(Pressdemocrat) - As you contemplate that Thanksgiving wine you relished on Thursday, ponder for a moment a world too hot to grow fine grapes. Sanliang Gu does every day. For a dozen years his obsession has been to manipulate the growing cycle of grapes around Fresno, California's hottest and therefore earliest-ripening wine region. This past week he succeeded: The 2011 vintage that normally would have been picked in July or August came off the vines two days before Thanksgiving -- about three weeks after Napa's weather-delayed harvest ended.