Unnamed Winemaker
Appearances
Blood Vines
Hangover: 7
In Italy, there's a tradition during the harvest to bless the loads of grapes. And Fred Frangia kind of adopted that tradition, but his was a little different. So a load of grapes would come in, and they would be non-Zinvendel. And he would sprinkle some Zinvendel leaves on the loads and basically bless them and transform them thereby into Zinvendel.
Blood Vines
Hangover: 7
I think we were sold a bill of goods. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't have done it.
Blood Vines
Hangover: 7
Ultimately, I think we wound up prosecuting about 17 individuals and four or five wineries.
Blood Vines
Hangover: 7
I think it hopefully satisfied the honest growers out there that there's somebody out there who's monitoring the situation. And I hope it also had some kind of deterrent effect on those who might have been thinking about committing the same type of crime.
Blood Vines
Hangover: 7
Any winemaker worth his salt is going to go out and check the field out and it should be part of the grape growing process. Because as Peterson says, You know, it's a different world that we live in now than it was in kind of the go-go 80s.