date:Sep 19, 2012
Anderson Valley, though, what became clear was that the incursion of big North Coast names is creating a stark divide in style.
Nothing wrong with a bit of viticultural carpetbagging where Anderson Valley is concerned - some of its finest examples have come from outsiders like Williams Selyem and Littorai - but the wines that are intended for a tasting-room shelf in Napa, as one person put it, aren't doing the rural Mendocino stretches of Highway 128 any favors. (One exception worth noting is T