(Wines&Vines) - The eruption of Mount Konocti about 11,000 years ago was instrumental in the history of Lake County. Last week, during the Lake County Winegrape Commission’s Momentum conference, local grapegrowers considered how the volcano could help shape the area’s future as a winegrowing region. 

Many of the county’s growers, who tend about 10,000 acres of grapes (up sharply from a few years ago), crowded into the historic Soper-Reese Theater in the county seat on Clear Lake.