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Wine & Spirits

July, 1994

Estate bottled wine has, until recently, been regarded as a promise of quality. But the definition of the relationship between winery and vineyard is increasingly a matter of controversy.

Wine bottled by vineyard owners in their own cellars has always been regarded as a guarantee of authenticity and often of wine quality, whether it is called mis en bouteille an domaine, as in France, Erzeugerabfüllung in Germany, or estate-bottled in the US. This cachet of quality or assumed quality has lost a good bit...