So as not to start another thread (although maybe I should have), relief that the Gallo purchase of many low/mid tier Constellation wine brands is now complete, as a most interesting part of the business couldn't be part of the sale. To avoid antitrust concerns, the grape concentrate and high color concentrate (and related products) could not be part of the sale, so another Central Valley company purchased them.

Vie-Del Company (Vie-Del), the oldest family-owned grape processor and supplier of bulk juices, concentrates, brandy, wine and spirits in California, announced today the completion on December 29, 2020 of the acquisition of the Canandaigua Concentrate High-Color Concentrate (HCC) and standard grape concentrate business lines from Constellation Brands U.S. Operations, Inc. (CBUSO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Constellation Brands, Inc. (Constellation). The transaction was approved by the Federal Trade Commission on December 23, 2020.

"Gallo and Constellation are also the country’s two largest producers of high-color concentrates, a grape-based syrup used widely by wineries to adjust the color and flavor of wines. Constellation must now sell its concentrate business to the only other producer of concentrate in the U.S., Vie-Del Co."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/wine/art...s-15848584.php

Yum.

For anyone who still had any doubt about what a farce so much of domestic USA wine is made out of (oh, this vintij, that appulashen), there you go. It isn't that I likely don't drink a fair amount of totally manipulated grape juice when I'm out and about, or refilling the home's "bargain bin," but ... "oh that Syrah is beautiful, and look at the legs on it" probably means "look at that high color concentrate and glycerin soup."