Word: sauvignon
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Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon '69, which sells for up to $40 a bottle, have become ridiculously expensive; and, because they are scarce, the reds in particular are snapped up and drunk down years before they have fully matured. Peter Morrell, a Manhattan wine merchant who boasts one of the country's biggest assemblages of California bottles, insists on locking the better ones away until they are mature enough to drink...
Many professional critics call steely-haired, iron-willed Joe Heitz, 58, one of America's two or three best wine makers. His 1970 Cabernet Sauvignon knocked off the fabled Château Latour, Château Lafite Rothschild and other French pedigrees in some blind tastings. When French experts sent him a praising letter, he wrote back: "Why don't you lower your import barriers?" The visitor gets the idea that Heitz would have done well even if he were making caps or car wax instead of wine...
...Chinese studies, with the help of his wife Louisa, who studied wine chemistry, and his brother Charles. The Hargraves plant only vinifera, no hybrids. Remarked Alex: "If you can grow avocados, why grow brussels sprouts?" In spite of the Hargraves' recently planted vines and inexperience, their Sauvignon blanc was given top rating among New York wines tasted recently by Wine Author Alexis Bespaloff (The Fireside Book of Wine) and Vintage Magazine Publisher Philip Seldon. Seldon was also "impressed with the hints of the future" in the Hargraves' Pinot Noir...
...settled in Altus, Ark., in the 1880s because the Ozark Mountain country reminded him of his native Switzerland. Johann planted native Concords and Delawares, but in 1958 his grandson Alcuin, now 43, began experimenting with vinifera and last year sold 10,000 gal. of such wines as Cabernet Sauvignon and Gewurztraminer, some of them in his own Alpine-style restaurant...
Meanwhile, buyers are getting better quality for their money. Cabernet Sauvignon grapes go almost exclusively into wines selling at $3 or more per bottle, but some vintners have begun to offer wine made from a hybrid grape combining Cabernet Sauvignon and Carignane that sells for about $2 per fifth. Among the wines are Gallo's Ruby Cabernet and Inglenook's Navalle Ruby Cabernet. Says Inglenook Winemaster Thomas Ferrell: "We're trying to put some style into the jug wines...