Terroir-izing California wine

So Alice Feiring, in her Op-Ed article, "California wine? Down the drain," on the Golden State's innovative and widely admired wine industry, thinks that "[d]ull, fruit-driven, alcoholic wines have become the incontrovertible wine identity of California." I was immediately reminded of a line from Whit Stillman's 1998 film, "The Last Days of Disco." Young people are bantering on the topic of "yuppies" and whether that's a desirable designation, when one of them says, "Young. Upwardly mobile. Professional. Those are good things, not bad things."

By Matthew DeBord

May 12, 2008