August 18, 2022

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Number of American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) in California, more than any other state. September is California Wine Month. The US has a total of 258 AVAs which are approved by the TTB, (Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.) Law requires that 85% of grapes must come from within the AVA for a wine to be labeled with that designation.

What Makes Great Wines Great? Part Two: Precision

“Age gives a wine a sense of beauty and satisfaction that it could never have had before when it was young. In our minds, we intuit that beauty and satisfaction as a feeling of completeness. Because so much of life is incomplete, an old wine is remarkable and moving.”

—Warren Winiarski,
founder of Napa Valley’s Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars

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