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Default So much for terroir

Steve wrote on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:20:42 +0000:

??>> Steve wrote on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:12:04 +0000:
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??>>>> How far can you "widen the vineyard" to increase
??>>>> production/profits before you dilute the "terroir"?
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SS>>> This article partly addresses your question
SS>>>
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http://www.wine-pages.com/guests/tom...-expansion.htm
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??>> It all sounds very plausible but industrial flacks are
??>> good at that! I will await the rationalizations when the
??>> zone is expanded to include California :-) In some ways, I
??>> was reminded of a common preamble to Vatican announcements
??>> of a radical changes: "As the church has always
said.........".

SS> Are you saying Stevenson is an industrial (industry?)
SS> flack? Why do you think that?

I used to think that Elliot Spitzer was an honest crusader
against fraud too!




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