What if you could lock a favorite wine in a photograph? Using a groundbreaking method, an award-winning photographer has reshaped the boundaries of traditional film portraiture. Photographers have long experimented with developing black-and-white film in solutions of instant coffee, beer and other liquids — a time-honored and nontoxic alternative to traditional chemical processes. Sonoma photographer James Joiner has now done…

For the first time in three decades, Lisa Graul hasn’t been able to sell her coveted Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, which she farms with her husband at their home in Calistoga. Her existing contracts with wineries expired this year and weren’t renewed, so she has slashed her pricing in a desperate attempt to lure in some buyers before harvest’s end —…