Warren Winiarski, owner and founding winemaker of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars in the Napa Valley has sent the following thought-provoking response to our conversations in your turn on the issue of hang time. His perscipacious two lines at the bottom of this plea, too long for your turn, are from Donne, substituting "ripeness" for "love".
David Schildknecht is to be commended for his effort to find a constructive approach to the issues of long hang time from a common sense point of view “drained of conceptual” baggage. (David may have a common sense approach, but it is one accompanied by...