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Feature Article
Working from one of the hardest hit harvests in memory, vineyard workers pick grapes at dawn in Napa Valley.
Napa Harvest 2008: Working With Nature's Adversity
Frost, fires, and little rain have thrown a junk ball at the harvest of ‘08.
by
Alan Goldfarb
September 5, 2008
The worst frost since 1972, combined with widespread fires fueled by ferocious winds and high heat and exacerbated by lack of rain may result in the harvest of 2008 being what long-time California grapegrower Andy Beckstoffer describes as like a “knuckleball”.
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