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Wine production in Napa County declined almost 40% in 2020, data shows. As the first wines of the vintage are released in bottle, the valley’s producers must now assess how best to stretch the inventory they do have. Whites and roses from any given vintage are typically released by the following summer, according to Rosemary Cakebread, winemaker at Gallica Wines. Later ripening-varieties, like Cabernet Sauvignon and other red wine grapes, are usually not made available to consumers for another year and a half past that – by late 2022, in the case of the 2020 vintage, she said. The n...

To say now is an unprecedented time for Napa Valley’s wine industry is to repeat what is perhaps the year’s most ubiquitous understatement. News broke in early 2020 that wine consumption had declined slightly in the United States in 2019, the first dip of its kind in a quarter-century. It came as something of a blow even to Napa Valley’s wine industry, whose premium reputation typically insulates it from general market volatility. But the previous years’ harvest, in 2018, had produced a wine grape crop more than a third larger than expected across the North Bay. Of both ov...