Brandon Sywassink has been working all year to produce the highest quality of grapes. His only customer is one winery in Lodi.
"We had a handful of grapes, well, I might say, handful truckloads of grapes that were rejected at the winery for low bricks," Manna Ranch General Manager Brandon Sywassink said. "Bricks mean sugar content and the contracts on them were for 24 bricks. It's a pretty high number. It's a tough number to meet."
"It hurts a lot just to watch it," Sywassink shared. "I mean, I literally just dumped it out into a field that used to be a vineyard. I literally took it over to a field that used to be a vineyard and dumped it out in that field."
"Farmers get a paycheck once a year, and we didn't get a paycheck that day," he said. "It hurts. It hurts."
This doesn't just impact growers; it impacts the Lodi community as a whole.
Spencer said the quality of the grapes this year is beautiful. The only difference is the lower sugar, meaning the wines have lower alcohol.
"We have to have in place some sort of code of conduct that makes it an equal partnership because right now, the growers have no choice," Spencer said.
The Winegrape Commission says over the past 40 years, the average bricks at harvest have only gone up. During summers like the one the San Joaquin Valley just experienced, it creates a major challenge to meet that standard.
In the meantime, the best customers can do to help is check the label and support local wine.
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