Careful with your AVAs

[Thomas]

Tom,

I don't disagree much with your position, and although you argue for appellation as a means for legitimacy, I can't imagine what legitmicay you refer to if you argue against control. Just seems to me that to know where the grape has grown won't mean anything if it is manipulated to make it more suitable to its sometimes hostile environment.

In a way, we are saying the same thing, but differently.

I prefer the appellation system only if growers and producers agree to it, for whatever reason they agree, backed up by reserach and experiment too. But I cannot figure any benefit to an appellation system if it is strictly a marketing tool. I would rather just know who the producer is, how the wine was produced and if the work came to anything worthwhile; the latter will come to me when I taste the wine.