A lot has changed in terms of thinking about where grapes can be grown in California. Back in the pioneering days of the late 1960s and early 1970s, conventional wisdom as well as academic expertise declared many parts of Sonoma County unlikely to be able to ripen grapes. But pioneers such as David Hirsch proved those experts wrong. That said, there are some areas of California that still straddle the knife-edge of viability when it comes to ripening grapes, such as this vineyard in Nicasio in Marin County. Inundated with summer fog, and whipped by winter winds and storms, it can be pretty rough to get a crop sometimes. But winegrowers are nothing if not persistent, and so Marin County wine is still a thing.
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