Flush with Success, the Sequel

[wineglut]

Well, as it turns out they want to buy grapes and wine. And they don't care that I cherry pick the vineyard and cellar for myself.

We compared their Parker high points barrel lot with what they could buy and augmenting the blend would actually improve the wines quality...deeper color, richer finish while tripling the volume. They had to sell off a lot of the '02 vintage because the wine was bad.

And they want to make a long term committment and have a viticultural control clause in the contract (so they can Estate Bottle). And Price is not an issue, quality is everything to them. And we're talking 20 to 30 tons at 5500 a ton and 1200 to 2000 gallons of wine at $35.

They were slightly annoying, but they're not the devil incarnate as I had imagined. They want to make great wine and they want to make money, pure and simple.

However, while I may want to take back my rant about this specific vintner, I do stand by my rant on the issue of a critic scoring wines from the barrel.