[Citizen Zed]

It's amazing that the wine makers would not have taken precautions.

[Domangart]

Upthrust and rollers can be fixed but you never can get it perfect.

[Sherman Logan]

Mi>Napa Valley is home to nearly 800 wineries that produce roughly a quarter of the nation's wine.

Methinks the appropriate response to this claim is "hogwash."

Napa Valley just isn't that big.

By volume it produces only about 4% of of CA's wine, much less that of the whole country.

http://thirstyreader.com/for-wine-geeks-only-napa-valley-by-the-numbers/

The dollar value of Napa wine is higher. 2013 earned growers $638M. Total US is somewhere around $2500M, which puts Napa close to 25%.

I'm no expert in this field, so the two statistics might not be directly comparable.

Seems unlikely to me that roughly 3% of the crop would earn 25% of the dollars, but then wine is different from other crops.

[abb]

Setting up the meme for a government bailout.

[dennisw]

Another reason to drink beer instead.... In cans

[biff]

Y’all reckon my MadDog 20/20 made it thru the shake-n-quake?

[sappy]

another excuse for ZerO to use as to why things aren’t going quite well.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Somewhere, my wife’s niece is crying.

[Zathras]

As the locals say:
“Sonoma makes wine, Napa makes auto parts”
Actually I have favorites in both valleys.