Last August, on a hurried stretch of East 18th Street in Antioch, 20 acres of ancient grapevines seemed to vanish overnight.
Once part of the historic Evangelho Vineyard, the parcel was sold off in the 1950s, changing hands several times before Rockefeller Construction acquired it last year.
Morgan Twain-Peterson of Sonoma’s Bedrock Wine Co. was crushed, but not surprised…