NY Times Nov 15

[Scoop]

I think that FP was a bit lazy and cookie-cutter in his column -- maybe he's just bored. He's doing the least-common-denominator thing. Further, I believe he confused vintages re: Zinfandel, writing, erroneously I believe, that the 1997 Zin vintage was rather thin compared with the fruit-driven 1998 (it was the reverse: 1998 was the wet El Nino vintage). Very careless.

Cheers,

Scoop