As part of our research project, we toured King Estates Winery, which is about 20 miles out of town here. It was very very cold and foggy, we could hardly see the vineyards. Randy Stokes gave us a great tour and showed us everything from the grapevines to where they sort the stems and skins away from the grapes, big steel vats and then oak barrels where the wines are aged. We also saw where the bottle the wines and puts corks and labels on them and put them in boxes to be shipped to customers. We didn't taste any wines though!
After the tour, Randy Stokes talked to us about climate change and how it will affect vineyards here. King Estates won't have as many problems as some other wineries because they are closer to the coast which keeps their vineyard at a cooler overall temperature.
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