Contrast that to the ‘97 Mount Eden Chard we had in January. It was some peoples’ favorite wine on the table at a dinner the '82 Mouton Rothschild and '76 Yquem weren’t in everybody’s top 5. Amazing at peak wine.
Again, you can look back to classic Napa Chards from the '70s and early '80s and some are still doing very well. It’s sort of like wine’s success for thousands of years is because grapes naturally have what it takes to make good wine. That when you go too far manipulating that to pander to critics and the bigger-is-better crowd, you throw away essential quality. I’ll take the sportscar over the Humvee any day.