The Rise and Fall of Cabernet

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Actually Innkeeper - French & Italian winemakers put as low as possible alcohol level on the bottle, (yes unbelieavable, because they were the same every year) because they were taxed based on alcohol level of the wine. If the bottles were ever tested you would find that the alcohol level was much higher some years. Those tax laws have changed in recent years and some winemakers are starting to put the true level on the bottle.