Fruit Fly Trouble 132I think people worry too much about vinegar infection. It is easy to start vinegar with a...
One other think I would like to add. The only way you are going to make a "Bordeaux" is to go to Bordeaux. This is not saying that you can not make an excellent wine as good as or perhaps better than the average "Bordeaux".
I have been on a mission here in Maryland for wineries to name their blends after the American Viticulture Area (AVA) in which they get their grapes and in which they are located. Maryland has three AVA and the state is doing extensive research on delineating the best areas. Other AVAs may follow. So far, I have met a lot of resistance of naming blends after the AVA in which they are grown. I guess tradition is not easy to overcome. People would either like to name the wine after themselves or some other obnoxious name such as Road Kill Red (not a real name - just an example.
I name my blend (A Bordeaux style blend) Catoctin because I live in and grow my grapes in the Catoctin AVA. One member of the Maryland grape growers buttociation said I might face LEGAL problems if I sold my wine because there is a winery named Catoctin BUT this winery is NOT in the Catoctin AVA. I name my wine after the AVA. I am not calling my home winery Catoctin I am naming my wine Catoctin.
There is also a Linganore Winery located in the Linganore AVA but they do not name their blend(s) Linganore.
I would like to know what other think of the idea of naming their blends after the AVA similiar to the way France names their blends such as Bordeaux and Burgandy after the AVA or in their case it is know as an Appellation.
