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Rutherford Napa Valley’s Cabernet Heartland

Wines & Spirits

December, 2003

The evolution of viticultural areas has proceeded in the same way since the days of Pliny the Elder in ancient Italy, and probably, if we had records to prove it, long before that. It’s deceptively simple. Appellations tend to evolve from large, general areas toward more precise definition and internal differentiation as the result of...