Napa's Chateau Montelena Sold to Bordeaux's Cos d'Estournel
"This is the ultimate
recognition, that the French are now buying these great California
wineries," said Jon Fredrikson, a wine industry consultant and
publisher of the Gomberg-Fredrikson report"
"It's just evidence of the growing respect for what is being done in America with wine."—Vic Motto
California's winemaking prowess matched that of France and the rest of the world years ago. I wonder if this sale isn't a matter of the French trying to buy back into the quality game?
