VASCM: SCM/CC appellations

[Cliff Gardner]

FYI both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispa Counties are the southern 
most counties in the Central Coast AVA, and wineries in those counties 
sell wines with Central Coast AVA designation for a lot more than $10 
per.

On Dec 14, 2011, at 10:42 AM, jrawlsky at cruzio.com wrote:

>> Central Coast to me is code for $10-15 wine, Hwy 101 comes to mind. I
> suspect is the same for many.
> John, BAD IDEA!!
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> Douglas Feinsod
> SantaCruzVintageCycles.com     (and wine)
> 831-588-7975
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> Josh- I completely agree with you.
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>> Andrea Kyle
>> Direct to Consumer/Office Manager
>> Mount Eden Vineyards
>> 22020 Mount Eden Rd
>> Saratoga, CA 95070
>> 408-867-5832
>> 888-865-9463
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>> -----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
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> Josh Beck
>> Assistant Winemaker
>> http://www.rhysvineyards.com
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>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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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