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, handful truckloads of grapes that were rejected at the winery for low brix,” Sywassink, general manager of Manna Ranch in San Joaquin County, recently told CBS Sacramento [1]…