Knapp wine question

[Thomas]

I can neither speak for the location of the grapes nor the production of the wine, except to say that if the majority of the grapes are Finger Lakes it would say so on the label, and if the wine had been fermented and produced at the winery it should say "Produced and Bottled by..."

Label reading is not an art, but it does need a close reading in order to understand it--drives me crazy that people who have been consuming wine for decades can still not understand label information.

Plus, anything produced in the Finger Lakes during the 2004 and 2005 vintages is a marvel of achievement, as the local crops were nearly wiped out by the climate. Survival in the wine business sometimes means sourcing. In California, sourcing is a normal course of action--in the Finger Lakes it has only recently become a reality.

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 09-25-2006).]