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In Reply to: RE: You just never know! posted by jimbill on August 19, 2009 at 15:23:58
who keep giving them high scores. Lots of wineries make wines to get high scores because that's what moves the wine. If reviewers changed so would the wines.
I don't grow my own grapes for a couple of reasons. Having a vineyard is a money hole...I can't afford to tie up my capital with establishing a vineyard. (I am not a rich man, especially not now!)
I get my grapes from different climates...I rarely buy Syrah and Cabernet from the same area, same goes for Riesling, etc...this gives me way more options. I routinely travel 2 hours away from here to find grapes...why limit yourself to one climate if you don't have to? Growing grapes is a hard thing to master. Some day I'll work on it, but for now I leave it to the farmers with a proven track record.
Not sure about 2008....I seem to remember some early frost problems in CA, but not sure exactly where...and then there were fires. I know I've seen some emails from labs in CA talking about smokey flavors in the 2008's and how to deal with them.
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