A concern for Caymus when it comes to reducing local wine production is timing. It is building a winery in Cordelia in Solano County as a hub for bottling wine. The Wagner family that owns Caymus Vineyards also grows grapes in Monterey, Santa Barbara, Sonoma and Solano counties.

Under the proposed development agreement, Caymus could produce up to 1.8 million gallons of wine at its Napa Valley winery this year, 800,000 gallons in 2017 and 110,000 gallons in 2018. The winery would like to increase this amount to 660,000 gallons in 2019.

Another development agreement proposal is for Caymus to pay more than $100,000 in housing, traffic and other county impact fees for illegal buildings and to pay $50,000 to the Rutherford Fire Department, the county report said.

In addition, Caymus could sell wine at its tasting room regardless of where the wine was made, so long as the wines are made by Caymus or Caymus affiliates. The county would recognize this as a right preceding the 1990 winery law that prohibits such sales.

Caymus is also seeking use permit changes. It wants to do such things as replace a house with a greenhouse, demolish buildings, relocate roads, build a new parking lot, improve the wastewater system, restore a creek bank and remodel a building.