Word: vineyarder
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...late spring rains on the north coast meant that the crop of Chardonnay, the state's premier white-wine grape, was smaller than normal. No such problem with the reds, though. And the nose knows. Jim Fetzer, one of 10 siblings who run the family's 1,400-acre vineyard in Mendocino County, says his vintners tell him that "the winery hasn't smelled this good in 10 years...
...wine-country joke has it that the surest way to turn a large fortune into a small one is to buy a vineyard. Perhaps so, but there seems to be an endless supply of multimillionaires whose ideal of a little place in the country is a boutique winery on Napa County's Howell Mountain or Rutherford Bench. Twenty-five years ago, the county had a scant two dozen wineries; today there are more than 200, and about a dozen more are on the drawing boards...
...firm, sales of California's premium wines have increased an average of 19.6% a year over the past five years. At the peak of the scale, California's ultra-premiums command prices that come close to matching those of Europe's best. Diamond Creek's tannic, concentrated 1987 Lake Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon went on sale last year at $100 a bottle. The 75 cases were gone within days...
...sales that bypass the U.S. distribution system, according to Wilson Daniels Ltd., DRC's American distributor, which denies any connection to the fakes. The counterfeiters produced a remarkable copy of a legitimate DRC bottle, perhaps by using a desktop computer. But a sharp-eyed Japanese consumer noticed that the vineyard designations on his bottles of Montrachet, vouching for the wine's authenticity, actually listed the name of a DRC red wine, and alerted Wilson Daniels. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating...
...long ago in the backwoods of West Virginia, the flag in front of my high school flew at half-mast. Martin Vineyard, Union High School Class of 1988, United States Marine Corps, was listed killed in action. When the mother of my high-school buddy Sonny told me the story, she suddenly burst into tears in front of me; her son was getting ready to ship out to Saudi Arabia...