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Beckstoffer Touts Vineyard-specific Wines as the “Next Level” for Napa

Weekly Calistogan

December 9, 1999

Featuring vineyard ‘terroir’ IS the next level in winemaking.

Winemakers and wine writers like to dazzle their respective audiences with flowery language and foreign phrases, most often used in describing the myriad and marvelous, or in some cases miserable, characteristics of a particular wine. Grape growers tend to be earthier types — with their hands in the soil and their eye on the taste...