It's an unlikely haven of sane wine prices, but it exists. It's located in a surreal site, created ages ago.
People retreat here for summer vacations, to camp, hike, canoe, fish, ride horses or stargaze.
In the winter, they ski and play snow games. It's located a scant 2 miles west of U.S. Highway 395, which runs along the Sierra Nevada, through the Mammoth Mountain area and its hundreds of picture-postcard lakes. The towns here go by names like Lone Pine, Independence and Mono. This is territory for rugged individualists. The owners of The Restaurant at Convict Lake are of that ilk.