"James Silverton" > wrote in message
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| pavane wrote on Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:03:21 -0400:
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| > "sf" > wrote in message
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||> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:49:45 -0400, "pavane"
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|| >> Inglenook...sad, sad.
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||> FYI: Inglenook still sells to restaurants for use as house wine.
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| > No, not really. Some people use the "Inglenook" name to
| > identify cheap plonk. The true Inglenook facility was
| > disbanded after it was bought by Hublein in the early 1970's.
| > It now exists as Rubicon, and in some of Francis Ford
| > Coppola's other wines. A very good, also sad article on the
| > transformation:
| > http://www.wineweekly.com/category/winery-profiles/
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| Francis Ford Coppola, as a winemaker, is a good film director.

Also a decent conservator as his purchase of the main house at
Inglenook saved it from almost certain destruction. I believe that
he was also instrumental in the great vineyards not being destroyed
so Hublein could grow more white zin or whatever atrocities they
felt like committing.

Most of his Rubicon bottlings are superb, have you had the
pleasure of having tried them?

pavane