Author Nancy Citro

Nancy Citro is on staff at The Wine Shop in downtown Healdsburg and has lived in the beautiful Russian River Valley for nearly three decades. She farms a small zinfandel vineyard & has enjoyed fly fishing...

It takes guts to grow premium wine grapes—plus a sizable amount of cash, a love of farming, and the fortitude to deal with the ongoing challenges, both environmental and political, of producing a great glass of wine. Frost may not be the biggest of a grower’s concerns, but it has become a vexing problem here in California’s Russian River Valley, where the rights of farmers sometimes go head to head with the rights of fish.