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“From an industry that produced ‘Model-T’ wines barely three decades ago have come incredibly interesting wines. Many of them have literally challenged the world’s best.

But for all my enthusiasm, I can’t help but retain a latent feeling of gloom. I worry about the American wine audience. It is so new, so young, so interested in just tasting and drinking and not in appreciating. There aren’t enough people around who will stand up for better wine.

If the consumer does not speak out, if the wine industry goes on unchecked, uncontrolled, and unknowing, we will all be drinking Chevrolet’s and Fords, perhaps at reasonable prices (although I doubt that), but certainly without any reasonable hope of complexity, depth of flavor, or lingering finish in our wines.”

-Nathan Chroman. The Treasury of American Wines, 1976, pg 203.

What do you think? Was he right?