This California wine paradise all but vanished. Now there’s a quest to revive it
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, San Bernardino County — Angela Osborne couldn’t find the vineyard she was searching for. The winemaker had heard about Hofer Ranch, one of the last holdouts of the wine scene in the Cucamonga Valley — a region about 40 miles east of Los Angeles that had once been blanketed in grapes but whose vineyards had all but disappeared.