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Holly's Hill Winery offers Sierra Foothills wine in a beautiful wine tasting room, considered one of the best in Placerville and Pleasant Valley.

Snow, cold and heavy rain leaves California grape growers shaking heads at unusual season

"Wild spring weather across California's wine country has been enough to drive a vintner to drink...Itâ€™s snow, not rain, that caused problems in mountainous El Dorado County, where leafing vineyards have been hit by the same spring snow storms that have some ski resorts dreaming of remaining open through July 4.

There's nothing we can do about it, and we don't even know the outcome yet,€ said Josh Bendick, winemaker at Holly's Hill in the Sierra-Nevada foothills, where 4 inches accumulated May 15 on 6-inch shoots of viognier, an early blooming white wine-grape..."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/snow-cold-and-heavy-rain-leaves-california-grape-growers-s haking-heads-at-unusual-season/2011/06/10/AGIOnLOH_story.html