The scene was duplicated in many low-lying vineyards in Napa, Mendocino, Lake and nearby counties due to the heavy rains that hit the state's North Coast, or what is essentially their wine country.

This white grape takes its name from a village in the Mâconnais region of Burgundy in France. It remains widely grown there today, but the variety became so popular in the 1970s that for a time it ...