2019 will be remembered as a fairly good grape-growing season, a season with favorable weather and no big heat spikes here in California or in the Pacific Northwest. On the East Coast, it was a very good vintage as well, as the weather was unusually dry leading up to the harvest. As the December issue ships off to the printer and on to subscribers, though, the Kincade fire here in Sonoma County, where Wine Business Monthly is based, has scorched 77,000 acres and is still burning. We’ve t...  go to issue >