History of Riesling

[Thomas]

Have to keep refining my post: the majority of people who visit tasting rooms around here come from outside the region and from outside New York State--in fact, visitors from PA are high on the list.

As for Randy's average sales record at restaurants, we have a saying among winemakers: watch out for cellar blindness. Cellar blindness occurs when winemakers taste only what they produce and then think it is the answer to all wine's questions. The same can happen to any of us in any profession. If you stay behind a closed door, you cannot see what is outside--you can only imagine.

Perhaps McDonalds or Burger King can make the claim that their restaurants reflect the general population's retail buying patterns (not that I think they can), but I seriously doubt that a fine restaurant can make the claim.