I don’t pose as a wine expert or anything close to it. I did come to appreciate fine wines-mainly French-thanks to my Danish father in law.
As to the alcohol content..changes in soil, rainfall, grape mutations, sunlight??? I don’t know.
Tangledinblue... are you screwed in a blue state like me in illannoy?
Will open bottle someday.
Thanks for chat...and yes I can be a smart ass!
I can be a smart ass too. :)
Yes, I’m in NJ - a CPA by trade with heavy ties to Wine Journalism and the Wine Industry. A website I own/write is a key player within the Italian wine Industry.
I’ll ping you maybe later today for some thoughts on higher alc. content. Essentially, I believe it was also fostered for business reasons. Especially in CA and France.