The 2010 Grape Crush Report was issued at noon today by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and it surprised most observers. “I’m shocked,” said Nat DiBuduo, president of the large grower cooperative Allied Grape Growers, who found the total much higher than he anticipated and had forecast at the recent Unified Wine & Grape Symposium. The 2010 crush totaled 3,980,229 tons, down 3% from the 2009 crush of 4,095,297 tons, according to the report. The winegrape portion was 3.6 million tons (the balance raisin and table varieties crushed). DiBuduo had forecast it would below 3.2 tons.