You are quite right Brian , that to make great wine you need to concentrate on the vineyard. As with all food and drink, it's hard to make an excellent finished product with poor quality raw ingredients.
Concerned to see in the Guardian this morning that the wine growers all over France are struggling against heavy frosts, made worse by the fact that March's warm weather means that the shoots were unusually well advanced. Many vines are badly damaged.
It's a risky business.
