Imagine a weather event so severe that it literally wiped out an entire vintage of grapes in Napa Valley or Russian River Valley or the Santa Lucia Highlands. Devastating on a number of levels. Well, this is exactly what has appeared to have happened to the Southwest England Cider Apple Orchards after devastating rains there have appeared to destroyed the potential of 17,500 acres of cider apple trees.  The news is of a “Cider Drought” in one of the world’s…