[Sca-cooks] Re: Wine names

[Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au]

Elric wrote:
+Though it is a nice and fairly well mannered wine, actually
+the whole thing
+is a marketing ploy designed to get the yuppies and self defined wine
+"experts" to buy the product. The grape actually orginated in a small
+vineyard in Indiana (where as all wine experts know the are no
+winerys) but
+there are some strange farmers who keep growing weird crops to get
+government subsidies:) Thus the developement of the grape.
+Just think how
+few people would be intersted if they discovered these facts:)
+Not only is
+the basic grape only about twelve years old but they have
+tacked onto it a
+fabulous mystique of being hundreds of years old and posibbly
+of French or
+Persian origin. Why they even have various spellings available so the
+"experts" can argue just which name is the "proper" historical
+identification. You are not supposed to be able to say or
+spell it, thats
+the hook:)

Well that is an interesting tale, but not true either... Grange Hermitage contains Shiraz and goes back way earlier than 12 years. (currently a 1977 is priced at $400 a bottle). In fact the first experimental vintage Grange was done in 1951. That much I do know.

Kiriel