Strength In Numbers

摘要

IT WAS just a few years ago, after weathering several years of mediocre winegrape prices, that Duff Bevill had an epiphany of sorts. "I go into the supermarket and see all these wine bottles with kangaroos on the labels, and they're beating our pantsoff," says the Sonoma County, CA, winegrape grower. "But this was at 10 dollar (a bottle), and we can't afford to be growers and sell grapes that go into a 10 dollar bottle; the cost of land and operations here is just too high."