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From: green@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Doug Green)
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Re: Question about California wines
Message-ID: <164@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 12:21:54 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.164
Posted: Sat Jan 18 12:21:54 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jan-86 04:39:05 EST
References: <2786@ut-ngp.UUCP> <528@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Reply-To: green@batcomputer.UUCP (Doug Green)
Followup-To: Varietal wines
Distribution: net.wines
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: Varietal California wines 75%

In article <528@amiga.amiga.UUCP> tomp@stella.UUCP (Tom Pohorsky) writes:
>In article <2786@ut-ngp.UUCP> cgeiger@ut-ngp.UUCP (Charles S. Geiger, Esq.) writes:
>>Why is it that California wines are almost exclusively varietals?
>>...
>>
>>Charles S. Geiger
>>Department of Economics
>>U.T.
>
>  Decent or better California wines are "labeled" as varietal, but as such
>only need to have 51% of that varietal (The laws have changed a little while
>back, and that figure may be upped to 75%).
>...
>       w/condolences...   tomp.
You are right.  That figure is 75% now.