Thank you Joe Dressner for . . .

[Bruce G.]

originally posted by MarkS:
Mission really doesn't make a 'great' wine, btw.
Not to bust bubbles or anything.

I've had some 'great' older bottles of Charlie Meyers' Mission del Sol.
'Great' here being used in the NWM-approved sense, in that it facilitated "getting smashed, eating well, and laughing with good friends".

More info (some of it out-dated) on the Mission grape in California is contained here: http://www.graperadio.com/downloads/newsletter-2007-03-01.pdf

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Kevin McKenna replied that the Carmenere Loncomilla is also made by Clos Ouvert, from purchased grapes grown in the Loncomilla valley in Maule.