Wine Institute would like to lower the standards

Interesting developments may follow the news that Wine Institute is looking into lowering the percentage of grapes required to come from the vintage year shown on a bottle of wine from 95 percent to 85 percent.

Speculating about the driving force behind the Wine Institute's push for a reduced percentage, Beckstoffer said, "I think (large wineries) have a lot of old inventories they can't sell. They made more wine they can sell and now they want to blend it into the new vintages. It's a short term solution that has long term major impacts on the growers."

Read the article in NapaNews.com