Pinot Grigio imports

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Stevebody, Have you tried any Kendall-Jackson wines, or are you just toeing the "I'm a too-sophisticated for K-J wine professional line?" K-J Vintner's wines are non-pretentious. They are wines for the masses, nothing more, nothing less. They are not the most successful winery in the industry for no reason. Every California winery with ambition to grow wishes they could make wine as popular as Kendall-Jackson's wines. Mondavi, Sterling and Beringer created new value lines to compete with K-J when they couldn't do it with their main line stuff and STILL, they can't touch K-J's success. If you're in the industry as you stated, you probably see IRI data and know I'm stating facts.

If we lived in the same part of the world, I would bet $100 that in a blind tasting of Mondavi Reserve Chardonnay, Beringer Private Reserve Chardonnay, Grgich Hills Chardonnay, Far Niente Chardonnay, Ferrari-Carano Chardonnay and K-J Vintner's Chardonnay, the K-J would come out near the top in the minds of any large majority of tasters.

Let me qualify myself here. I do not buy K-J Vintner's wines. I don't really care for much chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot personally, but whenever I taste K-J's wines if they happen to be on the table with friends or whatever, I always enjoy them and I marvel at how they are able to make so much good quality wine. Can millions and millions of satisfied customers be wrong? If you don't like it, don't drink it, but to imply that those who enjoy K-J are ignorant or blinded to all of the great Italian white wine out there (both of them) is irresponsible at best, rude at worst.