This article, published in our November 2018 issue, has been updated in the wake of the Woolsey Fire, which devastated the Malibu Coast viticultural area.
It looks like a mirage: grapevines standing in neat rows amid the Joshua trees of California’s high desert. But tucked away in the windswept town of Littlerock in the Antelope Valley, about an hour’s drive north of downtown Los Angeles, is Golden Star Vineyards—one of dozens of working wineries within L.A. County.
