Sunday, September 13, 2009

Selecting the '09 grapes

Bernardo is wanting to go back to CA grapes.

Steve & Lori both want to hold off on LI grapes until we see where the Cab S. is at next year, and want to go with either CA or WA grapes. More on that, below.

Peter doesn't seem to be as focused on the source of the grapes as the method for gathering them - does not want to do the multi-hour in each direction drive thing.

Re CA grapes:
We've made pretty good wine from the Central Valley grapes we've purchased from Lapide. There are better growing regions to buy grapes from, both CA and WA, at higher cost. Do we want to pursue that? M&M (Hartford) has grapes from 7 WA AVAs and from 8 CA regions (including Central Valley).

Anyone closer sell non CV CA grapes?
I've checked the listings for the Bronx Terminal market, and wine grapes are not included at all. The other provider at the Brooklyn Market is TP&S Winegrapes, Inc.: 718-209-4108.
M&M deliver?

We need to decide very soon.

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