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Originally Posted by elchivito
At the winery I am part of we don't participate in pointed judgings. We love fairs and "people's choice" style competitions and frequently win. We don't have any Screaming Eagle aspirations. We are looking to produce moderately priced, young, fruit forward drinkable wines. We have 13 year old Chard, Syrah, Merlot and Zin vines and are planting Tempranillo, San Gio and Garnacha on my land. We make mainly varietals but will be blending more when the grapes on my property produce a usable crop. The Temp will start to come in usably next year, the others will follow a couple of years later.
The days of snob appeal are waning. People are figuring out that if they like it, it doesn't make a whit of difference what some douche in a Harris Tweed jacket thinks. In this country we forget that the vast majority of wine made and consumed on this planet is made and consumed by poor people. Leave it to us to turn it into some status deal.
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If you ship to pa I'd love to try your wine! Our company appeals to the old world and older-new-world snobs so we are all about that stuff, don't touch anything else. Ratings sell the wine we typically have. Our folks are the people who have 10-15k a year to blow away on cases of wine and pay my bills--which i think is insane but i guess theyre out there. but I've had some great new-new-world wines (if that makes sense) and I love trying new ones...never had an AZ wine before. PM me info?
I agree with the above quote as that pretty much describes me, but the older crowd is still huffing about stags leap in Paris and 1982 Bordeaux.
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