2004 Tommasi Amarone

[Thomas]

IK,

Most data on wine labels is allowed leeway and percentages, so you are right: it doesn't necessarily follow that more data is real information, unless TTB makes it so.

To me, the worst TTB information is the AVA. There are no growing parameters established for American vineyard locations, except for the ones that are self imposed.

So, what's the purpose of an AVA designation? Essentially, it says that grapes are grown in that location because they can be grown there.