ll need to be 21 to buy it.

Stickie is the colloquial name for what kind of wine?

A. Semi sweet wine from a tropical area

B. Sweet wine from Australia

C. Sweet wine from South Africa

D. Cognac, Armagnac, and other potent beverages distilled from grapes

Stickies are the name Australians fondly give to their dessert wines. Most Australian stickies are made from riesling, semillon or sauvignon blanc grapes, and are outrageously fruity and viscous (sticky). Stickies usually come in half bottles and are considerably less expensive than French dessert wines.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that umlauts scare away American wine lovers. For whatever reason, bottles with labels bearing those diacritical points, floating above terms like spätlese or grapes called spätburgunder or müller-thurgau or places named Würzburg or Württemberg, are a turnoff for so many English-speaking consumers. Let it be said, then, that I am somewhat out of step with my fellow Americans. Though I speak almost no German, I love wines with umlauts. And I go to significant lengths to seek them out.”

–Jason Wilson, How German Wine Found Its Sweet Spot, The Washington Post, September 5, 2019

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