2000 Crow Canyon

[Thomas]

Aha! San Luis Obispo County did not readily come to my feeble mind when I saw SLOC.

Yes, the appellation means what you say (although I think it might be more than 75%), but I am not talking about where the grapes grow, rather who made the wine. You said you could find nothing online about the producer on the label. Recap--if it doesn't say Estate Grown on the label, then the producer did not grow the grapes. If it says Produced and Bottled By, then the producer may or may not have grown the grapes, but did make the wine. If it says Vinted or Cellared By, then the producer did little more than sign a contract with someone to make the wine, and then get it to him--in or out of the btotle, mostly in. The reason you cannot find a nything about the producer is likely that the producer is only a shell name for a person or group with a contract to market the wines that somone else produced and bottled. That someone else is normally a big volume production facility where a lot of surplus goes to this kind of bottling.



[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 08-07-2002).]