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Guillotine? A rusty one?

The Cargasacchi vineyard is a single plot planted to a single pinot clone, 115. Probably something like a dozen wineries get fruit from the site (and Peter Cargasacchi makes his own wine from it as well) so that narrows the variables down a little. But the winery customers do work with their own...

Shea? They make a lot of wine themselves but seem to sell to pretty much everyone. Cargasacchi? Melville? Zotovich? Same deal. Interesting exercise.

All over Burgundy this kinda/sorta thing has been possible for, like, forever, no? And Alsace, Beaujolais, the northern Rhone, the Loire. Germany, for sure. Piemonte, definitely. Etc.

"...this from someone who has prosecuted many life sentence cases and taken maybe seventy other cases to jury trial and raised four boys entirely by myself since 2005" What went wrong? Shouldn't the ladies have been lining up for this charming fellow?

That crafty lil' litigatin' hobbit is on to these shenanigans: http://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=103369&sid=069a6fc6321d8266c1cb76f8045dd1d1

His c.v. suggets that he might not even be 30 years old. He is a cute lil' hobbit-looking feller, though.

Another good book on the subject that's an easy read is The Forger's Spell by Edward Dolnick. It's about the guy who generated phony Vermeers during WWII.

...Le Coze. The owner of Le Bernardin.

One problem with Napa is that there aren't *enough* Corisons, not to mention enough wineries that practice the Corison pricing model, which doesn't insult the customers' wallets and common sense. The changes in Napa pretty closely track the increasing of rarity of wineries and wines like...

Personal taste is never wrong. Hard to say that Copain gave up on the Santa Rita Hills as they only made a single wine from there, a 2007 Clos Pepe Pinot. They used to buy Syrah from the Santa Lucia Highlands but the difference between what's grown there and in the Santa Rita Hills is pretty...

Babcock, Dierberg and Longoria all get their syrah from Santa Ynez. Probably best to steer clear of that region!

Ojai's monster wines weren't made from Sta. Rita Hills fruit.

Which ones? The weather there doesn't really allow for that style. This is a Region I growing area, whch is as cold as it gets in California. Are you thinking of places further inland? Santa Maria Valley? Santa Ynez? Edna Valley? San Luis Obispo? There's not much syrah planted in the...

Maybe you're thinking of Paso Robles?