Rows of old head-trained Zinfandel vines on a hillside at dusk, with a single lantern glowing on an end post in the top rows and two gnarled vines in the foreground.
Amador County, Pour Story, Shenandoah Valley, Tasting Rooms

Picked by Lantern

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Late on Halloween afternoon in Amador County’s Shenandoah Valley, an old man in a barn coat asks a new tasting room host how the north block came in this year. His name isn’t on the member list, but it is in the 1894 picking ledger by the door.