The US Department of the Treasury's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau conferred upon Coombsville the honour of appellation status, making it the valley's 16th AVA. The petition, co-authored by vintners Tom Farella and Brad Kitson, took a little over 2 years to be approved by the federal government (your tax dollars at work).
So to celebrate Vinomaker and I are going to imbibe in a little something from a Coombsville winery, a 2008 Black Cat Vineyard Syrah, and toast our good fortune in having Vinoland recognised by Uncle Sam.
Now, let's see what this does to land and grape prices!
5 comments:
Has anybody told the grapes...or skypilot?
Thud: Unfortunately, our mutual friend finds himself sans grapes these days. I shall try to find out what he thinks about this turn of events!
He will just know its a conspiracy.
TTB seems to have taken a primer course on AVA (DOC) systems from Italy!
Yes, the Italians have viticultural red tape down to a fine art.
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