Can anyone tell me why.....

[Botafogo]

vendors, importers and producers making and selling wine from Bulgaria, New Zealand, Georgia (the one in Russia), Argentina, Tunisia, the Czech Republic, British Columbia and on and on and on bother me all day long without appointments but in twenty years in the wine business I have been presented with exactly four samples from New York (and all in one day, five years ago)????

Don't say the production is too small, lots of the Italian guys we sell couldn't fill ONE DAY of Mondavi's sample allotment.

Do all of the wines sell to tourist on Long Island and Restaurants in the City??? Are Long Island winemakers the only ones on the planet who do not have a jones to have their wines broadly distributed (even just for ego purposes)? Or do they just realize they can't compete in the market (don't flame me, I have no data as I never taste any, I'm just posing the question)? What gives??? Inquiring minds want to know......

Roberto (WINE EXPO)