What's Harvest Like This Year?

Larry Leigon's Secret Life of Wine Newsletter #83

Danger Fields

It was 107 degrees in Napa today. And that’s down from 115 degrees a few days ago. Even the sky looks cracked and dry.

It’s harvest and the grapes aren’t doing any better in this kind of heat than people are. The creeks and gullies are filled with shade but not so much with water. Many of them are as dried and cracked as the sky.

Grape pick…