Lum,
What do you think about the shipping of grapes and how it
affects the wine. I know there's no possibility of getting
Napa grapes up here in Eastern Canada but a distributor up
here mentioned that in season he gets truck loads in from
CA every two days. Considering that growers wait until the
right moment and often pick throughout the night how would
the grapes be affected by picking and shipping 3000 miles
by truck?

Don

> Grape prices strongly depend on quality and location of the vineyard. Good
> quality Napa Cabernet sells for about $4000 per ton. But, you will have
> trouble locating a vineyard willing to sell you a half ton.
> lum