VASCM: SCM/CC appellations

[Andrea Kyle]

Josh- I completely agree with you.


Andrea Kyle
Direct to Consumer/Office Manager
Mount Eden Vineyards
22020 Mount Eden Rd
Saratoga, CA 95070
408-867-5832
888-865-9463

-----Original Message-----
From: vascm-bounces at kkn.net [mailto:vascm-bounces at kkn.net] On Behalf Of Josh
Beck
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:45 AM
To: John Bargetto
Cc: Santacruzmountains winegrowers (santacruzmountains at yahoogroups.com);
Santacruzmountains winegrowers (vascm at kkn.net)
Subject: Re: VASCM: SCM/CC appellations

I feel that AVAs ought to be based on similarities in terroir. The Santa
Cruz Mountains is already a pretty large and quite diverse AVA, but it
generally features mountainous, rocky, steep sites. I don't think it shares
much in common with, say, Paso Roblems or Santa Ynez Valley, and I don't
think that inclusion of SCM in the already dilute and pretty meaningless
Central Coast designation would help either AVA.

We currently bottle wines under Santa Cruz Mountains AVA and San Mateo
County AVA and I can't see a situation where we would rather label our wines
as central coast.

Cheers,

Josh Beck
Assistant Winemaker
http://www.rhysvineyards.com



On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM, John Bargetto <jbargetto at bargetto.com>
wrote:
> Dear local winegrowers/winemakers
>
> At the SCMVA meeting last week, I presented a proposal that calls for the
Central Coast vit area to include the SCM.  Presently they are separate
areas.
>
> This would be a long term process (think years) of building consensus 
> and then applying to TTB
>
> The enclosed doc fleshes out the reasoning.
>
> I am looking for a few good hearty people to join me on a committee to
further explore this concept.
>
> If you are interested and/or want to give feedback at this early stage,
please feel free.
>
> Best wishes for the Holiday season,
>
> John
>
> John E. Bargetto
> Director of Winemaking
> Bargetto Winery
> 831.475.2258 Ext.17
> jbargetto at bargetto.com
>
>
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