any consumers realize that we live in a Golden Age – the consumer has never had it so good. We have twenty times the choices we had two decades ago, and the incidence of poor wines has nearly vanished. If what you are after is drinkable quaff, you will find it more consistently and cheaply than ever before. And the New World has learned how to make Big Wines, just as workaday Hollywood now pumps out Action/Adventure blockbusters with machine-like dependability.