This week marks
the first week of harvest for wine grapes in Napa, Sonoma, Marin, Lake, and Mendocino Counties, aka the California "wine country".
Yee Haw!
Everything is running about two weeks behind schedule due to a wet spring and a (so far) mild fall. In my part of the country, fall is usually our "summer" with the warmer temperatures, so it's a bit premature to call it "mild".
My grapes are still several weeks away from harvest, perhaps late September, unless we get a hot spell.