One handy rule of wine drinking is to steer clear of anything from European cooperatives. Generally speaking, the words ???Cantina Coop. Soc.??? on an Italian label or ???Cave Cooperative??? on a French one are shorthand for muck, indifferently produced by lazy, ill-shaven peasants stultified by government handouts.???
And as with all rules of wine drinking, there is at least one distinguished exception. The Cave de Tain was founded in 1933 by a hundred growers from the district of Tain lHe....
The Merry Drinker
