California farmer watches in pain as local winery dumps truckloads of his grapes. Why his only customer rejected him
When Brandon Sywassink pulled into a Lodi winery with truckloads of freshly picked grapes, he thought he was delivering a year’s worth of work. It was the culmination of months spent pruning, watering and praying for good weather. Instead, he was told to dump them. “We had a handful of grapes, well, I might say,…