Good morning GD. How's the wine grape harvest going...
It is going well. Earlier there was a lot of panic in getting the harvest in during the hot days.
Now it is semi normal. Warm Indian Summer days and cool nights.
The biggest news is the removal of Mondavi and his sons from Mondavi wines.
The biggest unsaid news is the trend to good lower priced wines by America. Two Buck Chuck has impacted the elitists of the wine industry very hard. The other impact was the implosion of the Clintoon Dot.com millionaires. Most of them can't afford two buck Chuck let alone a hundred $ bottle of wine for lunch and a two hundred $ bottle or two for dinner.