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Feature Article
Arise, Muscat lovers! Let us all hail an often unfairly disparaged grape that dates back to Biblical times and makes award-winning wine today.
Confessions of an IMU: A Call to Arms
Why has one of the most versatile grapes in the world been so frowned upon? Unjustified snobbishness for one.
But that prejudice is about to change if the IMUs have anything to say about it.
by
Roger Dial
October 11, 2007
Don’t ask me why I am confessing now. It’s not that I’ve changed my views after all these years. I am as committed now as I was when I joined forty-odd years ago. Nor am I unaware of the danger of going public – of coming out of the cellar, so to speak. The enemy – the SAMs – are stronger than ever and this confession might well be my oenological obituary. But one can’t go on forever leading this double life – a SAM by day; an IMU by night.
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