Whenever I am at a meeting, or having a beer with other winemakers, and the talk turns to winemaking, the discussion often has been about high alcohol wines. Should we or should we not make them?
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Wine Alcohol Levels…Thoughts
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We have noted elsewhere that 2011 was a strange and wonderful year. Rain, cold, more rain, reduced fruit production, and a freeze. The upside was great color, amazing complexity, and flavors that we seldom see. On balance – let’s do it again, but without the freeze as that hurt quite a few growers and wineries. Continue: 
Wine enthusiasts have been reading about the various wine growing Appellations and how – mythically – the best wine grapes are grown only there. In fact, there are numerous great areas for growing very fine wine grapes in California alone. Some include the Napa Valley, The Central Coast, The Santa Maria Valley, The Santa Continue: 
For reasons that escape me, and a lot of things escape me, I have never understood the American proclivity to either discard white wines when they are 2-3 years old, or pass them by when seen on a wine seller’s shelf. Continue: 
Harvest Notes – 2011: “It was the best of times: It was the worst of times” (Dickens), but that could well apply to the 2011 harvest. In reality it was a great harvest from the wine’s point of view. Continue: |
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