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mountainman 
Mammoth Mountain
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 | | 02-14-2006 10:16 PM |
| I forgot, what is the bottle % of CS needed to be called a bottle of cabernet sauvignon in California? 85? | | |
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JonesWineNo1
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| | mountainman
Mammoth Mountain
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| | 02-14-2006 10:26 PM |
| thank you | | | |
| David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
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| | 02-14-2006 11:34 PM |
| You mean no one is going to argue this one?  | | | |
| Bob Bressler
Napa Valley
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| | 02-15-2006 01:01 AM |
| oh, all right, if you have to have an argument, it is 75% of that year's Cabernet. That is, if you blend back a little of the next year's cab - even though it is cab, it doesn't count. | |
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| Dave Tong
Santa Clara, CA
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| | 02-15-2006 01:12 AM |
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oh, all right, if you have to have an argument, it is 75% of that year's Cabernet. That is, if you blend back a little of the next year's cab - even though it is cab, it doesn't count.
Really? I never thought about it before.
So you're saying that a wine that was 70% 2002 Cabernet, 15% 2002 other varietals and 15% other vintage Cabernet could not legally be labelled Cabernet even though it contained >75% Cab, though presumably it could legally be labelled 2002 vintage? | | | http://scmwine.blogspot.com - My wine blog.<br>http://scmwine.wikispaces.com - your guide to the Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley<br> | |
| skwid
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| | 02-15-2006 01:18 AM |
| Currently to be a vintage wine the wine must contain 95% of the listed vintage. Some folks want to reduce this number. | | | |
| Dave Tong
Santa Clara, CA
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| | 02-15-2006 01:33 AM |
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Currently to be a vintage wine the wine must contain 95% of the listed vintage. Some folks want to reduce this number.
You're right. 85% is the percentage of varietal in Australia and most other countries.
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So you're saying that a wine that was 70% 2002 Cabernet, 25% 2002 other varietals and 5% other vintage Cabernet could not legally be labelled Cabernet even though it contained >75% Cab, though presumably it could legally be labelled 2002 vintage?
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| Joseph Filippi
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| | 05-07-2006 04:50 AM |
| that wine can be called a 2002 Cabernet | | | |
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