A Sea of Wine

Funny . . . Of course I instantly went to the Dry Stack Winery web-site and see that they have had to change their name - now Grey Stack. You're not the only one who choked on that name - so did Dry Sack Sherry.

Hadn't heard of Complete Idiots Guide . . . we'll all look forward to your review.

Sauvignon blanc eh? Sure why not!

Talk about karma. I've been stewing about this Dry Stack thing for a while. I figured there's probably little we could do anyway without spending a ton of money to fight it. Now, Dry Sack Sherry solved it for me. Thanks Dry Sack! And, thanks Russell!

possibly the worst winery names I've heard in my short life.

There is a folkloric scene in the classic Cervantes novel about Quijote, in which a sleepy hero somehow enters the store room of the road house where he is lodging, in the dark of late night, and begins to sword fight with the suspended goatskins of new wine, each of which holds about 46 liters [see footnote].

A secret jewel in a neighborhood I learned on a foreign journey was a restaurant which had preserved that age old practice, of ordering its table wine in adult goatskins of 46 liters, called odres. Every few months the restaurant would be out of red table wine altogether, while it waited for the filled skins to arrive from remote mountain vineyards.

Maybe that is something like a dry stack. Tom's book looks intriguing, as well. Everything you ever wanted to know about managing a wine estate.

I am glad the upstart winery changed its name, too, the dispute seemed to create an image of Jesse and Ernesto arguing about chardonnay in an oak foliage adorned 750ml, it fooled me once when I left the eyeglasses in the car, but, who would they call as an expert shopper witness?
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Here is a link to an ecclectic literature publication with a rendering of the three slain no longer dry stack skins each still with some part of their original 46 L of table wine: http://www.editorialalaire.com/articulo/175/el-vino-y-don-quijote

Hustler, I couldn't agree more!

John, thanks for sharing.

Even though the economy is bad wine is still "cool" and people think that anyone can enter the wine biz.

Hate to see short time buzz prop up a bunch of soon to fade vineyards all the while they are collectively taking a small piece of the pie from the steady consistent wine producers we all care about.