2008 harvest winemakers' blog

Are Winemakers Doing Drinkers a Disservice?

Posted: Sep 25, 2008 8:36pm ET
By Adam Lee

Posted by Adam Lee Currently, there is a movement in California backing away from the bigger, higher alcohol wines that seemed to become the norm sometime in the late 1990s. Some of this is due to a string of cooler vintages, but some of it is a deliberate decision by a number of winemakers to necessarily take a step back from always pushing the envelope on ripeness.

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