California

Lack of water is good stress for the vines - makes 'em put more energy into the fruit and create better-flavored grapes! Is all good...thanks for thinking of me!

I'll never forget the one time I visited Grand Junction - every winery I went into and asked them details about their wines, vineyards, processes, etc I learned they get about 5 tons grapes/acre. Standard practice in CA is to only harvest ~2 tons/acre. If you have ideal growing conditions, such as on the western side of CO, then the vines don't stress enough and they produce a large amount of fruit. If that extra fruit isn't pruned off, you get less concentrated flavors. I truly think they could start producing as good a quality wine as what comes out of Napa and Sonoma if they were a little harsher to their vines, though there's a lot more to making good wine than that too.

I haven't been following the weather in CA very closely, but the amount of fires in Alaska is horrible. One day last week, they had an area the size of Texas declared as under Red Flag Warning and on their Facebook news pages it was post after post about a new fire or ongoing fire.