Each year, Wines & Vines asks farm advisors and other industry professionals to report on the growing season and harvest in North America's major wine producing regions. This year, with a mid-November deadline and grape harvests continuing as late as Thanksgiving in some appellations, our correspondents really extended themselves to provide us with accurate and up-to-date summations of the 2005 vintage.
As veteran grapegrower Robert Steinhauer commented in his role as moderator ...