"Following the pandemic, a lot of people raised their tasting prices. The prices of wine have increased. It's expensive to make wine,"
"Last year, there was probably an estimated 400-thousand tons left unharvested across California, and it probably be that amount his year,"
"The grapes being left unharvested is painful to see,"
Wine grape harvests continue in California while growers and wineries face market challenges despite favorable weather. Declining alcohol consumption and increased production costs have reduced demand and driven higher retail and tasting prices. Oversupply has left an estimated hundreds of thousands of tons of grapes unharvested statewide, and thousands of vineyard acres have been removed. In regions like Lodi, about 20 percent of vines—roughly 20,000 acres—have been pulled out in recent years. Visual evidence includes rotting grapes on vines and rows of vines lying on the ground as some growers forgo harvesting.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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