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Massive Napa do-over prompts grape plant shortage

By Tracie Cone
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Massive Napa do-over prompts grape plant shortage

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Napa Valley, one of the world’s premier wine growing regions, has an uncommon problem these days: not enough new grapevine root stock is available to supply the massive replanting that’s under way there.

A trifecta of developments has created the critical shortage:

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