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Old Aug 3, 2009, 3:30 pm
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rjque
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Originally Posted by Gaucho100K
the guys making juice in Oakville prefer to say Oakville..... sure, Napa is Napa but while some things are sometimes equal.... some are more equal than others....

BTW, in the wine biz..... grapes planted just across the street from one given plot, even if the soil and climate are 100% the same can be worth 20x more just because they are on the 'right' side of the street.... hence the importance of 'sub-regions' inside given areas.
Absurdities like that are one of the reasons I try to buy wine from the 'wrong' side of the street. (Assuming, of course, a competent wine maker knows what to do with the grapes).
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