Case Study
AT CALIFORNIA ORGANIC VINEYARD, PUMP IS KEY PART OF SUSTAINABILITY
THE SITUATION Rain does not come often to the wine country in the Santa Rita Hills of south-central California. “We still talk about that one day in June 2010 when it rained,” says Peter Work, co-owner of Ampelos vineyard near Buellton in Santa Barbara County. “We have six months of the year where it doesn’t rain. It’s not like it doesn’t rain a whole lot. It doesn’t rain period.” At the same time, the area has brilliant conditions for grow