The Weenie Surrenders!!!

[Thomas]

I know Roberto is smiling--I certainly agree with the above sentiments. It is an age-old problem with wine (goes back to antiquity) the stuff seems always to bring big bucks, but then the stuff always seems to bring a crash too.

There was a time when expensive was warranted, like when it was difficult to produce wine in large volumes or when the quality level shot up drastically as in the famous Roman vintage of 121 BC. But even then, Falernian succumbed to greed and ultimatley became a second-rate expensive product hobbled with many inexpensive knock-offs.

Today there is far more wine than there are consumers for it, and the quality levels, though great, are not "shooting" up, just gradully altering. Left Coast prices do not reflect reality--only status.