Grape juice concentrate

[Thomas]

randery, your reaction, and kc's, to Haight wines answers your question. Making wine from concentrate certainly gives a lesser wine than the natural way, although I am not sure why. But I am reasonably sure that concentrate will come not from superior but from inferior grapes and vintages, and that likely is why the wine from it isn't great.

As for the Haight and government issue, it is really a technical matter about labeling; the ATF has rules on what must be stated when producing wine, but few (if any) rules that deal with quality.

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 02-23-2003).]