Heard about Mondavi?

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I have a completely different view. To me, the biggest roadblock to success for the smaller producers, whereever they are, isn't the perils of competition in the marketplace, nor government financial policies.... it's distribution of their products. That translates to availability for would-be buyers. The big distributors have a stanglehold on the small producers, and so long as that's the case, the buyers' choices will be limited to the products the distributors want us to have. Free and open competition is the solution to that problem, not the cause.