Now, all the vintners want to make this, but I prefer the single varieties.
French vintners have increased wholesale prices for new wine 50% and more over the past three years.
But vintners here describe their wines as younger and more adventurous than their California cousins to the west.
Not the kind of category that picky vintners like Mintz and Twelftree want retailers to place them in.
So while domestic producers continue to make headway, foreign vintners remain bottled up.
Local pubs did not benefit from this exemption and the Vintners Federation of Ireland (VFI) took the matter to court.
Cristina Mariani-May, Co-CEO of Banfi Vintners, a family winery, credits her success to her ability to build relationships by listening.
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The participating vintners get their wines introduced in a relaxed, convivial atmosphere.
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Within the past three decades, vintners have planted grapes on hills around the area, taking advantage of rich soil, a suitable microclimate and southern-facing slopes.
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The weather pattern then was friendly and vintners timed grape harvesting impeccably.
"It is very difficult for us to fight them, but we're trying to do so, " says Daniel Paszkowski, president of the Canadian Vintners Association.
California vintners, meanwhile, have fermented wines that grabbed the highest rating from the publication six times in the past ten years, while Bordeaux vintners earned just three.
Vintners in the 1870s sold hooch to miners, and again during Prohibition, when bootleggers here ran wine into Los Angeles under the cover of night.
Imagine French vintners granting Coca-Cola distribution rights over their grandscrus.
Wine DNA. Apparently, it's not unknown for underhand vintners to pass off one grape variety as another, and because wine is such a complex beast, how would we ever know?
With a population of just 46, 000 Hattiesburg, Mississippi is not the type of place you might expect to find a major wine festival featuring a huge array of world class vintners.
At the time, American vintners believed that the ruling would help them all expand their business exponentially (a flurry of follow-up lawsuits and lobbying by wholesalers has thrown a spanner in the works).
Just as Jackson has his beefs with jug wine, which has failed to give U.S. wine a good name, so he quarrels with the conceits of the boutique vintners who shrink from scale.
Ms. LINDA REIFF (Executive Director, Napa Valley Vintners): We are aware that our position is different than the governments and than some other American producers, and that is we believe in respecting all wine-growing place names.
The second part of the Malbec story began about 20 years ago, when a number of ambitious vintners that included locals and foreigners from countries like Italy and France decided to rehabilitate the quality and reputation of Argentine wine.
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Secondly, when seeking value it is tempting to look mainly to New World wines, since the best vintners of New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina and South Africa compete with the old heavy hitters like France and Italy mainly on the basis of value proposition.
American vintners have cultivated pinot noir for a century, but only in the last decade have they discovered the best micro-climates for growing it: Oregon's Willamette Valley and a half-dozen California locations, including Carneros in southern Napa and Sonoma counties, and coastal regions near Santa Barbara.
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