1998 Azienda Agraria de Juliis Montepulciano d'Abruzzo "Casanova"

[Thomas]

Roberto, that kind of pricing permeates the wine industry ocean to ocean and coast to coast.

As for the so-called organic claims: that subject drives me to distraction becasue, as the Italian young lady pointed out: some people are certified, some aren't and some who are shouldn't be. To make matters worse, each entity has its own idea of what constitutes organic wine--some start in the vineyard but ignore the winemaking process; others go overboard with controls; still others just claim that all chemicals are organic and throw up their hands.

Maybe we could get a thread going on this topic, and maybe get some qualified chemists to weigh in.