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Feature Article
The part that's missing: the proposed Calistoga AVA is the long missing piece in the Napa Valley AVA map.
The Struggles Of Government Sanctioned Wine Regions
The proposed Calistoga AVA has challenged everybody concerned with it: the affected wineries, the Napa Valley Vintners, the Federal government, California, and indirectly every other American AVA.
by
Alan Goldfarb
April 14, 2009
espite a new administration in Washington whose chief of staff is a signatory to a letter supporting the proposed Calistoga appellation, there has been no hint of a resolution to the donnybrook that’s been ongoing for more than five years. Thus, there still is no Calistoga American Viticultural Area (AVA), despite the fact that Bo Barrett of Chateau Montelena– who fosters the 15th sub-appellation to Napa Valley – told this writer at the end of September of 2003 (the year of application) that “I can’t imagine anyone contesting it. It’ll probably be the least controversial (AVA) they’ve (the Tax and Trade Bureau) ever did (sic).”
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