California wine is in serious trouble. For 25 years, the industry boomed. Then it started to unravel.

[Mr.Bill]

15. Before last October I lived in Lake County, California

which borders Napa County on it's northern end. I lived there for over 30 years. When I moved there in '91, Lake county grew one third of the Pears in the US. Walnuts were our second largest crop.

Over the last 30 years, they have torn out orchards that have been there for many decades and planted wine grapevines by the millions. It seems they realized they can grow pretty much the same quality grapes as Napa on land that costs pennies on the dollar compared to Napa. Lake county is the home of Clear Lake, the largest natural lake in the state at 44,000 acres. Plenty of water available. The ground water is also plentiful and stayed strong even through the drought years.

A lot of people said it was a mistake to tear out a food crop that has done well for over a century for this fad called wine. It looks like maybe they were right. It was sad to see. Maybe soon Marijuana will be their big crop.