“This is the grape market battle cry: We need to pull out some vines…”
https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2020/02/06/amid-grape-glut-exec-says-california-has-excess-of.html
To be fair, this article is focused on the Central Valley and bulk grapes. Of course there are repercussions throughout the state, but not exactly a high-end grape crisis.
This article specifically mentions Napa & Sonoma:
It’s funny, they can’t get rid of the staples, but the weirdo varieties are completely sold out. During harvest in 2019 it was impossible to get your hands on anything that wasn’t vanilla. Try to find some Roussanne, Marsanne, Trousseau, Cabernet Pfeffer, Negrette, PicPoul or even Mission and you’d struggle. Maybe growers need to diversify and jump off the Cab, PN and Chard train.
It does but it doesn’t? It only says the sentiments are echoed, without offering any data.
Now growers are facing a new issue, the San Francisco Business Times reports. Speaking at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, a confab for the worldwide wine industry, Jeff Bitter of Fresno-based Allied Grape Growers says that California is “in a very difficult grape situation” — a sentiment echoed by several Napa and Sonoma-based growers at the event.