Can anyone tell me why.....

[Botafogo]

In a word, if guys from Calabria and Molise with two thousand bottle production who could easily sell it all at the local trattorias show up here wanting me to buy their wines, I STILL find it VERY hard to believe that at least ONE of the NY wineries would not make an attempt.

We have Virginian Wines (from Horton), several wines from Ontario and even FIVE labels of Elderberry wine from KANSAS (not to mention Coconut Arak from Sri Lanka and Pumpkinseed oil from Kaltersee Austria) all of which have representation here in the largest fine wine market in the world.

Again, I make no declarative statements re the quality / price because I have never been given a statistcally relevent sample. THAT is the part that still puzzles me, especially considering the huge annual coverage in the Speculum most years. And as to writers only writing about wines with national distribution, that is just plain not true in any way shape or form: half the wines written up in the major rags are from miniscule cult wineries or are tiny edition special bottlings of larger cantinas.

And I am NOT complaining about not getting NY wines (we have way more than enough on our plate!), I just find it extraordinarily curious that they seem so limited in distribution if they are actually any good.

Roberto