Santa Rosa in the middle of the Sonoma County wine reginos is at 59% of normal as of November 20, 2008.  San Jose, not far from Gilroy, Santa Cruz Mountains, and Livermore wine regions is at 37% of normal!!  Further south at Salinas in the Monterey wine region with the huge vineyards of the Santa Lucia Highlands and Salinas Valley the rainfall is at 44% of normal.

This is serious yuck!  Grapes need water.  However, one of California’s best vintages for Cab was 1978, the 2nd year of a drought. If anything grows it should be great.