This year may be remembered as a near-perfect one for winegrapes: perfect fruit, a huge crop, a perfect growing cycle and an optimistic return to pre-recession retail wine prices. This year will also be marked as the beginning of a new era as sophisticated, technology-driven equipment integrated into the operational practices of California’s premium wine-producing regions has enhanced quality, increased efficiencies and reduced costs with no discernible negative impact to the vines and gra...