The Rise and Fall of Cabernet

[Thomas]

Tastevin, re, Bordeaux and California: I'll bet wineglut is talking about the garage wine movement that began in Italy and spread to Bordeaux. It refers to small operations that produce outside the DOC parameters, mainly to emulate the big, bold, fruit forward, high everything wines that wineglut (and I) do not particularly enjoy.

There is a great deal of animosity between the old and the new in France right now, as there is in Italy.

I recounted somewhere else on this board a story about me and an Itlaian winemaker in the Veneto; he gave me a series of wines to taste that were nothing like Italian wines and everything like Ca or Aussie. When I asked why he would produce that stuff he said it was intended for America, because, "that's what Americans want."