Co-owners Louis Lucas and Mike Lewellen of Buellton-based Lucas & Lewellen, like many viticulturists and growers across California, face a predicament: They grow more grapes than there are buyers.

For several years, California’s industry specialists such as Allied Grape Growers, a grower-owned wine grape marketing association with offices in Fresno and Paso Robles, have warned vineyard owners to lighten their loads and pull out entire vineyards to ease the statewide grape glut.