james laube's wine flights

Desperate Housewines: More Home Winemakers Turn Pro

Posted: Sep 10, 2007 12:36pm ET

I returned to Napa after a week's hiatus from Winedom this weekend, happy to find harvest in full swing and the roads populated by those weekend warriors who make wine purely for the fun of it. I’m talking about the hordes of home winemakers, those hearty souls who pick their grapes in tidy boxes and pile them in the backs of pickup trucks and occasionally a station wagon.

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