![]() ![]() This season started roughly three weeks later in Sonoma and Napa counties than in the 2020-2022 drought, thanks to above-normal winter rains and cool spring weather. “So I have to say this is the first time in my 25-year career I've seen this happen.” “We normally see harvest start in Sonoma and Napa (counties) and then finish in Lake and Mendocino (counties), being more north,” said Christian Klier, North Coast wine grape broker for Novato-based Turrentine Brokerage. ![]() This is pushing harvest for the region’s billion-dollar crop deeper into fall and closer to the time when rains typically begin in earnest and the season is effectively over. Wine grape growers at the north end of the North Coast region this time of year typically are fretting whether they’ll be able to wrap harvest before late fall rains begin in earnest.īut an unusual flip-flop in weather this season has seen a sizable proportion of the fruit off the northern vines, while picking has barely started in the south. ![]()
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