"As my wife and I munched and sipped, our eyes took in the view beyond the vineyard, phalanx upon phalanx of high rounded hills fading from green to gray in the softening light."
"Many people equate the name Carmel with Carmel-by-the-Sea, a tourist magnet whose downtown shopping district channels a 16th-century European village. But Carmel-by-the-Sea has a country cousin - a vast expanse of grassland, forest and chaparrel-covered hills a few miles from the coast."
"Grapevines, likewise, have been growing here since the 1800s. In 1983, Carmel Valley was designated an American Viticultural Area, but with only 300 acres under cultivation, it's production is minuscule relative to the 45,000 acres of the Napa Valley, about 160 miles north." - Nick Czap - NY Times
A version of this article appears in print on January 22, 2017, on Page TR4 on the New York edition of the NY Times.
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