[Growwine] A wine for Canada's 2010 Olympics

[Paul Bulas]

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From: Ryan Daum

But instead, I bet you'll see Osoyoos Laroose or something else that
will remind the world that Canada is still an ex-colony trying to
impress the mother country.



Yup, we just can't seem to shake those allusions to the great wines of elsewhere.  All the money's invested in copying wines here that are made - that have earned acclaim - elsewhere, in different climates.  I've often mused, only half-jokingly, that we need to think in terms of "constructive preferentialism" and build our own wine culture, with grape varieties that work in a given terroir - in B.C. those can surely include viniferas, but in the most general sense, I think they need not be limited to them.
Things shouldn't be all about Meritage and Pinot Noir ...


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