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Feature Article
What happened to the individual terroir characteristics in Napa Cabs? Now it seems that if a Cabernet label has a Napa address that is enough no matter where in the Valley it comes from.
Is the Regional Distinctiveness of Wine a Thing of the Past?
Napa is the brand. That’s the Vintners’ main goal. Protect Napa. Napa is ‘wine country,’ Napa makes the best Cabernet in the world, and Napa is the only thing you need to know if you’re talking about wine.
~Anonymous Napa vintner
by
Dan Berger
March 5, 2007
Two decades ago, wine lovers were treated, if that’s the correct word, to a debate among many of the world’s wine experts regarding the real meaning of “Rutherford Bench.” This area of the world was supposedly real, not mythical, but was definitely an ill-defined area of the Napa Valley that supposedly delivered a Cabernet Sauvignon of such distinctive character that Rutherford Bench was rated as a valuable commodity on a wine label.
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