The Winery Review – Fazeli Cellars

The Mystery Wino Special to Valley NewsAfter a mild spring in Temecula wine country, summer has arrived with a vengeance. I hope you are stocking up on your whites and rosés. Remember, friends don’t let friends drink beer.Of course, grapes like the heat. More heat means riper fruit, concentrated flavors and big, bold wines. Long hot days and cool nights helped put northern California on the wine world’s radar back in the mid-1970s. But to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, too much of anything is bad, except when it comes to Champagne. Too much heat causes vines to shut down, inhibiting proper fruit development. The results are often unbalanced, overripe, flabby wines, with high alcohol, low a
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