How come no one's talking?

[stevebody]

Joe,

Part of it, too, is demand. The wines you named are sometimes hard to come by even here in Seattle. Leonetti, for one, has been sold mostly by a subscription list for decades and only lately, as their prices have driven some people away, has there been ample juice in stores here. Frankly - and I'll admit there are a LOT of exceptions - the wines we've been getting from Canada haven't been very good, except for some dessert/ice wine things. The reds, especially, are just nowhere near the WA and CA counterparts for simple quality or as QPR wines. Stores here sell a few but, for the most part, it's Grey Monk and Mission Hill and that's it. Trade restrictions play a part, as does, truthfully, Homerism. It's only in the past five years that WA wines have become anywhere near as uniformly good as people here have insisted they've always been. Those are some reasons. Not all, probably.