Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/23/2009 12:18:06 PM PST by ADReditor
I am a, well, maybe not avid home vineyardist, but at least a guy who tries to grow wine grapes. (If my lazy efforts produce anything drinkable it is usually nothing short of miraculous.) My home state of Missouri is one of the larger winegrowing regions (hovering around tenth largest) in the United States, and Missouri wines are exceptional, garnering innumerable medals at competitions worldwide-including in contests in California. Missouri wines are so good because Missouri is a lousy place to grow good wine grapes, which means that extra care has always been required to produce fine wine. It is a case of ars gratia artis-in this case the art of wine for wine`s sake. Our variable climate, vine diseases and pests, and a general prejudice against “hillbilly wine“ has traditionally forced the industry to take great pains to produce first-class wine.
My own concoctions are usually better suited to use as paint thinner or lamp oil; I`m good at winemaking, but lousy at farming.
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