Concern for quality in producing premium red wines is a foremost objective. The road to developing a winery is strewn with obstacles, trials and pitfalls. The authors take the readers through the whole process from applying for governmental permission to marketing the finished product. Once the decision has been made to establish a winery, the first order of business is to acquire the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms application forms. Their stamp of approval is essential if one is to operate an official and legal winery. Once we had retrieved the fat package of forms from the mailbox, we had that sinking feeling that we might be getting in over our heads. Our suspicions were certainly confirmed once we opened it, and leafed through page after page of forms and questions that we could hardly even read or understand. We were tempted to call our lawyer for help, but being stubborn, we thought that we could at least give it a try. We got ourselves a glass of wine - that's what it's all about, right? - and sat down with the task.
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