San Franciscans aren't the only ones freaking out over this month's strange weather patterns. Thanks to a week of 100-plus temperatures across Northern California, Wine Country's famous varietals are left withering on the vine.
While most of this year's white grapes were, thankfully, harvested in time, the heat wave hit right before red grapes such as cabernet are typically harvested.
As reported by the Chronicle, the heat wave is causing"raisining" in vineyards all across Sonoma and Napa. Some Pinot Noir producers were able to rush out and harvest ahead of the heatwave, but many grapes were not picked in time to prevent the high temperatures from shrinking them on the vine, leaving winemakers with half-dried clusters of grapes.
Now, there's nothing left for winemakers to do but harvest, sort the bad grapes and hope the 2017 vintage doesn't taste like raisins.